Ministries of the Republic of TatarstanMinistry of Digitalization of Public Administration, Information Technologies and Communications of the Republic of Tatarstan
Tatarstan IT-projects presented to Moscow journalists
23 February 2011, Wednesday
February,23. Delegation of journalists of federal mass media headed by TV talk-show hostess Tina Kandelaki visited Kazan IT-park. Officials of federal mass media were accompanied by RT President Rustam Minnikhanov. Projects in the sphere of IT-technologies were presented to the guests.
RT Vice-premier – Minister of info and communications Nikolai Nikiforov made the key presentation. He told journalists about the system “E-government”. Tina Kandelaki personally used application for electronic documents circulation on «iPad».
Nikolai Nikiforov told about implementation of IT-technologies in health care system of Nizhnekamsk city and widespread program “Electronic education” that is being realized in Tatarstan.
Vice-premier informed about plans of Tatarstan to create complete set of educational materials by all subjects and classes in electronic format.
In the course of presentation Tina Kandelaki contacted Director General of “Google Russia” Vladimir Dolgov via service “Skype”. Head of Russian office of well-known corporation noted major achievements of Tatarstan in IT-sphere and said “Google” sees many points of contact with republic.
Also the project of “IT-village”, Tatarstan elaborations in the sphere of rendering state services in electronic format were presented to the delegation.
Moscow journalists visited company “Bars group” – one of the leading developers of software for “E-government”, dispatcher centre “GLONASS+112” and other organizations on the territory of technopark.
On December 29, the weekly meeting of the digital industry of Tatarstan discusses the key achievements of the republic in the IT sector for 2025:
• Gross industry revenue—269 billion roubles (forecast, +35% year-on-year);
On December 22, at the final meeting of Interdepartmental working group No. 15 for the implementation of the national project "Data Economy and Digital Transformation of the State", Tatarstan Minister of Digitalization Ilya Nachvin welcomed the participants and summed up the work of the group for 2025 and presented impressive indicators for the development of the digital economy of Tatarstan.
At a weekly meeting, communication industry companies, subordinate organizations and heads of departments of Tatarstan Ministry of Digitalization of Public Administration, Information Technologies and Communications discussed key achievements in the communication industry and digital development in 2025.
On December 11, Moscow hosted this year's important IT events: the awards ceremony for the winners of the "Sprint to the Future - Code of Success!" award and the Sprint 2.0 Accelerator Demo Day.