How Ukrainian developers and IT companies support Ukraine.
Applications and IT services overview. And other activities from the IT community.
On February 24, Russia again attacked Ukraine’s military objects, civil airports and buildings, and many cities far away from the front and borders. Hot war affects civilians, developers, and IT companies. So I want to describe how Ukrainian developers and IT companies help to defend.
The IT community has helped the government, refugees, and NGOs since Russia occupied part of our land in Crimea and part of the east region eight years ago.
From February 24, the dev community created and supported many applications that help with defending. Also, developers and engineers start to volunteer, help financially and with different resources, goods, and foods, and help evacuate civilians from the most dangerous places.
There are many applications to help record the Russian Federation’s aggression, seek help, and find temporary shelter/housing in cities. Various IT companies and independent IT specialists have developed platforms to search for specialists to help and protect Ukraine. In addition, many owners and site administrators in Ukraine have placed banners with information about supporting the Ukrainian army.
Ukrainian cybersecurity experts also actively participated in the protection of critical infrastructure. In addition, a lot of information about Russian aggression became public, like lists of names of Russian troops that attacked Ukraine.
Applications and IT services
Army SOS — NGO focuses on the “multiplier” solutions that drastically improve Ukraine’s defense capabilities. Create defense mapping software for artillery — “Kropyva”
Openeyes is a charitable foundation affiliated with Softserve. Softserve is a Ukrainian trans international IT company with offices in Ukraine, the United States, Poland, London, Amsterdam, Sofia, and Stockholm.
Also, there are face recognition solutions for security forces with a database of offenders, collaborators, and people who actively participated in the encroachment on the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and inviolability of Ukraine. Page of solution - https://neuro.identigraf.center/
InformNapalm volunteer initiative emerged as a response to the Russian aggression in Ukraine in March 2014. Project for a long time are collecting and analyzing OSINT-information.
YouControl, together with Artellence and with the support of the Security Service of Ukraine, developed a free application, “TyHto” (Who are you?). App created for a quick inspection of individuals at checkpoints, on the street during curfew, at the entrance to the shelter or anywhere. Such review and detection of suspects will save the lives of many people.
Many developers and engineers helped to evacuate the people from the Hotpoint. A lot of stories were published on personal social media accounts. Stories of IT specialists who went to serve in the Armed Forces of Ukraine territorial defense forces.
MacPaw, a Ukrainian IT company, provides the VPN service Clear VPN with free access for one year. After that, access is available under the promo code SAVEUKRAINE rebrand.ly/saveukraine
This will help spread the truth and maintain digital security. This step will also help support Ukraine and provide an opportunity to share the truth about Russia’s crimes in Ukraine with the world.
Before February 24, the biggest Ukrainian IT portal dou.ua began a promo campaign to subscribe to the Patreon of one of the biggest found that support the army Come Back Alive. A lot of other organizations support this campaign. As a result, patrons donations grew from around $20k per month to $430k per month. But then Patreon suspended the crowdfunding page for “Come Back Alive”.
Russian soldiers killed civilians and destroyed Kharkiv, Mariupol, and other cities; the latest story was about the Bucha massacre. The Ukrainian IT community share all video and photo with the audience through social media.
Bot STOP Russian War, used by Ukrainians to send photos, video, and locations of Russian military/combat vehicles.
Interactive app with photo and video of Russian invasion https://karta-mira.com/
National Resistance center (Ukrainian resistance, practical advice regarding medicine, armed underground, weapons, nonviolent resistance)
Ukrainian exchange of volunteering and work https://v-tylu.work/
Marketplaces with information about clothes, food, housing for refugees https://potreba.org/
We unite volunteers and concerned citizens to help the Armed Forces and the Territorial Defense - https://people4ua.com/
Information on the needs of civilians affected by the war https://volunteer-razom.in.ua/
Information portal (information on who to contact and how to act in specific circumstances during the war) - https://npdn.in.ua/
If you are a developer or IT specialist and want to help Ukraine in the digital sphere, let’s get in touch @alex_dev_k
