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On January 12-13, at the University of Innopolis, as many as 43 students of 9-11 grades from Kazan, Yoshkar-Ola, Ufa, Innopolis, Yekaterinburg, Naberezhnye Chelny and Arsk took part in the Robohackathon and built robots based on e-designer Arduino and solved problems in physics and mathematics.
In order to promote the top-level domain .tatar, the Coordination Centre of the Regional Domain of Tatarstan together with the accredited registrar of domain names REG.RU hold an action: the first 100 applicants who meet the conditions can get a domain name and hosting for creating their own information resource.
Tatarstan Ministry of Informatization and Communication informs the citizens of the republic that maintenance works will be carried on January 16.
On January 15, 2001, Wikipedia officially appeared - a publicly available multilingual online encyclopedia with free content. Its name is derived from the English words wiki (borrowing from the Hawaiian language, "fast") and encyclopedia ("encyclopedia").
On December 22, Tatarstan Ministry of Informatization and Communications awarded winners and prize-winners of the contest of schoolchildren’s creative works “Tatarstan is always in touch!”, dedicated to a significant date - 130 years anniversary of telephone communications in the republic. Children from different cities and regions of Tatarstan attended this solemn event.
On December 14, the University of Innopolis opened GIS Tech Russia Conference on geographic information, which brought together leading experts in the development and implementation of geographic information systems, representatives of authorities and industrial companies of the country.
According to the results of 11 months of the current year, Tatarstan ranks first among 85 regions in issuing e-sick lists. Since the launch of the project in July 2017, about 330,000 e-sick lists have been issued in Tatarstan. Over 2,200 e-lists are issued in the republic every day.
On December 13, during their working visit to Russia, the members of business delegation of Indian companies, who visited Innopolis, said that Innopolis is interesting for Indian IT companies as a place to enter the Russian market and that companies residents of a special economic zone are promising partners for Indian business. The Confederation of Indian Industry and Startups (CII) together with the Embassy of India in the Russian Federation organized the business mission of Indian IT companies. The Indian delegation included both heads of large IT companies and representatives of small start-ups.
During the Subscriber’s Decade, a charity campaign “The Tree of Good” is held in the central office of the Russian Post in Kazan. Staff of Tatarstan Ministry of Informatization and representatives of Tatmedia Information agency took part in the event.
On December 12, the second industry championship in IT and IoT technologies on WorldSkills standards started at the Kazan Expo International Exhibition Centre.