Blog post on how open data helps Ukraine during the war
Before the Russian invasion in February 2022, Ukraine had already made
great progress to develop their open-data practices. Open data had
been used in Ukraine to fight corruption, grow the economy and build a
democratic society. In the 2021 edition of the annual open data
maturity assessment [https://data.europa.eu/en/dashboard/2021],
Ukraine was identified as a European trend-setter
[https://data.europa.eu/sites/default/files/report/Open_Data_Best_Practices_in_Europe_Estonia_Slovenia_and_Ukraine.pdf].
In 2021-2022, more than two million unique users worldwide visited the
Unified State Open Data portal, data.gov.ua, managed by the Ministry
of Digital Transformation. 

Currently, access to both data.gov.ua and the local portals of some
cities are limited. Nevertheless, open data still plays a role in the
current crisis. Intelligence based on open sources are used to get a
better understanding of the war in Ukraine (you can read the
data.europa.eu data story
[https://data.europa.eu/en/datastories/open-source-intelligence] on
open-source intelligence for more information). Open data is also used
to develop tools that help the Ukrainian government, citizens and
companies during the war, such as Ruassets [https://ruassets.com/]
developed by, YouControl [https://youcontrol.com.ua/en/] which checks
connections of international and Ukrainian companies that have
connections with Russian and Belarussian assets.  

In this blog article
[https://data.europa.eu/en/impact-studies/country-insights/ukraine/how-open-data-helps-ukraine-during-war],
open data experts Kateryna Onyiliogwu and Mykhailo Kornieiev – head
of the open data department in the Ministry of Digital Transformation
of Ukraine – explain more about these tools and how open data helps
Ukraine during the war. 

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Arguments from Ukrainians on the continued value of open data,
published on data.europa.eu