Zelenskyy 'appears' in tech events via hologram, vows to use technology to rebuild Ukraine

In a hologram dress, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who became Ukraine’s wartime president overnight, pledged to keep digital technology at centre of rebuilding his country. Zelenskyy “appeared” on Thursday at seven European technology conferences including Dublin Tech Summit in RDS. From his war-torn nation, Zelenskyy dressed people onstage via hologram at conferences in Stockholm, London, Amsterdam and Paris. His holographic image was also streamed in Dublin, Berlin and at anor event in London. 

In his brief speech which was recorded in both Ukrainian and English, Zelenksyy appeared in his now-usual outfit of a green t-shirt and military combat trousers. In front of 200,000 attendees across seven tech conferences, Zelenskyy pledged, “We will rebuild everything that Russia has destroyed” and said that his country would “not stop for a minute” in its economic development. 

Despite Russia-Ukraine war continuing unabated, Zelenskyy said that he would make his nation “freest digital economy in world”, according to Irish Times. Ukrainian President furr said that he would provide “total stability of all state institutions”. He said that technology would be used to ensure that re was less bureaucracy and corruption. Zelenskyy expressed his goal of making state institutions “paperless”. 

As per report, Zelenskyy also said that more details regardings his plans for rebuilding Ukraine would be revealed next month in Lugano, Switzerland. It is to mention here that Zelenskyy’s dress and hologram were produced and transmitted using technology from companies including ARHT Media and Evercoast. 

3D printers used to scan, document Ukrainian heritage sites

In anor example of Ukrainian authorities relying on technology amid Moscow-Kyiv war which now entered day 114 on Friday. According to Kyiv Independent, Ukrainian experts collaborated with specialists from Latvia’s Culture Ministry and Riga Technical University and scanned two heritage sites in Chernihiv Oblast damaged by Russian shelling and two sacred monuments in Lviv and Kyiv oblasts this week. 

Reportedly, experts intend to preserve and restore damaged sites in Ukraine since February 24, when Russian President Vlimir Putin announced “special” military operation. It is to mention here that around 400 instances of damage being inflicted on Ukrainian cultural heritage sites have been recorded, as per report. 

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