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Rostelecom and Ericsson companies hold an annual contest “Together to digital future” for representatives of the media sphere. Regional journalists and bloggers who write about new technologies, innovative development, trends in the IT sphere are invited to take part in the contest.
On February 15, Tatarstan Minister of Informatization and Communication Roman Shaykhutdinov took part in a meeting of the Council of Chistopol municipal region of the republic, which summed up the results of social and economic development of the region in 2018 and set tasks for 2019.
On February 15, Deputy Prime Minister of the republic –Tatarstan Minister of Informatization and Communication Roman Shaykhutdinov took part in a solemn opening of a new building of multifunctional State and municipal service centre in Chistopol (the town of the republic).
On February 13, on the sidelines of Volga Agroindustrial Forum,
General Director of the Innopolis Special Economic Zone Renat Khalimov introduced the Agrotech consortium to Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov.
The Agrotech will include the resident companies of the Innopolis Special Economic Zone Innopolis and leading Russian agro-industrial enterprises, which will develop and implement the digital technologies in agriculture. To date, a total of four companies from the Innopolis SEZ and six other Russian companies have joined the consortium.
On February 12, Russian President Vladimir Putin, who arrived on a working visit in Kazan to take part in an extended Presidium meeting of the State Council of the Russian Federation on improving the living conditions of the population and creating a comfortable urban environment, got acquainted with the project of Innopolis.
People's Inspector mobile application received over 80,000 appeals on violation of traffic rules in 2018. The applications were considered and over 70 per cent of road traffic offenders were imposed fines.
The representatives of the Laboratory of Intelligent Robotic Systems of the Higher School of Information Technologies and Intelligent Systems of the Kazan Federal University will hold a series of thematic lectures, under the Science Week.
On February 1, the second stage of the IT-Champion contest for schoolchildren and their parents started in Tatarstan. The main task of the young participants of the contest is to involve parents and adults in the active use of e-services on the Portal of State Services of the republic and get the maximum number of reward points. The contest, held by the Ministry of Informatization and Communication of the republic together with the Ministry of Education and Science of the republic is aimed at developing digital skills of schoolchildren and improve computer literacy of the population.
On February 6, speaking at a summing up meeting of Tatarstan Ministry of Informatization and Communication, Director General of the Innopolis Special Economic Zone Renat Halimov said that the investment of the Innopolis residents more than doubled in 2018.
On February 5, in the city of Innopolis, at a summing up meeting of the Ministry of Informatization and Communication of the republic, Tatarstan Minister of Informatization and Communication Roman Shaykhutdinov and Director of the Association of Innovative Regions of Russia Ivan Fedotov signed a cooperation agreement on development of digital economy of Tatarstan.