NEWS
On January 30, speaking at a meeting of the Presidential Council for the Local Self-Government Development, Russian President Vladimir Putin emphasized the successful experience of Tatarstan in the communication between the state and society with digital technologies.
A professor of computer science at the American University of Washington Mark Nelson ranked institutions Active in Technical Games Research. He rated the activity of 2140 game researchers from 706 universities in the world. Innopolis University took 87th place and became the only Russian university in the list.
On January 27, during a summing up meeting of Tatarstan Ministry of Digitalization of Public Administration, Information Technologies and Communications, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov and Deputy Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of Russia Aleksey Volin handed in state awards to the most distinguished employees of the industry.
On January 16, at the Ministry of Digitalization of Public Administration, Information Technologies and Communications of Tatarstan, Digital Minister Airat Khairullin, Minister of Labor, Employment and Social Protection of the republic Elmira Zaripova, Project Manager for Poverty Reduction by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development in the Russian Federation (World Bank) Nitin Umapati , specialists from the Center for Digital Transformation, Tatarstan Information Technology Centre, the BARS Group and representatives of the World Bank and ministries of the republic took part in a meeting on the digitalization of state social assistance services to residents of Tatarstan.
On January 16, at the Ministry of Digitalization of Public Administration, Information Technologies and Communications, a meeting with senior executives of Ak Bars Bank took place.
Submission of applications for Together to a Digital Future contest for regional journalists and bloggers, held by Rostelecom Company for the ninth time, has started. A subsidiary of NEC Corporation - NEC Neva Communication Systems Company became the partner again.
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree reducing the threshold for entry into the Chelny Advanced Development Territory. Due to the new document, platforms for the development of new technologies can become the residents of the Naberezhnye Chelny Territory.
According to the decree, the resident’s total investment in the project should be not less than 20 million roubles instead of 50 million. Moreover, the volume of investments should be 2.5 million in the first year, whereas before it was 5 million. The requirements for the number of staff also decreased, instead of 30 people, only 15 are enough.
Russian fund of information technology development started accepting applications for participation in the competitive selection of grant recipients for projects on the development of domestic software and increase its share in the digital economy, as well as the development of technological solutions for the creation of federal and regional state information resources using technology of distributed registries; the introduction of methods and technologies for processing and storing information.
On December 28, Tatarstan Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources hosted a meeting on digitalization of the environmental issues in Tatarstan.
On December 28, Tatarstan Ministry of Digitalization of Public Administration, Information Technologies and Communications held an anti-corruption meeting of the commission with the participation of the Public Council.