Ukraine has implemented the Mobile First initiative very well and has developed a government application for smart devices that many countries would like to replicate in their own country. Estonia is also considering the possibility of developing a mobile application based on the Ukrainian application “Diya”.
Christian Jarvan, Estonian Minister of Foreign Trade and Information Technologies, told about this in an interview with Ukrinform.
“We consider Diya on several levels: software and use cases, development of a separate application and introduction of new services on its platform. What will be the percentage of usage of Ukrainian product in this application and how many Estonian jobs our agents need to calculate in the coming weeks. The more we use Ukraine’s experience and the better we avoid repeating your work,” he said.
Yarvan explained in Diyanet that the ministry hopes to implement this project quickly, as Ukraine uses the Trembita data exchange service, which is shared with the X-road used in Estonia. Also, take a similar approach to Ukraine to speed up the resolution of most technical issues.
“At least for today, we do not plan to take over your technical infrastructure for electronic identity as Estonia has a very mature and advanced technology. But what you have done with biometrics and facial recognition as part of Action ID is impressive and we hope to use this experience in the future,” he summarized. minister.
As reported, Ukraine and Estonia already have experience of collaboration on digital projects. In particular, a Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation in the field of digital transformations was signed between the Ministry of Digital Transformation and the Ministry of Economy and Communication of the Republic of Estonia in 2019.