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mobile internet within three years.
The government have set Digital goals for December: ​Drivers licenses in smartphones; launch ‘Action’ – one window portal for citizen services, documents, and files; launch ‘Developers Office’ – to file construction documents “without the involvement of any official.”
Digital goals for 2020​: Add to Action: student id’s; retirement certificates, birth certificates, residence registrations; and national id cards (internal passports).
Five-year digital goal​: 100% of services online and universal high-speed internet access in 2024, up from 60-70% of the nation today.
Visa, the international payment system, has agreed to work with the new Digital Transformation Ministry to popularize payment systems ​-- QR codes and Tap to Phone technology -- to turn smartphones into mobile Point of Sale terminals. Through the planned ???, or ‘Action’ portal, citizens will pay utility bills, fees, and fines. “A person’s communication with the state should be as convenient, fast and inconspicuous as possible,” says Digital Transformation Minister Mikhail Fedorov. In December, the first project with Visa will start – using ??? to pay fines for traffic violations.
9.1.8 ​Tourism sector news
9.1.9 ​Utilities sector news
Chernobyl tourism is running at twice the level of last year​, reports Ukraine’s State Agency of on Exclusion Zone Management. With October recording a monthly record, 107,000 tourists have visited this year. The authorities cite “increased interest in the Chornobyl NPP after the release of HBO’s mini-series Chernobyl.” Foreigners account for 80% of visitors. Top countries are: Britain - 15,738; Poland - 9,378; Germany – 7,826; US - 5,580; and Czech Republic -- 4,063.
This year's launch of ​Ukraine's new electricity market​ has failed to provide significant benefits to the nation's state-owned electricity generating companies​, according to an advisor to the minister of energy and environment protection Illia Poluliakh.
"They [state-owned companies] should have received the greatest financial benefit from the introduction of the new model. This would have allowed efficient producers to increase the volume of transmission and develop," news agency Interfax quoted him as saying on November 7. "Unfortunately, now the picture is a bit different."
Ukraine's new electricity market was launched on July 1. ​The new model allows​ power producers to sell electricity by bilateral contracts with consumers, as well as on a day-ahead market, intraday market and balancing market. It has replaced the old model, in which all power producers were selling their electricity to a single buyer.
According to Poluliakh, the state should achieve the realization of social goals through the profit transferred by successfully operating state-owned companies to the national budget, and not through the imposition of public service
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