Google opens temporary office in Kazan

Tatarstan Minister of Information and Communication Roman Shaikhutdinov told about arrangements reached during St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. In particular, Google is willing to become Tatarstan partner in many educational projects, one of which is IT-champion contest, and open a temporary office in Kazan.

“We’ve been working with Google within a few months and we decided to expand our cooperation on the educational project in the sphere of electronic state services - IT-champion. We have also agreed with Cisco company on opening an accreditation centre for specialists in Kazan.

During our meeting with SAP we discussed opening of a competence service centre, with IBM, Cisco and Microsoft - issues of cooperation within the framework of Innopolis project. I’m very glad that international companies are interested in Tatarstan,” Roman Shaikhutdinov said.

To the point, two memorandums on mutual understanding were signed with Singapore Technologies Electronics Limited and IDA International Pte at the forum.