NEWS

Winners of the first round of “IT champion” contest will be awarded at Kazan IT-park on September 20. The contest is organized by the Ministry of Information and Communications and Ministry of Education and Science and is aimed at promotion of the Portal of state and municipal services uslugi.tatarstan.ru. 102, 000 pupils take part in the contest.

Tatarstan citizens are sending more complaints about spontaneous parking to “Public control” system. As there are not enough spaces in the yards, some citizens take over spaces to park their cars. Therefore, there are many complaints about wheel boots and other barriers. Sometimes organizations place different plates on the roads.

On September 24 Taxnet group will hold a conference “Who manages company’s information security” at Kazan IT-park. The conference is aimed at telling companies’ managers and businessmen about information security in modern world and latest solutions in this sphere, organizing communication of IT specialists, top managers, businessmen, and government employees.

A weekly IT publication CRN/RE made up the rating of 25 best regional IT companies. According to data analysis, 11 IT companies are located in Volga Federal District, four of them in Tatarstan. Therefore, the Republic of Tatarstan makes considerable contribution to development of IT industry.

Results of the visit of Tatarstan delegation to Singapore were summarized by Tatarstan Minister of Information and Communications Roman Shaikhutdinov at a briefing at Tatarstan Government House.

GenerationS is a federal contest that helps accelerating technology startups. Since 2013, it has been run by the Russian Venture Company and the Moscow Center for Innovative Development, with support from the Government of Moscow.

On September 12, Tatarstan Minister of Information and Communications Roman Shaikhutdinov delivered two lectures for Tatarstan students.

174, 000 payments for the sum of 185 million roubles were made via the portal of state services, infomats and mobile application “Services of the Republic of Tatarstan”. For one year the sum of payments increased by 60 per cent.

A special mobile application “School eco-patrol” was presented to employees of Tatarstan Ministry of Ecology. The project was developed by Tatarstan Ministry of Ecology, Ministry of Information and Communications and Ministry of Education and Science.

A session of the Selection commission on awarding scholarships to students of Kazan communications school was held yesterday.