Tech.euCate Lawrence
Inside Mriia: Ukraine's million-user experiment in startup-driven GovTech
One thing I often hear from startups is that they wish their government would hire a bunch of entrepreneurs to solve its inefficiencies. Not in the vein of DOGE, with its focus on cutting government spending and jobs, but to develop better public services.
Ukraine has taken this thinking a step further with its state-backed national digital education platform, Mriia, which brings together school administration, teachers, students and parents in a single ecosystem, applying a product development approach drawn from the startup world.
On a trip to Kyiv earlier this year, I spoke to Anastasiia Kochubynska, Iryna Yashchenko and Viacheslav Miekh to learn more.
Building Mriia with a startup mindset
Kochubynska began her career as a financial analyst in banking before moving into product management during COVID, working across fintech, health and fitness.
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