US Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine

I am very happy to welcome participants to the online "Corporate Governance in Ukraine" conference organized by Ukrainian Distance Learning, March 18-31, 2002.

This conference represents an opportunity to hold a crucial discussion in a forum well suited for busy individuals. I do not use the term "crucial" loosely. Improving corporate governance is as essential to increasing both domestic and foreign investment as investment is to creating the type of business environment that will allow Ukrainian entrepreneurs to build and expand their businesses. <…> (you can find the whole letter at our web-site)
By focusing on corporate governance and creating a forum for sharing experience and insights, a forum of this type provides the opportunity for companies to improve their own practices while simultaneously working toward a consensus on how Ukraine as a whole can create an environment that will attract more investment. As you participate in this forum, you have the opportunity to learn from the experience of others, to exchange ideas about how to improve the current situation, and to increase awareness of the links between investment and good corporate governance.
I wish all of the participants in this forum success in your individual enterprises as well in your joint undertaking of improving corporate governance in Ukraine. By providing jobs, goods and services, your individual successes as business people add to your country's development and economic strength. By pursuing better corporate governance, you simultaneously add to an environment that will foster yet more growth and a better life for all Ukrainians. Like each of you, we at the U.S. Embassy support the development of a prosperous, democratic, independent Ukraine. It is for this reason that improving corporate governance ranks among our priorities for technical assistance.

Carlos Pascual
U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine

Without any doubt, this Internet Conference is an outstanding event in the process of search of the Ukrainian way of forming corporate relations and, I hope, a good start for regular meetings in the virtual environment for constructive discussions, exchange of experience and development of Ukrainian economy.

Yuriy Davydenko
Manager,
Stock market development program
Institute of reforms

It is a real pleasure for me to participate in this discussion. UDL System has done a terrific job in promulgating distance learning in Ukraine, and this conference is a major step in the usage of this technology. I wish all the best sucess and will follow the progress of the conference closely.

Yurij (George) Gamota
President,
Science and Technology Management Association

Let me express my gratitude for giving the opportunity to discuss problems, which are without exaggeration vital for the future of Ukrainian economy. Our mutual position, our ability to produce interesting and useful ideas define the answer to the question: “Will Ukraine obtain the features of civilized state in relations to its own corporations and their co-participants?” I’m especially grateful to the organizers of the Conference (in particular, Olha Mykhaylyuk) who have managed to make this timely and very important step.

Andriy Pedko

The Forum provides a unique opportunity for the three countries (Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova) to get acquainted and to share experiences in the area of social partnership, especially in terms of legal regulations, cooperation with government agencies and business structures.

Inna Gutyum
“Adept” Association, Moldova

Enough time has passed since the Forum for us to comprehend without emotions, in real life, that it has been an Essential Event. I believe everyone has taken something personal from it, but for me, and now - for our organization as well - this has been the beginning of a new loop of development, new understanding of many phenomena in the area of social partnership. <…> For me the [Forum] was very timely and useful, it gave me new knowledge and new vision…”

Valentina Sazonova
Association "Peace. Beauty. Culture", Ukraine

<…> Students have started to reconsider their attitude to life, use the knowledge obtained during the distance course in their real life, work, have assessed their colleagues differently.

Anna Mykhaylevskaya
Black Sea College of Information Technologies
e-mail: am@cdc.odessa.ua

The realized distance course has brought new ideas to the organization of educational programs and interaction between students and teachers (instructors) at the distance MBA program.

Andriy Kuz
Lviv Institute of Management
e-mail: andriy@lim.lviv.ua

The organization is proud with its achievement in conducting distance course. The management has reported on the successful collaboration with UDL System and its achievements in the area of distance education.

Vira Lyubchenko
Odesa National Polytechnic University
e-mail: veralub@farlep.net

All the participants have expressed the willingness to continue the collaboration with the UDL System and to have an online teaching practice using the platform.

I was among the first students who took UDL distance courses :) It was quite interesting and, first of all, useful. (First – I’ve got individual experience of distance learning, second – it’s interesting to hear the specialists’ opinions, to participate in the discussions, third – as a result of the discussions, to form my own opinion on the subject).

Lyudmyla Ostrivna
Sumy State University, Ukraine

We are glad to join your team. We are “frequenters” of this terrific center of DL. Here we always can find interesting (and useful!) courses.

Olha and Volodymyr Levoshko
Kirovograd Institute of Commerce, Ukraine

I have to admit that the possibility of virtual communication is very attractive and useful type of work in distance learning. I've enrolled in courses "Business Communication" and "Firm StartUp".

Olena Sobajeva,
Sumy, Ukraine

Distance form of learning allows me to study at a suitable time. The advantage of distance learning is independence (only technical dependence) and freedom of choosing.

Svitlana Furda,
Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine

Why do I prefer distance form of instruction? - Because of mobility of study and additional possibility to master up-to-date communication methods.

Tetyana Sych,
Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine

Distance Learning attracts me, first and foremost, with the possibility to communicate with others irrespective of their location... And certainly, it is very important that I can obtain necessary knowledge without leaving my native city and changing my working schedule dramatically.

Artem Afanasyev
Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine

I can obtain necessary knowledge, consultations, assistance and contacts without interrupting my main work, i.e. I save both money and time.

Vyacheslav Mizin
Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine

Your achievements in the latest information and educational technologies in western Ukraine are extremely interesting and praise-worthy. I am constantly keeping updated with your actions, activities, projects. I belong to those people for whom education is a continuous life-long process.

I.Dzyndra
Lviv National University named after I.Franko, Ukraine