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Study Finds Collaboration and Diia Kept Ukraine’s Public Services Running During War

Findings draw on 2023–2024 surveys in Dnipropetrovsk with limited generalizability.

Overview

  • Peer‑reviewed research from Linköping University, published in Government Information Quarterly in September 2025, analyzes how service delivery persisted under wartime conditions.
  • Surveys of 239 public officials and 882 citizens, plus ten interviews, depict a shift from sporadic interactions to coordinated co‑production across government and civil society.
  • The Diia platform served as a central digital hub connecting grassroots solutions to state systems, with the app installed by more than half of Ukrainians.
  • Researchers identify growing social trust—built over years since the Orange Revolution—as the enabling condition for cooperation, while noting ongoing corruption concerns.
  • The authors caution that data come from a single region and are not fully representative, and they urge investments in flexible, inclusive governance and sustained trust‑building before crises.