and now in washington, we present it as opportunities of our digital country. it s just extraordinary. administrator power, ambassador power, so usaid helped fund this, $25 million as sort of a startup, but what ukraine has done, i mean, we first saw it in the days of the invasion, which was basically stopping the cyber attacks in their tracks, which everyone had expected russia to have such a great advantage. it is really hard to find words to describe the technological sophistication of ukrainians young people. we have a 32-year-old deputy prime minister here beside me, of the tech specialist that mykhalo mentioned. diia was a glean in someone s eye in 2019. and now here we are a massive
to the success of your whole history because of what you live. cybersecurity is the foundation of our product because we support the approach, the product by design, cybersecurity by design. diia doesn t save data. diia is a platform which connects the different registers. so the vulnerability the vulnerability that you would have if the government was storing all the data, the vulnerability to hackers but also privacy and surveillance concerns, they have addressed as a design feature by creating the platform but not itself not the government itself storing the data. but at the same time, he wears
another hat not just creating diia, which so work on cyberprotection across all minist ministries. that is the dog that is not barking in this war. putin has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in trying to take down ukrainian government functionality through cyberattacks, and they have withstood those attacks just like they ve withstood conventional weapons attacks. what is the future here as you develop these technologies, are the students who are coming up in ukraine conversing with they are able to do all of these things? yes, of course and now we share our expertise with other countries. for example, estonia will launch their government app on the basis of
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov said that at least five countries had already announced their intention to create their own digital applications based on the Ukrainian Diia application.