Partnering with “My City”: a platform for social change

Published: January 13, 2016   

As part of our Razom Partners initiative, we are excited to partner with “Moy Gorod”, a marketplace of social projects and civic activists. “Moy Gorod” is an online platform in Odessa, Ukraine that gets citizens to create and implement projects to make their city more livable. Together we can better spread the word about this online crowdfunding and collaboration platform that citizens are currently using to make their city cleaner, to improve the look of city street through an art project of converting phone booths into elaborate painting, to find a systematic solution for the problem of stray animals, and much more.

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Razom IT presents “My City”: A marketplace of social projects & activists in Odessa

Published: January 13, 2016   

At our January Razom IT Speaker Series event, we learned how civic tech is driving change in Ukraine. Artem Borodatyuk, co-founder of the platform for social good, “Moy Gorod” visited New York and shared his experience of launching an online platform in Odessa, Ukraine that gets citizens to create and implement projects to make their city more livable. He calls it a marketplace of social projects and civic activists.

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Razom IT presents “Ukraine: Rise of Tech Nation” with Yevgen Sysoyev

Published: December 23, 2015   

An astounding number of tech innovations around the globe are fueled by talent from Ukraine. You might not realize it, but you have benefited from them if you’ve used Ford’s in-car infotainment system, Reuters award-winning photography app, Nokia’s customer retail experience, or Deutsche Bank’s Risk Management System.

 

At our December Razom IT Speaker Series event, we had a great lineup of established Ukrainian IT professionals talk about the rise of Ukraine as a technology nation.

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Christmas Jazz with Shokolad and Bria Blessing

Published: December 20, 2015   

Shockolad, ethno-jazz band from Lviv, performed in New York, together with singer Bria Blessing. Here are a few shots from their heart warming performance. Razom was excited to be a promotional sponsor and partner up with Roman Kobuley on bringing quality Ukrainian music to New York.

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Helsinki Commission Briefing on Human Rights Violations in Crimea

Published: December 19, 2015   

On December 11, 2015 VOLYA Institute for Contemporary Law and Society (Ivanna Bilych, Svitlana Krasynska, Bohdan Pechenyak) and Razom for Ukraine with the moderator Orest Deychakiwsky from the U.S. Helsinki Commission together with guest speakers from Ukraine Andrii Klymenko, Богдан Яременко, and Юрій Яценко, held a briefing in the U.S. Congress on human rights violations in Russian occupied Crimea.

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Crimea Human Rights Report to be presented at United Nations and U.S. Congress

Published: November 30, 2015   

New York, NY, November 30, 2015 – In the spring of 2015, an international team of lawyers, with the support and endorsement of the New York University School of Law, prepared a human rights report entitled “Human Rights in Occupied Territory: Case of Crimea,” issued in June 2015 under the auspices of the Ukrainian-American nonprofit organization Razom, Inc. The report analyzes the current human rights situation in Crimea, and provides recommendations on how to address the situation to local and regional governments, international community, civil society and media, and the population of Crimea.

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Resume of the world news on the MH-17 catastrophe

Published: October 14, 2015   

We would like to share a special report completed by our OKO media monitoring team.

 

The subject of Flight MH-17, shot down over Donbas, was widely discussed in the world mass-media several times during the last year. Since July, 2014 until today, the search engine of the OKO project filtered over 13 thousand articles and videos concerning Flight MH-17, the course of investigation and the victims of this tragedy. OKO volunteer-annotators used our informational system to group each article into shorter list of main topics and write short comment about it.

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Razom IT presents: Using Tech to Transform Government: a case study of Odessa

Published: October 6, 2015   

Lyuba Shipovich and Natalia Shyrba quit their jobs in the US and became volunteers at the Odessa regional administration in Ukraine. Their mission continue reading →

Pantelyk: Ukrainian Fashion in NYC

Published: October 1, 2015   

The Pantelyk Fashion Show was a high energy event celebrating Ukrainian culture with the New York community! A young fashion designer Ira Lysa, along with other artist from Ukraine, has developed a project that promotes contemporary Ukrainian art. We were excited to share this art with the New York community.

 

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Razom IT presents: Networking in NYC #Big #Smart #Now

Published: August 4, 2015   

IT in Ukraine employs 100,000 professionals where 50,000 of them are software engineers.

 

As we moved around the start up community in New York, software engineers from Ukraine kept popping up everywhere. We knew that the out staffing industry had grown in the past decade in Ukraine. And we knew that companies all around the world rely on the engineering smarts of people in Ukraine to design, build and run all sorts of complex software.

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