Presentation: Maintaining Connectivity in a Time of War

Talk:

Kyiv Digital is a city mobile application that was created as a part of the city`s digitalization initiative.

Residents of the capital had the opportunity to conveniently use parking services, return a previously used car from the penalty area without queues, buy QR tickets, top up a transport card, buy a monthly pass, use one-time QR tickets, receive notifications in the field of housing and communal services, and vote for proposed city improvement projects.

During the full-scale invasion, the Kyiv Digital app shifted to become a life-saving tool, which now warns of the threat of airstrikes and directs people to the nearest bomb shelter during an air raid alert.

Along with the previously designed reasons for the app, These types of alerts have become a part of its main goal; from maps of bomb shelters to directing citizens to heating points and the pinpointing of areas of significant destruction in which key infrastructure has been compromised or destroyed entirely.

• life-saving tool, which warns about airstrike threats and directs people to the nearest bomb shelter during an air raid alert;
• map of bomb shelters and heating points, and information about destruction.
• the E-petition service has significantly updated the Kyiv Digital application, which is increasingly oriented towards global standards of public communication.