World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Development and adoption of technological standards for the World Wide Web. Founded in 1994; brings together more than 400 member organisations.
An international non-profit structure uniting healthcare and IT
The "Digital Healthcare" eHEALTH Consortium is an international non-profit structure uniting healthcare and IT alongside specialists in law, policy, science, medicine, and business to advance digital medicine in Ukraine and beyond.
A global crisis as the catalyst for an institutional answer
The COVID-19 pandemic called into question what had previously seemed routine: the ability of healthcare systems to operate under sustained pressure, share data across institutions, and do so safely. Ukraine entered the pandemic without a single secure mechanism for exchanging medical information — and this became one of the principal barriers to any serious modernisation of the sector.
In May 2020, the leak of 26 million records from Ukraine's driver's-licence registry moved personal-data protection from a technical concern into a political one. It became obvious that medical data was the next frontier. The Consortium is the institutional answer to that context: independent, non-profit, open to government and experts alike.
Extraterritorial, organised without forming a legal entity
The Consortium is organised without forming a legal entity and operates under English law. Each participant and partner of the Consortium retains its own economic and legal independence.
This form was chosen deliberately: it allows state, private-sector, and international structures to gather around shared tasks without imposing a separate legal obligation on any party. It is neither a charitable foundation nor a commercial company, but a dialogue platform with its own charter and strategy, designed for long-term work.
What the Consortium sets out to do
- Advance the adoption of a national eHealth system aligned with international standards.
- Ensure an effective and secure transition of the sector to digital services.
- Educate and train medical and IT specialists in advanced digital-health technologies.
- Support pilot projects in digital healthcare.
- Harmonise Ukrainian standards with international norms in eHealth.
- Strengthen the cybersecurity of digital healthcare and medical information systems.
- Improve the functional interoperability of eHealth systems.
- Support the creation of a biometric identification platform.
Models the Consortium is built on
International experience shows that horizontal consortiums between state, business, and experts can set standards that shape entire industries for decades.
COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium
A coalition of IBM, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft, MIT, and NASA addressing the computational challenges of the pandemic — the closest precedent by both time and theme.
The Linux Foundation
A non-profit consortium that promotes, protects, and standardises Linux, and provides resources and services to the open-source community.