Business news from Ukraine

ZE!TEAM LAUNCHES LIFT PROJECT TO ATTRACT NEW SPECIALISTS, INNOVATIVE IDEAS

The team of newly elected President Volodymyr Zelensky (Ze!Team) has launched the LIFT project, which is intended to become a social elevator and unite qualified specialists and innovations, ensure changes in the country and its comprehensive socio-economic and cultural development.
“This is a platform that will finally give impetus to changes in the country: new people for state and social projects, innovative ideas and developments that will form the state as a modern service for every citizen of Ukraine,” the project initiators note.
Anyone can join the project. “We have combined the best recruiting companies and specialists who will closely monitor the selection process,” Ze!Team said.
LIFT, as an innovative platform, will help people find jobs, become specialists and work on changes in the country. Authors of the project say it will solve difficult issues or be useful for the country, bringing positive changes at the state level.
A beta version of LIFT project: https://lift.net.ua/ was launched on Tuesday, May 28.
On May 23, Zelensky, during his speech at the Ukrainian forum of Internet figures, iForum announced the launch of this project in the near future. He said it would allow anyone to offer their ideas as part of the process of digitalization of the state, dubbed “creating a state in a smartphone,” announced during his election campaign.

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ZE!TEAM DISCUSSING POSSIBLE CHANGE OF SAPO CHIEFS

The team of President-elect Volodymyr Zelensky (Ze!Team) is discussing a possible change in the leadership of the Specialized Anti-corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) and the institutional strengthening of the National Anti-corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU).
“Today, a detailed action plan in terms of anti-corruption policy is at the stage of finalization. The Zelensky team has a clear agreement on the need to reset the National Agency on Corruption Protection (NACP). There is a very serious discussion on resetting the leadership of the Specialized Anti-corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO),” Halyna Yanchenko, a Ze!Team advisor on anti-corruption policy and digitalization, said on Facebook on Friday.
As for NABU, according to her, most of the team of the newly elected president “considers it necessary to support and strengthen NABU institutionally.”
“I also stand in these positions personally. Moreover, the plan for the first 100 days of the future president discusses the initiative to grant NABU the right to independently wiretap [only the SBU can do this now] from communication channels, a step the experts have advocated for a long time,” she said.

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