The Transparency International Ukraine project is competing in the Smart City category. You can vote for Transparent Cities until June 9.
The Smart City category is for projects that make cities more modern and effective through technology. These include IT services, mobile apps, data management systems, sensors, and other innovative tools that make residents’ lives easier and give them access to information.
In 2025, the team launched a new product — the European City Index — which involves not only collecting data and developing recommendations independently, but also building an IT platform that automatically assesses different areas of city life.
As part of this project, the Transparent Cities program also examined e-services and open data in 11 Ukrainian cities — Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia, Kropyvnytskyi, Lutsk, Lviv, Odesa, Poltava, Kharkiv, Khmelnytskyi, Chernihiv, and Kyiv — analyzed the level of development of these services against 40 criteria, and created roadmaps for city councils so we can change cities for the better together.
This is not the first time a Transparency International Ukraine project has focused specifically on the quality and accessibility of digital services in cities. So it is no surprise that the TI Ukraine program is competing precisely in the Smart City category.
You can vote for our project at the LUN City Awards 2026 online at the link.
“Since 2017, our program has been working to build practical tools that strengthen Ukrainian cities, generating big data and solutions for further change. We are convinced that the high-quality rollout of such technological solutions at all levels of local self-government helps Ukrainians maintain their standard of living even in the hardest of times, as is the case now, and brings our cities closer to European governance standards,” explains Olesia Koval, Transparency International Ukraine’s Transparent Cities Program Manager.
The LUN City Awards 2026 was created as a thank-you to those who restore and improve the urban environment: spaces, services, communities, and cultural and social initiatives.
The competition is open to residents, businesses, civil society organizations, developers, public institutions, and teams that in 2025 carried out projects that changed life in Ukrainian cities for the better.
The awards feature the following categories: “City of Communities,” “City Without Limits,” “Smart City,” “City of the Unbreakable,” “City of Care,” and “My City.”
Since 2017, our program has been working to build practical tools that strengthen Ukrainian cities, generating big data and solutions for further change. We are convinced that the high-quality rollout of such technological solutions at all levels of local self-government helps Ukrainians maintain their standard of living even in the hardest of times.
Olesia Koval
