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Microsoft Ukraine GM joins presidential administration to carry out reforms

July 15, 2014

Microsoft Ukraine general manager Dmitry Shimkiv, who was an active participant in the Maidan Revolution, was appointed deputy head of the presidential administration for administrative, social and economic reform last week. According to Ukrainian media, Shimkiv’s first task in his new post will be to reform the structure of the presidential administration so as to …

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Association agreement shows strong EU commitment to high tech cooperation; local businesses have mixed reactions

July 10, 2014

Hopes, fears and expectations are high in Ukraine following the signature of the association agreement with the European Union (EU) in late June. The science, research and innovation sectors, as well as high-tech investment and e-commerce, are no exceptions, since they are directly or indirectly impacted by important sections of the economic part of the …

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Ukrainian players respond: How the association agreement will impact the country’s IT, e-commerce and startup industries

July 10, 2014

Following the signature of the EU-Ukraine association agreement in late June, six figures of the Ukrainian high tech industry – EastLabs CEO Eveline Butchaskiy, Bionic Hill CEO Victor Galasyuk, Alexandr Ladyvir of Nova Poshta, UADM President Valentin Kalashnik, N-IX founder Andrew Pavliv, AVentures Capital’s Yevgen Sysoyev and TA Venture’s Viktoriya Tigipko – have shared with Ukraine Digital News their views on the …

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Ukraine wants to lessen reliance on foreign software and develop local IT industry

July 10, 2014

On July 3rd, the Ukrainian parliament voted to recommend that the national government cease using Russian-created software in state agencies. The move is billed as being in the interests of national security, as software created in Russia may carry cyber threats, Ukrainian lawmakers believe. The bill, which was proposed by MPs Oleksandr Mochkov from Udar …

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Sergiy Tigipko: Ukrainian IT market could increase to $10 billion a year with state support

May 21, 2014

State support in Ukraine would boost the market for IT services to $10 billion a year, said Ukrainian lawmaker and presidential candidate Sergiy Tigipko. “Today Ukraine is manufacturing $1.5 billion worth of IT products for export annually and that market is growing by 30%. Therefore, if we create incentives, in the next two or three …

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Virgin boss Richard Branson backs Ukraine’s IT industry

May 1, 2014

A plan by a group of IT entrepreneurs in Ukraine to help the nation’s economy grow during and after the current political crisis has received backing from Virgin boss Richard Branson. In March 2014, the Ukrainian IT industry set out a list of actions the new national government should take to protect the sector amid political …

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Ukraine wants to become the Silicon Valley of Europe

April 30, 2014

In the last few months, the United States has pledged to Ukraine outspoken support, military food rations, and $1 billion. But what Ukraine could really use during its standoff with Russia, its officials say, is help from American information technology companies. The Ukrainian Embassy in the U.S. has launched a campaign aimed at Western businesses, urging …

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Russia seeks to develop startup industry in Crimea

April 25, 2014

The Internet Initiatives Development Fund (IIDF, or FRII in Russian), a government-backed fund supporting startup development, will open a remote regional accelerator in Sevastopol, Crimea, as soon as this summer, the Russian business daily Kommersant reported last week. The fund is expecting to support five to seven projects, which will be evaluated on the local and national levels. Funding …

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“IT outsourcing for democracy” – Ukraine launches promotion campaign in the US

April 20, 2014

The Ukrainian Embassy to the United States will begin a campaign to support IT outsourcing to the country during its crisis with Russia. The slogan of the campaign, set to begin with an event at Ukrainian embassy in Washington, D.C. on April 29, is “Increase Profits. Support Democracy. Cloudsource to Ukraine.” IT outsourcing has become …

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Ukrainian IT community calls for government reforms to help create innovative Ukraine

March 27, 2014

Yevgen Sysoyev and Eugene Leng, partners of Ukrainian VC fundAVentures Capital have led the working group that prepared a proposal for Ukrainian government to boost its innovation industry called Strategic National Project “Innovation Ukraine”. In an open letter, which also included names of the working group members – representatives of Internet, Outsourcing and IT community of …

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Polish government announces $100 million fund to support Ukrainian small companies

March 25, 2014

Poland is to put $100 million (300 million zloty) into supporting small Ukrainian companies, which will obviously include tech companies by implication, and allow more Ukrainian companies to list on its stock exchange. “We do this to support the new Ukrainian industry, new business and build a new middle class,” President Bronislaw Komorowski told Polish newspaper …

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Ukraine after the crisis: Moving to a knowledge-based economy – an invitation to act now

March 6, 2014

Dear Mr. Sheremeta, I would like to extend this invitation to you, as a representative of the government, to have a meeting with “IT Ukraine” association using this document as the agenda. We should immediately establish a working group to transform these ideas into concrete plans that can be put into action right away. As …

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