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 …
Ukraine wants to become the Silicon Valley of Europe Read More
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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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 …
“IT outsourcing for democracy” – Ukraine launches promotion campaign in the US Read More
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 …
Ukrainian IT community calls for government reforms to help create innovative Ukraine Read More
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 …
Polish government announces $100 million fund to support Ukrainian small companies Read More
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 …
Ukraine after the crisis: Moving to a knowledge-based economy – an invitation to act now Read More
