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Dostupna Osvita: The Open Policy Foundation and a Ukrainian start-up company launched a website for residents of Donbas and Crimea

March 27, 2019, 9:38 p.m.

The Open Policy Foundation, in cooperation with the Ukrainian start-up company Sannacode, has created a Google’s map of Education Centers and schools with distance education/external studies in Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts, and they launched an updated “Dostupna Osvita” (Available Education) website. Now the site has a more functional design and additional useful content with interactive maps. It is also adapted for people with visual impairment.

The dostupnaosvita.com.ua website is an assistant to every entrant and school student from the non-government controlled area of Ukraine and from Crimea. The website is free and WITHOUT registration, it also has video tutorials to get ready for IEE and SFA regarding the Ukrainian language, history of Ukraine, other subjects, and video instructions. Now, the updated Dostupna Osvita website has all the necessary information presented in a more understandable and modern form, namely step-by-step instructions through texts and infographics. The website became more convenient, clearer and easier for users to navigate. Information is structured according to the headings – For Entrants, Education Centers, Distance School, Video Tutorials, About Platform, Contacts.

Now, it will be more comfortable for entrants to choose the right Education Center and school because you can see addresses and phones of Education Centers and schools with distance education/external studies on Google’s map posted on the updated website.

Maps show all 37 “Donbas-Ukraine” and 37 “Crimea-Ukraine” Education Centers, as well as schools providing distance education/external study in Luhansk and Donetsk Oblasts. When you point the cursor, a popup window appears in which you can see the full title of an institution, telephones, address and surname of its head. An e-mail address and website of an education institution are also indicated for maximum ease of use and completeness of information.

It is important that dostupnaosvita.com.ua contains a separate list of schools providing distance education/external study in all regions of Ukraine. All data on maps and in lists of the Dostupna Osvita online platform reference tables will be constantly updated and complemented.

It is worth noting that now the Dostupna Osvita website is adapted for visually impaired people. It is also easy to view it using mobile gadgets. The site developer, the Ukrainian IT company Sannacode, will also additionally create applications for mobile phones to help prepare for IEE.

The updated version of the site is presented to the partners of the UN Education Cluster on March 22.

 

Information

The website was created in 2015 with the support of UNICEF. In 2018, the website had 73,000 visitors and 292,000 views. In March 2019, dostupnaosvita.com.ua has been updated with the support of the United States Agency for International Development.