The Ministry of Culture and Information Policy says that Google will support the department’s initiatives to digitalize Ukrainian cultural heritage and combat disinformation.

“Ukrainian culture is not only museums and cultural objects, it is the people who create and maintain Ukrainian heritage. We propose that Google set an ambitious common goal - to support gifted artists who have great creative potential and dream of becoming authors of digital works of art. We would be grateful, if Google, in partnership with the ministry, introduce grants for training young Ukrainian artists in the field of Digital Art,” the department’s press service said following a meeting of acting minister Rostyslav Karandeyev with Google representatives.

In addition, he proposed partnership and participation of Google in the process of digitizing museum artifacts and creating databases for storing these objects, and proposed the idea of a project to reproduce digital images of legendary Ukrainian figures on Google platforms.

In turn, Google Vice President of Public Policy and Government Relations in Europe Annette Kroeber-Riel expressed her readiness to continue cooperation to combat disinformation on the YouTube platform and support the development of digitalization of culture in Ukraine, including contemporary art and training of artists.

“We have a specific proposal regarding digitization and working with databases - digitization of books. This idea can be put into practice. In addition, one of the possible methods of promoting Ukraine as a brand and Ukrainian culture is the use of the YouTube platform, and we are ready to jointly consider and implement this initiative on a practical level,” she added.

The Google representatives also expressed their readiness to invest efforts in cooperation with creators, including the use of artificial intelligence for collaboration.