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In Ukraine, the process of digitalisation continues, even under cruise missile attack

March 29, 2022 April 5, 2022

Ukraine has vowed to make Russia pay for the economic damage caused by its invasion, with the total cost to the economy currently estimated at $564.9 billion. The government has also announced new support for internally displaced people, powered by its groundbreaking Diia public service app. The assistance will be available through the Ukrainian government’s …

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Zelensky signs Diia City bill to change taxation for tech firms

December 19, 2021 January 19, 2022

President Volodymyr Zelensky on Dec. 18 signed bill №5676 creating a special taxation system for tech firms. Approved by the parliament on Dec. 14, this is the second of three laws that are necessary to create the Diia City system. Diia City is a collection of tax, employment and legal benefits that Ukrainian and foreign IT firms …

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State in a smartphone: Inside Ukraine’s effort to replace bureaucracy with an app

June 22, 2021 November 10, 2021

When Volodymyr Zelensky ran for the presidency in 2019, he promised to change the tone of Ukrainian politics, which continued to be mired incorruption and backroom deals. One of his key focuses was on using technology to improve both the reality of day-to-day life and Ukraine’s image abroad under the motto of a “state in …

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Ukrainian digital ID cards and passports legally equated to ordinary ones

April 9, 2021 April 9, 2021

On March 30, the Ukrainian parliament passed a bill equating digital ID cards and passports to ordinary ones. The new legislation will come to force in August this year. Launched via the Diia e-government app in April 2020, digital IDs have been used only experimentally so far. Under the new legislation, the digital documents will …

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Ukrainian government launches digital literacy platform

January 25, 2020 January 28, 2020

On Jan. 21, the Ukrainian government launched a test version of a national program of promoting digital literacy, “Diya. Digital Education.” “We are making another important step towards overcoming digital inequality,” Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk said in a statement. The platform offers digital literacy education in the form of free series where an expert and a celebrity …

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Ukrainian administration aims to move online to “become a service, not a scary monster”

November 5, 2019 November 5, 2019

Following a presidential decree signed in July, the newly-formed Ministry of Digital Transformation has launched an ambitious plan to make all public services available online in a mere few years. A unified e-government portal, christened ‘Diia,’ is scheduled for launch in February 2020 with a first set of online services. The project — formally headed …

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Zelensky issues decree to boost e-government services

August 1, 2019 August 5, 2019

Paper pushers could face extinction in Ukraine very soon, thanks to a July 29 decree signed by President Volodymyr Zelensky to make all government services electronic and online. The decree specifies 11 steps for the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine to roll out such e-services for Ukrainians. It includes auditing all the country’s registers, making them …

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Battling red tape: Estonia’s e-government success to help Ukraine fight ‘spravka culture’

July 4, 2019 July 9, 2019

Waiting for his flight at the airport in Frankfurt, Estonian Ragnar Saas decided it was high time to start a business. He took his laptop out, filled out several forms, signed them, and paid a fee — all online. It took him 15 minutes to become a businessman. Saas could do that because his native …

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Ukrainian entrepreneurs among top users of Estonian e-Residency program

February 5, 2018 February 6, 2018

In 2014, Estonia launched a unique program to help non-EU entrepreneurs gain access to global markets. Based on the most recent data, Ukrainians are among the major users of it. Oleg Gutsol, a Ukrainian-born Canadian and former Head of Global Growth for the e-Residency program, said, “Ukraine was the first country that we focused on.” …

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New incubator to support Open Data projects amid weak social demand

January 19, 2016 January 25, 2016

The ‘1991 Open Data Incubator,’ Ukraine’s first incubator for Open Data projects, was launched last week by SocialBoost, a tech NGO, in partnership with the Ukrainian government, Western NIS Enterprise Fund and Microsoft Ukraine. The incubator aims to create socially-oriented services and applications based on government open data. Its website is available only in Ukrainian. The project is a contribution to improving the economy and …

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Dmytro Shymkiv, Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration: “We want the high-tech sector to become one of the pillars of this country’s future”

December 17, 2015 December 18, 2015

A technology entrepreneur with a rich background in Ukraine, Europe and the USA, Dmytro Shymkiv headed Microsoft Ukraine when he was appointed to the Presidential Administration in the months that followed the Maidan revolution. He shared with Ukraine Digital News his vision of Ukraine as a country of innovators and analyzes Ukraine’s first steps on the …

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Homegrown software helps reduce corruption in public procurement

December 8, 2015 December 8, 2015

Overseen by officials looking for kickbacks, Ukraine’s old, flesh, bones and paper system of procurement whittled away on average about $2.3 billion a year due to shady schemes. That’s 20% of taxpayers’ money that the government allocates to buying goods, labor and services for public needs. To put a plug in that corrupt drain, the …

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