What AI Services Might Appear in Diia — Results of the DiiaAI.Contest Hackathon

Together with EPAM Ukraine and the WINWIN AI Center of Excellence, we held the first Diia.AIContest hackathon. The goal was to develop new services for the Diia ecosystem using artificial intelligence. 

 

For three weeks, teams worked on new AI products for the Diia application. 270 participants applied for the hackathon, and 10 teams with the strongest prototypes made it to the final. The solutions of the winning teams have every chance of becoming new services for citizens in the Diia ecosystem

noted Danylo Tsvok, Chief AI Officer of the Ministry of Digital Transformation and CEO of the WINWIN AI Center of Excellence

 

Three winners received grants totaling $8,000 and support from EPAM Ukraine mentors. Most importantly, their solutions may appear in the Diia application: 

• First place — the “Role of LLMs is Overrated” team with an AI translator for official document approval, which makes the process of translation and notarial certification of citizens’ personal documents accessible and fully digital through Diia. 
• Second place — the DiAI team. Thanks to their service, citizens will be able to report parking violations using a photo and geolocation through Diia. The result is fewer traffic jams and more parking spaces, including for people with disabilities.
• Third place — the ShiftWave AI team, which developed an AI legal document constructor. With it, citizens will be able to create legally sound contracts in a few minutes — without risky internet templates and lawyer fees. 

 

Hackathon participants also developed: 

• An AI navigator for utility services — helps quickly determine where to turn with a utility problem and automatically generates a proper appeal, saving users time. 
• A service for checking document photos — ensures that photos for documents in Diia are submitted correctly the first time, with instant feedback on the picture quality.
• “Rodovid” (Family Tree) — a digital genealogical tree — helps research, store, and visualize one’s family history.
• An internal AI assistant “Yana” for the design team. It automates routine work in creating new Diia services, accelerates the prototyping of AI solutions for internal teams of the Ministry of Digital Transformation and partners, and facilitates the onboarding of new teams. 

 

Over 20 years in Ukraine, we at EPAM have been convinced that real change requires not only technical skills but also drive, and Diia.AIContest clearly confirmed this. The teams didn’t wait for ideal conditions but created reality here and now — the intensity of the work is best illustrated by the numbers: 800 million tokens and 120 thousand requests passed through our EPAM AI/Run platform alone. This hackathon proved that Ukraine has powerful potential in developing AI solutions in the field of public services

notes Vadym Vlasenko, AI Director at EPAM Ukraine

 

Over three weeks, the teams completed six workshops from experts at EPAM Ukraine and AWS, as well as Q&A sessions with the Diia team. All participants learned how to create AI assistants, work with large language models on the EPAM AI/Run platform, and automate request processing. 

 

The hackathon showed how strong the community of innovators is, ready to change the country today. And this is just the beginning — even more technological breakthroughs, new products, and teams that will create the future of the Diia ecosystem and digital Ukraine are ahead. The cloud infrastructure for the hackathon was provided by Amazon Web Services, which supplied the necessary tools and environment for working on the prototypes.