Moldova’s capital Chișinău took a step forwards last week when the city’s council approved a new development strategy based on green, sustainable principles...
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Armenia’s tech sector is thriving, thanks in large part to a start-up pre-acceleration programme financed by the European Union’s Fund for Southeast...
Ukraine is home to the cheapest mobile data plans in emerging Europe, with one gigabyte (1GB) of data costing an average of just 0.46 US dollars. Indeed, Ukraine offers...
With over three billion people across the globe now in lockdown due to Covid-19, the world’s largest hackathon, The Global Hack, begins today, running until April 12...
Born as part of Hack the Crisis, an event organised by Garage48 and Accelerate Estonia as part of Estonia’s start-ups’ plan to hack the Covid-19 crisis, chatbot Suve is...
Across Europe and much of the world, social and public life has ground to a halt as social distancing measures and curfews are enacted to help prevent the spread of the...
With an increasing number of countries in Europe now locked down in order to prevent the further spread of the coronavirus epidemic, governments, institutions and the...
“We are not a traditional government department,” says Ott Vatter, the managing director of Estonia’s enormously successful e-residency programme. One look at the...
The countries of Central and Eastern European countries are slowly embracing automation as a response to an aging population and shifting demographics. Over the past 15...
I laughed. On March 9, Romania’s tax authority ANAF announced that in order to help combat the spread of the coronavirus Covid-19, it was recommending taxpayers avoid...
Few cities in emerging Europe have changed as much over the past three decades as the Albanian capital Tirana. At first, the transformation was chaotic: hundreds of...
Urban tech is a relatively new sector of industry that seeks to improve living conditions by making cities more connected, livable, and efficient. For start-ups in...