On February 19, Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin signed a decree appointing Bulat Gabdrakhmanov to the post of a new Deputy Minister of Digitalization of Tatarstan, who earlier worked as the Head of the Department of Digital Transformation in Culture, Education and Youth Policy in the Digital Transformation Centre of Tatarstan.
From February 21 to March 3, the Kazan TV tower will turn on a thematic scenario of architectural and artistic lighting dedicated to the holding of the first international multi-sport tournament in the phygital concept “Games of the Future 2024” in Kazan. The colorful dynamic light show will be observed from 5:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.
On February 15, Mamadysh municipal region of the republic hosted the opening of the training programme of IT specialties on the basis of IT park branch sites. The programme is aimed at developing IT entrepreneurship in municipal areas for the national project Digital Economy of the Russian Federation, initiated by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
On February 15, under the bus marathon “Tatarstan – the republic of Achievements”, the House of Culture in Leninogorsk hosted the panel discussion moderated by the journalist, presenter of State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company "Tatarstan" Dmitry Vtorov, where Tatarstan Minister of Digitalization of Public Administration, Information Technologies and Communications Ayrat Khayrullin, Head of Leninogorsk municipal region Ryagat Khusainov were the speakers. A photo exhibition about the main achievements of Tatarstan was organized in the foyer of the House of Culture.
On February 6, the Bashir Rameev IT Park hosted an extended meeting of working group No. 15 held under the leadership of People’s Deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, a member of the State Duma Committee for the Protection of Competition Aydar Raisovich Metshin, which discussed the work plans for 2024 under the working group’s activities, including for the purposes of the national project “Digital Economy of the Russian Federation”.
MegaFon Telecommunication Company commissioned base stations on the M 12 highway in Tatarstan. Telecom facilities of the LTE standard were launched in the Laishevsky and Verkhneuslonsky egions of the republic.
On January 30, in Moscow, under the 24th International Scientific and Practical Conference «New Information Technologies in Education», an expanded meeting of the Federal educational and methodological association in the system of secondary vocational education for an integrated group of professions and specialties 09.00.00 “Informatics and Computer Science” took place.
MTS, a digital ecosystem, launched high-speed mobile Internet in small settlements of the Yelabuga and Mamadysh regions of Tatarstan. The operator installed new LTE equipment here and upgraded the existing network, which improved coverage and increased the speed of mobile Internet for villagers by 30 percent.
On February 6, the Kazan campus of “School 21” celebrates its birthday.
As gifts for participants and guests, experts of the school and Technohab Sber prepared useful lectures. Speakers will inform about motivation for development in IT and share the engineering practices of existing programmers.
On January 31, Leading specialist of Tatarstan Ministry of Digitalization of Public Administration, Information Technologies and Communications Farida Shaymullina was carried out on a well-deserved rest.