GovTech Reform Index Volume 2: Regulatory Trends in Ukraine’s Digital Governance in Q3–Q4 2025

The GovTech Reform Index is a quarterly analytical initiative designed to systematically track digital reforms in Ukraine through the assessment of regulatory acts. The Index evaluates changes across multiple policy areas, including e-government, cybersecurity, economy and finance, transport and logistics, telecommunications, education, social protection and others.

The new issue of the report examines 249 regulatory acts adopted in the second half of 2025 — more than twice as many as in the first half of the year. While the GovTech Reform Index stood at 1.98 in both Q1 and Q2, it stabilised at 1.84 in Q3 and Q4, reflecting a shift towards more implementation-oriented and operational regulatory changes.

According to the report, e-government remained the leading policy area by number of adopted regulatory acts in both Q3 and Q4. At the same time, cybersecurity became a significantly stronger focus in Q4, with the number of relevant regulatory acts increasing from 2 to 12. These included the adoption of the National Cyber Incident Response Plan, new approaches to vulnerability identification in public-sector systems, and cybersecurity requirements for critical infrastructure.

The report also notes that regulatory acts adopted in Q3–Q4 were generally assessed as more feasible to implement under current conditions, while being less innovation-driven compared to earlier quarters. According to the methodology, each act is evaluated by an independent expert council across three criteria: digital innovativeness, feasibility, and duration of impact.

The GovTech Reform Index is developed by Vox Ukraine and GGTC Kyiv and is intended not only as a tool for tracking digital reforms in Ukraine, but also as a potential reference model for governments seeking to monitor reform progress and identify anti-reform trends.