Time magazine selected Ukraine's Diia mobile application's online marriage service as one of the best inventions of 2024, the magazine's website reported on 30 October.
The digital service, developed by Ukraine's Digital Transformation Ministry, allows couples to apply, propose, and get married entirely online, even when partners are separated by hundreds of kilometers or active military service.
The Diia app has become a comprehensive digital governance platform. Beyond marriage services, it provides access to official documents like passports and driver's licenses and enables business registration and tax payments. Over 20 million Ukrainians using its approximately 130 services as of early August.
"This may seem like a stark way of declaring love, but it was designed to help many Ukrainian couples physically separated by Russia's invasion to continue their lives," Time reported.
Since the service launched in September, over 1.1 million Ukrainians have used the platform to make marriage proposals, and 435 couples have successfully married online.
As of 20 September, official data from the Digital Transformation Ministry reveals that 251 couples have married through Diia, with 3,200 marriage applications submitted. The platform recorded almost 830,000 proposals, with 106,000 receiving affirmative responses.
Time's recognition places the online marriage service alongside other inventions, including Huawei's triple-screen smartphone and innovative medical technologies.
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