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Our Projects
Helping civil society initiatives solve IT challenges
Belarusian civil society has a great deal of initiatives working in domains like democracy, freedom of speech, culture, education, etc. We believe all of them need a simple and tractable way to solve IT challenges they face without necessarily building IT teams of their own. Our members offer these initiatives professional pro-bono help in standing up websites, chatbots, analytics, SMM tools and other IT tools they need to effectively solve their challenges.
Request help at board@it-talaka.org or use Contact Form.
Representing Belarusian IT around the globe
We’re building connections with tech-companies, regulators, government agencies, non-government organizations and nonprofits around the world to advocate solving IT-related problems which affect Belarusians. Topics we’re advocating for: protecting freedom of speech and resisting censorship in Belarus internet, adding support for belarusian language in major IT products, softening and improving regulations allowing belarusian IT specialists to work and live abroad.
Telegram support bot
Initiatives and media often need a way to connect with their audiences via a telegram support bot. Standing up a bot like this requires either using a third-party vendor or dedicating effort to host and support one of the open source products available. Historically both options were challenging for belarusian civil society initiatives: tools from third-party vendors impose security and privacy concerns whereas hosting open source solutions needs an IT team. We’re building a free telegram support bot as a service hosted by IT-Talaka with a clear legal and privacy model.
Our Team
Aleksandrina Kalesnikava
Since graduating from BSU in Minsk I have been involved for many years in the development of embedded software as well as user interfaces for various systems in the field of radio and telecommunications.
In my free time I actively volunteer in many projects and initiatives of RAZAM e.V.
Alaksiej Stankievič
For the last years he worked as data scientist recommendation systems served on the clouds. He served as member and chair of Works Council to represent interest of his colleagues in the Germany legal framework. His a member of RAZAM e.V. Alaksiej is interested in math, linguistic and video-blogging.
Denis Bruev
Founder and ex-chairman of RAZAM e.V. He has extensive experience as a senior embedded software developer and technical account manager in a company specializing in environmental radiation protection. He graduated from BNTU Minsk and is passionate about embedded technologies and environmental protection. In his free time, Denis volunteers and organizes cultural and social projects for the Belarusian community in Bavaria, such as the "Munhenschyna Fest" and "Minsk&Minga festival."
Anton Niadzelka
One of the founders and ex-chairman of RAZAM e.V. For the last years he worked as a software engineer on highly available, scalable k8s-based systems. He graduated from BSU Minsk and received master’s title in Data and Knowledge Engineering in OvGU Magdeburg, Germany. Anton is interested in open source and federated software.
Alex Khomich
IT Manager and Entrepreneur who have been working in IT for more then 20 years. I’ve started as software developer, and through my career I’ve seen all stages of software development from start-up pitch to great success/failure. As a former CEO of ‘Education 4 future’ I had been promoting engineering education for kids, and ‘critical thinking’ mindset for teacher all over Belarus. I strongly believe that Belarusian people could achieve great results together, whatever we do
Key Partners
Apply for membership
We invite all Belarusians working in IT-related professions to join us – this applies to developers, QAs, designers, SMM specialists and everyone else related to IT.
IT-Talaka is registered in Germany but we have members from 6 countries and welcome new members from all over the world. Use the options below to apply or contact us for more information.
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