Ukraine Development Gateway Project

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Ukraine Development Gateway Project
Presentation on the occasion of launching the
Project Demo site Kyiv, June 11th, 2000
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Stakeholders of the Ukraine Development Gateway
Project

• Initiators and partners of the project
• Ministry of Economy
• World Bank
• UNDP
• Project team
• Victor Bekh (Project Manager)
• Andrew Krasnopoyas (Deputy Project Manager)
• Valentine Dragan (Strategy Coordinator)
• Victoria Siryachenko (Partnership Coordinator)

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Background of the project

• November, 1999 World Bank started the project
• April, 2000 Ukrainian Government, World
  Bank, and UNDP signed a Memorandum
• May, 2000 Strategy, content, partnership,
  and technology project groups started
  their work
• June, 2000 Opening of Ukraine Development
  Gateway portal

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Project mission and specific objectives

• Project mission
• To unite and coordinate through the Internet
  the efforts of Government, Private Sector,
  International Organizations, and Civil Society in
  accelerating economic, social, and cultural
  development of Ukraine.

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Project mission and specific objectives

• Project specific objectives
• Reduce the digital divide between Ukraine and
  broad international community
• Catalyze development of the new economy
• Use the best world practice in economic and
  social development of the country
• Use the portal as a starting point in
  disseminating information about Ukraine

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Partnership strategy

• Partnership is essential for success of the
  project
• The project engages the following groups of
  partners
• Public Sector
• Private Sector
• International Organizations
• Civil Society
• The project implies elaboration of individual
  partnership strategy for every target group

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Public Sector
using Internet
Openness and its components transparency,
interactivity, and number of ministries using
Internet
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Partnership Public Sector

• Placing Web sites on the portal
• An opportunity of e-communication with
• Citizens
• Private Sector
• Other Governments
• International Community
• Access to progressive experience of governance
• E-purchasing as an instrument of public
  expenditures optimization

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Partnership International Organizations

• Accumulation of information about donors
  activity
• An opportunity to study best practice for next
  programs improving
• Fostering of co-operation among specialists
  through open digital platforms development

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Partnership Private Sector

• Opening opportunities of virtual economy for
  enterprises
• Providing contact with a huge variety of
  Ukrainian and foreign partners
• Access to reliable sources of information
• feasible financing
• clients, suppliers, partners
• success stories

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Partnership Civil Society

• The portal gives an opportunity to communicate
  inside as well as with
• government
• international community
• Coordination of efforts for solving problems on
  the grass-root level
• Providing access to various information

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The Portal Development Plan
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Steps to Collaboration

• Signing of the Work Plan
• assignment of responsible persons
• content selection for the portal
• list of information services
• Supervisory Board Membership opportunity
• Providing support in finance search and drawing
  from donor organizations