The Ukrainian Cultural Foundation and SoftServe signed a Memorandum of Cooperation and Partnership

IT company SoftServe will develop for the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation an online platform Cultural Space, within which it will launch cultural initiatives in the regions. This platform is designed to be the birthplace of effective partnerships between patrons and artists, cultural institutions and creative industries, government agencies and NGOs. In particular, the online resource will contain a map of the cultural needs of the country’s regions and bases of the cultural sector managers, as well as will form an activity rating of cultural life in Ukraine’s regions. Preliminary launch of the platform is scheduled for the first half of 2022.

«We are joining forces to implement the project of the online communication platform Cultural Space. The Foundation will continue to work strategically for the development of the ecosystem of culture and creativity in Ukraine. The platform will promote both the creation of a cultural environment and the preservation of cultural heritage, the establishment and maintenance of mutually beneficial cooperation between government business, and civil society, local authorities, private sector organisations, and in particular – effective, efficient investment in culture, art, and creative industries», observed Vladyslav Berkovskii, Executive Director of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation.

«We welcome the opportunity to join the process of cultural changes in the country. The Ukrainian Cultural Foundation is an institution that brings Ukrainian art closer to the modern consumer, which is very necessary today. I am sure that due to the Cultural Space platform, there will be lot of very interesting and authentic projects because now socially responsible business will be able to support them with services or financially. We believe in this project and will use our long-term experience and expertise to create a truly unique and innovative project for the country», emphasised Dmytro Ivanov, Senior Vice President of Technology, SoftServe.

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SoftServe is the largest global IT company with Ukrainian roots, working in the field of software development and consulting services. SoftServe is one of the largest software development companies in Central and Eastern Europe as well as one of the largest IT service companies in Ukraine. About 10,000 employees work in 38 offices located from San Francisco to Singapore. The company is headquartered in Lviv and Austin (Texas, USA). The company’s development centres are located in Lviv, Kyiv, Dnipro, Kharkiv, Rivne, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi, Sofia (Bulgaria) and Wroclaw, Bialystok, Gliwice, and Warsaw (Poland). The company is working on more than 900 active projects for clients in North America, the EU, and Asia. SoftServe’s clients are such companies as IBM, Cisco, Panasonic, Cloudera, Henry Schein, Spillman Technologies, and others. SoftServe is a partner of Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and other major technology companies.