Paper tickets and bank card payments in land transport abandoned, online registration at the Administration Service Centres and public transportation traffic monitoring launched, tourist and cultural hub with virtual 3D tours and air quality alerts created. These are some of the services that Kyiv residents received in the Kyiv Digital app already during the war in 2022.
How is Kyiv's digital infrastructure developing under rocket attacks? How does the service provide Kyiv residents with information about the work of businesses? And how did the de-russification of the streets progress? The Kyiv Digital project team talked about this and much more while presenting the city's digital achievements in 2022. Mind selected the most interesting facts and quotes.
665 hours and 10 minutes
This was the total length of air raid alerts in Kyiv. They were sounded more than 620 times in the city. "Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Kyiv Digital has become a tool that warns about the threat of air raids and guides people to the nearest bomb shelter. The app offers information about the nearest shelters and instructions on how to behave during shelling.
295
As many communication cellular base stations have been installed in all Kyiv districts. According to members of the Kyiv Digital team, the capital is the first city in Ukraine to build a municipal communication grid and infrastructure for implementing the Internet of Things technology. About 1,000 shelters have been connected to Wi-Fi.
"We are developing an Internet of Things network based on LoRaWAN radio data transmission technique. This is important in times when there is no electricity: the sensors used for this network can live long on batteries," said Viktoriya Itskovych, Deputy Director of the IT Department.
Over 4,000
This number of private entrepreneurs who contacted the service to provide up-to-date information about their working hours. "Google closed the maps, we could not get information, say, whether or not a store was open. And we needed to inform people at least about the minimum. As a result, we managed to cooperate fruitfully with small and medium-sized businesses," said Oleg Polovynko, Director of the Information and Communication Technologies Department in the Kyiv City State Administration.
A map of working pharmacies, fuel stations and repair shops in the capital was created within the application. They also added a map of trauma bays, bread outlets, places with free drinking water and pump rooms, the location of working grocery stores, pet shops, veterinary hospitals and humanitarian headquarters.
6.5mln
That is how many votes Kyiv residents cast for the renaming of streets. In total, 139,000 people voted. "We launched the renaming of streets and received a lot of votes in almost five days. Kyiv residents were able to conveniently use the service and express their opinion in a short time. This opinion was taken into account by the members of the Kyiv City Council. That complex process, which previously took months, was completed in less than a week," said Petro Olenych, Head of Kyiv Digital Transformation.
570,000
That's how many times Ukrainians have signed petitions in Kyiv Digital. This year, a full-fledged voting tool appeared in the application, which led to an increase in engagement: from 38 petitions and 4,000 signatures to 426 petitions and 570,000 signatures. The most popular topics now are transporation and infrastructure. More than 100,000 votes were cast for de-russification.
3,000
This is the number of stations covered by the service for tracking public transportation. The user of the application can track the traffic of public transport along more than 100 bus, trolleybus, and tram routes. One can also track their arrival time, save routes and learn about possible change options. "This is not a timetable, but relevant information about the actual arrival of transport at the stop, which is being monitored using GPS trackers," explained Victoriya Itskovych.
46
So many certified indicative sensors have been installed in the city. There are also five stations in the capital that analyse the air for more than 15 indicators.
Users can receive notifications and recommendations in case of air quality decline. "Last year, Kyiv installed a network of air quality sensors, in 2022 we integrated this data into Kyiv Digital," said Victoriya Itskovych.
15
This number of bilingual audio guides accompanying the newly created 3D virtual tours of Kyiv buildings damaged in the course of russian aggression. The tours may be accessed on the portal of Kyiv Digital Tourist and Cultural Hub. There you can see, in particular, 360-degree pictures of the buildings destroyed by the russian military in Darnytsky, Shevchenkivsky, Sviatoshynsky, Obolonsky, Podilsky, and Solomyansky districts.