🚨 EXCL: The UK Govt are co-funding technical assistance & continued development of Ukraine's controversial Diia app through the Eurasia Foundation & its 'Transparency and Accountability in Public Administration and Services' (TAPAS).
TAPAS or 'Transparency & Accountability in Public Administration & Services', is a seven-year, $43 million 'anti-corruption activity' in #Ukraine funded by USAID & UK Aid (2016-2024).
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Diia (Дія) meaning 'action' or Держава і Я (State & Me) was first presented in 2019 & officially launched in early 2020.
Most of its now 130 e-gov services were developed from UK & USAID through the Eurasia Foundation who are also recipients of funding from George Soros' OSF.
Throughout #COVID19 & the ongoing conflict with #Russia, Diia has been mired in controversy.
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Former US Ambassador to the UN & now Administrator of USAID, Samantha Power, announced at a glitzy event in DC on May 31st that "countries around the world will soon follow Diia’s lead".
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Visa executive chair Al Kelly explaining how his company supported the Diia app incentivising Ukrainians to receive COVID jabs which also provided other targeted payments providing one had a ‘Green Pass’ ✅
Diia is a full on state-snitching app for its citizens:
"e-Enemy. A chatbot that helps any citizen safely transfer info on the location of Russian troops, names of collaborators..."
(Credit: @MaxBlumenthal)
In October 2022, a hacker in the now closed 'Breached Forums' claimed to have compromised an undisclosed amount of sensitive data from Diia, containing the email, name, DOB, address & passport numbers of citizens.
Diia continues to be hailed as a model in e-governance with USAID leading the drive to implement 'Diia-like' schemes elsewhere & to 'develop a one-stop-shop app for government services.'
The question is, do you really want something like Diia in your country? We hope not.
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