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Ukraine is the bedrock of the WEF’s Great Reset 'Digital EID Wallet' experimentation. Blueprint for the West.
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Mykhailo Federov is Vice Prime Minister & Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine. The youngest minister in the history of Ukrainian politics, at the age of just 30 he succeeded with opening his own businesses as well as with leading the country's digital revolution.
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His most important project is the "state in a smartphone", which aims by 2024 to have 100% of all government services available online, with 20% of services provided automatically without the intervention of an official.
weforum.org/people/mykhail…
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Mykhailo Fedorov, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, was a panellist at the WEF “Scaling Up Digital Identity Systems” session. He shared Ukraine’s progress in digitalization of governmental services.
weforum.org/event_player/a…
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The technology for digital identities is being used in several countries around the world. One of the most ambitious countries in this regard is Ukraine.
“Our goal is to enable all life situations with this Digital ID” - Mykhailo Fedorov said.
sociable.co/government-and…
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Speaking in the same panel discussion Mykhailo Fedorov said that his government’s goal was to create a digital ID system that within three years would make Ukraine the most convenient State in the world by operating like a digital service provider.
kmu.gov.ua/en/news/mihajl…
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“[Ukraine] President Zelensky has tasked our ministry within three years to create one of the most convenient States in the world in terms of the State as a service provider,” said Fedorov.
restofworld.org/2021/inside-uk…
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He added, “The Ukrainian Parliament has also adopted a draft law making us one of the first countries to legalize E digital passports, which means an ‘equal sign’ between plastic or paper passports and IDs & Digital IDs, and now they’re accessible in all life situations.”
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“People have no choice but to trust technology” — Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s Minister of Digital Transformation also said.
sociable.co/government-and…
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When it comes to winning trust in government-run digital identity schemes, Fedorov believes that if you give the people an overwhelming amount of convenience that is accompanied by strong cybersecurity, then they will have no choice but to trust the technology.
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“The pandemic has accelerated our progress. First, people are really now demanding digital, online services. People have no choice but to trust technology. We see what kind of business is developing & this business is influencing the development of our services.” He said.
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“We have to make a product that is so convenient that a person will be able to disrupt their stereotypes, to breakthrough from their fears, and start using a government-made application” - Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s Minister of Digital Transformation.
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“When we allow a person to register a business in three clicks; when we allow them to pay their taxes in two clicks — no matter how sceptical a person is about the technology, they will start using our services.” - He said.
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“Our goal is to enable all life situations with this digital ID,” - Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s Minister of Digital Transformation.
Over 50 government services are available online through this EID.
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Taking the lead internally, the Ministry of Digital Transformation has the ambition to make Ukraine a world champion in being digital, and we are already the first ones who can use digital IDs with no internal restrictions.
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Diia ID 2.0 allows Ukrainians to access 9 digital documents (ID card, foreign biometric passport, student card, driver’s license, vehicle registration certificate, vehicle insurance policy, tax number, birth certificate, IDP certificate)
biometricupdate.com/202004/ukraini…
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Ukraine has become the first country with a digital ID that is valid and can be used everywhere within the country and the fourth in Europe to launch a digital driving licence & they want to digitise 100% of all state services.
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The government also presented Diia City, a large-scale project which would establish a virtual model of a free economic zone for representatives of the creative economy. It would provide for special digital residency with taxation regimes.
city.diia.gov.ua/en
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The Digital ID Services in "Diia": also features sole proprietors, vaccination, electronic passport and Ukrainian Covid Certificates.
visitukraine.today/blog/42/ukrain…
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Banking too: "Mykhailo Fedorov received his first ID-card and immediately tested a new function in Diia - NFC authorization. This is a revolutionary function that is not available in the world yet," the Ministry of Digital Transformation said.
en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/7…
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A 'New World Order'. International Economic Forum.
Ukraine is proud of its achievements in the field of digitalization. Thus, according to Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine is a world leader in the digital transformation of the public sector.
ufuture.com/a-new-world-or…
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At this event: Chandran Nair (WEF), one of the leading thinkers of our time, an entrepreneur and president of the World Institute of the Future, noted that the world is moving towards a post-Western order and Ukraine is a big part of this.
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More recently:
The Ukrainian Vice Prime Minister Called on Crypto Exchanges to Ban Russian Users. However Binance and Kraken have rejected Ukrainian Vice Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov's request to ban Russian users from crypto exchanges.
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Mykhailo Fedorov said he is grateful to Swiss development partners for supporting digitalization in Ukraine. The Ministry of Digital Transformation cooperates with Swiss Confederation through the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (WEF).
weforum.org/organizations/…
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Klaus Schwab Founder of the World Economic Forum & Børge Brende President have both said that they have lent their full support to Ukraine, promising to do “everything possible to help” the country against Russia “aggression.”
weforum.org/agenda/2022/02…
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Mykhailo Fedorov has been urging chief executives of big businesses to cut ties with Moscow. He's also taken the unprecedented move of setting up a volunteer "IT Army of Ukraine" to launch cyber-attacks against "the enemy".
bbc.co.uk/news/technolog…
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