Міністерствоцифрової трансформаціїУкраїни

Ukraine and Estonia will develop, improve and expand cooperation between the two countries in the field of digital transformation. One of the first steps is to collaborate on the development of Diia-based app for Estonia. Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation will consult Estonian colleagues and share their experience implementing user-centric public services.

Today, the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications of the Republic of Estonia signed a Memorandum of Cooperation in the field of digital transformations.

"Estonia was the first country whose example we followed when we just started establishing the Ministry of Digital Transformation. Their vision of digital transformation and the creation of a digital state inspired and inspires us to launch services in a few clicks. It is very nice that now Estonia will be able to adopt our mobile first-state experience, where all important data and services are right in the smartphone," said Vice Prime Minister - Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine Mykhailo Fedorov.

The sides aim to develop and launch a pilot application in the next four months, that is, by the end of the year. Ukraine and Estonia have a very similar digital state architecture. Therefore, most of our developments and services are easy to adapt in Estonia.

“Ukraine sees Estonia as the key partner in developing its digital government, as we are one of the most innovative and developed digital societies in the world. Estonia is happy promote the integration of Ukrainian digital services with Europe, supporting their cyber capability and continued work on the creation of a digital state. Estonia and Ukraine have learned a lot from each other in the course of cooperation, which has increased our preparedness for crises,” Minister of Business and Information Technology of Estonia Kristian Järvan.

Estonia is among the leading countries in terms of digitalization and Ukraine relies massively on the Estonian x-Road registry integration solution. Now Estonia is interested in Ukrainian experience and mobile-first approach.

“In the last five years, Ukraine has built a powerful digital state, which follows Estonia’s lead in many ways. Ukraine’s data exchange layer  Trembita was developed by the Estonian company Cybernetica and is very similar to our X-Road. Ukraine has also relied on our experience in creating its digital identity and many sector-specific services. We in turn have much to learn from Ukraine, whose new services are user-friendly and mobile-based. During thе war, Ukrainians have demonstrated incredible agility, creating completely new e-services within days and weeks,” said Luukas Kristian Ilves.