DIGITAL DEVELOPMENT FORUM OF UKRAINE

On November 16, the Digital Development Forum of Ukraine will be held in Kyiv. The event will bring together representatives of government, the civil society and expert community, and leading companies in the fields of ICT, e-commerce, electronic communication services, and digital skills development to work out a shared vision for accelerating the development of Ukraine's digital economy and society. The Forum will discuss prospects for harmonizing Ukraine's digital market with the EU and the Eastern Partnership countries, and will summarize analytical materials on the priority areas of harmonization that were discussed by Ukraine's expert community during June 2018. The Forum is organized by the NGO "Center for Innovation Development" and the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in partnership with organizations of pro-European civil society Platforms – the Ukrainian side of the Ukraine-EU Civil Society Platform and the Ukrainian National Platform of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum. Venue: Kyiv, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, 9 Illinska St. Date and time: November 16, 2018, 10:30 – 17:00 (Registration at 10:00) You can find the preliminary program of the event in the attachment to this letter. Participation in the Forum is free of charge, subject to prior registration at the link (no later than November 4). Please note that the number of Forum participants is limited. If there are more applications for the event, participants will be invited according to the completed registration forms. The selection results will be communicated by the organizers to the email address provided during registration by November 7 (inclusive). Participants cover travel and accommodation costs themselves. The final program and the exact venue of the Forum will be communicated to participants no later than November 9, 2018. If you have any questions regarding participation in the Forum, please contact: Volodymyr Nochvai (project manager) – 066 75 88 457, nochvai@gmail.com;. Koriavets Maksym (project manager) – 063 57 94 655, pfirs@ukr.net. The Forum will be held within the framework of the project "Strengthening public participation in the development and implementation of Ukraine's digital agenda and harmonization of digital markets with the EU and EaP countries", which is implemented by the NGO "Center for Innovation Development" with the support of the European Union and the International Renaissance Foundation within the "Civic Synergy" project. Co-organizers of the Forum: NGO "Agency of European Innovations", NGO "All-Ukrainian Association "Information Security and Information Technologies", NGO "Polissia Foundation for International and Regional Studies", IGO "European Media Platform", informal civil association "Public Innovation Network of Ukraine", PR agency "IT-Pro", Faculty of Informatics of NaUKMA, and scholars of the Institute for Economics and Forecasting of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. The Forum program is available at the link https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LQv-B0UzHkUNzBhAOVHn3VwNlasvLDp9gSZs6kpdFMk/edit