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Digital transformation and reskilling are challenges during the best of times, but Ukraine’s wartime achievements with technology deployment for its citizenry are a unique success story.
Despite the full-scale Russian invasion, which happened nearly four years ago and continues to this day, the Ukrainian government has continued working towards President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s goal of building a “state in a smartphone,” an aim that has now evolved to becoming an “agentic state” as artificial intelligence advances.
The government is doing this via Diia, an integrated digital platform and super app, with access to streamlined public services, business resources, and digital literacy education.
“Our main goal is to make sure that every Ukrainian is competitive, has a high-paying job and is successful in life,” said Valeriya Ionan, advisor to Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s First Deputy Prime Minister for Innovation, Education, Science and Technology. Ionan spearheads the free edutainment platform Diia.Education.
