Kara Swisher talks to Deputy P.M. Mykhailo Fedorov and Samantha Power about how the app has evolved into a wartime digital Swiss Army knife.
So Administrator Power, cybersecurity has been a focus of USAID’S work in Ukraine since 2020. Explain why that is. Was it part of the development of Diia or a different project? It’s gotta be top of mind here, given Ukraine is ground zero for Russian disinformation. That’s where they tested out everything, long ago. And have continued to attack.Absolutely.
And so we have been working with the Ukrainian government since 2014 on cyber protections more broadly, to electricity infrastructure, to government bank accounts and the like. But once this became embedded into the Ukrainian government infrastructure, as it happens, digital infrastructure, and once it was clear that citizens’ lives would all live exactly in this single device, that became incredibly important.
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