Democracy & Human Development is a foundation established by Alisa Ryzhychenka and Valery Matskevich. Its purpose is to strengthen Belarus's human capital and to advance the country's economic and technological development.
What we do
- Build working models. ARIA AI School, Belsoe.org, the Belarus Democracy Token and the Belarus 2.0 concept are the Foundation's initiatives: each is a working part of a larger development model, launched and publicly accountable.
- Prepare reforms. State-sector and privatisation reform, tax and procurement reform, pension reform and the Economic Development Strategy 2035 — the policy work a democratic Belarus can use on day one.
- Invest in people. Skills, retraining and technology are the cheapest investment with the fastest return — for a person and for a country.
- Work transparently. Every initiative publishes its documents, numbers and results on this platform.
Why
Belarus has no oil, gas or rare metals. It has people. The only development model that fits the country is the one that turned Estonia, Ireland, Israel and Singapore into prosperous economies: invest in education, science and technology — and build an economic environment in which human capital turns into growth. The Foundation exists to make that model real, not to describe it.
