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KYIV. Jan 13 (Interfax-Ukraine) – A first noncommercial IT project incubator entitled “1991 Open Data Incubator” was launched in Ukraine with support of the Ukrainian government, the information and communications department of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has reported.

The government said that the incubator will work with projects based on open public data.

“The project is intended to digitize agribusiness, energy, infrastructure projects, public services for citizens and create internal analytical systems in the state, establishing cooperation of IT designers, nongovernmental organizations and analytical centers with authorities,” the department said.

First participants of the incubator will be winners of the hackathon tenders scheduled for February 6. Projects that want to create a startup using open databases for agriculture, energy and infrastructure, projects on designing of electronic public services on the basis of state registers, analytical systems for ministries, regional administration and city halls can take part in the tender. Bids can be submitted from Smart City projects for Ukrainian cities.

SocialBoost NGO with support of Western NIS Fund (the U.S.) will manage the incubator.