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Inside Ukraine’s Digital Identity Experiment the World Is Watching

Ukraine may be the test lab, but the blueprint is being quietly shipped abroad.

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Four smartphone screens of a Ukrainian digital ID app: a citizen passport card with a woman's portrait and personal details, a driving licence card with the same portrait, a large QR-code screen, and a dark verification screen displaying "Document found" and driving licence information.

Ukrainians Roman Lozynskyi and Svitlana Kisilova got married in June of 2024, and not a single bureaucrat had to lift a stamp. No paper, no awkward photo ops. Just a few swipes on Ukraine’s Diia app and some digital signatures, and boom, legally binding matrimony.

In a country battered by war and bureaucracy in equal measure, that kind of efficiency practically counts as romantic.

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