Ukraine’s Ministry of Culture has established an Expert Board on Shaping State Information Policy and approved its personal composition, which includes the Institute of Mass Information director Oksana Romaniuk.
The decree was passed on 6 April on the grounds of the Culture Ministry Regulations approved by the Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 885 on 16 October 2019 (as amended).
The Ministry also approved the Expert Board Regulations.
The Expert Board is a permanent consultative and advisory body established to offer expert recommendations and proposals on shaping the state’s information policy.
Expert Board members
The Board is comprised of 23 people, including representatives of the Ministry of Culture, civil society organisations, media institutions, and the expert community.
The board is chaired by the Deputy Minister of Culture for European Integration, Natalia Movshovych, with Hanna Krasnostup (head of the Department for Strategic Communications and Promoting Ukrainian Culture) as the deputy chair and Olha Chupys (the Strategic Communications Department’s chief of information and cultural reintegration) as the secretary.
Other board members include:
- Vitaliy Pelykh, chief of public communications and relations with the media at the Department for Strategic Communications and Promoting Ukrainian Culture;
- Yulia Yanchuk, the Department’s deputy director and chief of popularising Ukraine globally;
- Oksana Romaniuk, director at the NGO Institute of Mass Information;
- Vita Volodovska, head of the NGO Digital Security Lab;
- Diana Dutsyk, executive director at the NGO Ukrainian Insitute of Media and Communications;
- Roman Kifliuk, national IMS advisor for Ukraine;
- Liza Kuzmenko, head of the NGO Women in Media;
- Andriy Kulakov, programme director at the NGO Internews Ukraine;
- Natalia Lyhachova, head of the NGO Detector Media;
- Vadym Miskyi, programme director at the NGO Detector Media;
- Oksana Moroz, founder of the info hygiene initiative How Not to Turn Braindead;
- Kateryna Myasnikova, executive director at the NGO National Media Association;
- Lyudmyla Pankratova, lawyer at the NGO Institute of Regional Press Development;
- Halyna Petrenko, director of the NGO Detector Media;
- Taras Petriv, president of the NGO Souspilnist Foundation;
- Lyubov Rakovytsia, head of the NGO DII Ukraine;
- Alyona Romaniuk, founder of the fact-checking project NotaYenota, professor at the Education and Research Institute of Journalism at the Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv;
- Olena Samoylenko, project manager at the NGO Pylyp Orlyk Institute of Democracy;
- Oleksandra Stepanova, executive director at the NGO Human Rights Platform;
- Taras Shevchenko, chief of development at the NGO Centre for Democracy and the Rule of Law.
Expert Board’s primary tasks
- Drafting proposals and recommendations on shaping the state’s information policy.
- Finding ways, mechanisms, and methods for solving issues that arise in the implementation of the state information policy.
- Assisting in the shaping of an effective state information policy that meets ongoing challenges and society’s present needs.
- Facilitating the introduction of international best practices.
- Establishing cooperation with other state bodies, civil society organisations, and the expert community to share experience and best practices in the field of information, etc.
Moreover, the expert board will draft analytical reports, proposals, and recommendations and participate in the drafting of regulatory acts relating to the media and information fields.
The expert board works on a non-profit basis. Its decisions are non-binding and updates about its work will be posted on the Ministry of Culture website.
