Odessa's digital transformation has been extended to 2029: half of the measures have not been implemented

The Odessa program “Digital.Odessa,” originally planned for 2024–2026, has been extended through 2029. At the same time, during the first year of its implementation, 47 of the 98 planned measures did not receive a single hryvnia.
This was reported by the Center for Public Investigations, which analyzed a report from the Odesa City Military Administration.

The program was approved by a resolution of the Odesa City Council on June 26, 2024. It was originally scheduled to run for three years—from 2024 to 2026.

However, on September 1, 2026, by order of the head of the Odesa City Military Administration, its implementation period was extended until 2029.

The report on the program’s implementation for 2024 was signed on September 29—less than a month after its extension.

According to the Center for Policy Research, the program included 98 digital initiatives. However, for 47 of them, cash expenditures in 2024 amounted to zero hryvnias.

In total, 127 million 200 thousand hryvnias were allocated for the program in 2024. Of this amount, 123 million 300 thousand hryvnias were to come from the city budget, and another 3 million 900 thousand from the enterprises’ own funds.

Following the program’s extension, the report did not specify how its total cost had changed. The document also does not provide a breakdown of funding for 2025–2029—only a single total amount is listed.

At the same time, the completion deadline for most measures has now been set for 2029. Some are scheduled to be implemented in 2024–2025, 2024–2026, or 2024–2027.

Among the initiatives that did not launch in 2024, the Center for Digital Transformation lists an investment portal, an open data portal, a geoportal, a geospatial data exchange system, a medical web portal, a cultural heritage portal, an automation system for technical inventory archives, a public Wi-Fi network, a registry of elevators, and an electronic address registry.

The report attributes the failure to implement some of the initiatives, in particular, to the state of war and the need to “refine the implementation algorithm.” According to the Center for Public Policy (CPP), this phrasing is repeated in at least 14 measures; however, the document does not provide a detailed explanation of exactly what needs to be refined.

Read the full CPRanalysis , “E-tickets, Computers, and Zeros in Reports: How Millions from Odessa’s Digital Budget Were Spent,” on the website.

Андрій Колісніченко