NEWS

During the enrollment campaign to the Higher School of Information Technologies and Intelligent Systems of KFU, applicants submitted over 900 applications for 80 allocated budget places at the IT faculty. Enrollment to the contracted form of training continues.

On August 6, during the traditional Hour of the IT entrepreneur held at Tatarstan Ministry of Informatization and Communication, Regional Minister of Information and Communication Airat Khayrullin had a meeting with representatives of the IT community to hear their questions, ideas and suggestions.

Tatarstan Ministry of Informatization and Communication informs citizens of the republic that maintenance works will be carried out at the radio television centre in Leninogorsk.

The Kazan Federal University announced students who will receive a Russian President during the next academic year. Aleksey Leukhin, a second-year master’s student of the Higher School of Information Technologies and Intelligent Systems of the Kazan Federal University is among them.

Until August 23, Tatarstan Ministry of Economy is accepting applications from non-profit organizations implementing socially significant projects for subsidies from the regional budget.

The projects related to the development of civil society institutions and civic initiatives and the establishment of conditions for improving the quality of life of citizens are considered. These include the development of charity, mass sports, digital education, events dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic and other areas.

To the attention of IT-entrepreneurs!

If you have questions to Tatarstan Minister of Informatization and Communications and ideas that will help to improve the work of the Ministry and contribute to the development of the economy of the republic that you are invited to IT Entrepreneur Hour to the Ministry every Tuesday at 14:00.

A chatbot, being tested on the Official Portal of Tatarstan State Services, can analyze user questions, find the information they need and have a dialogue both independently and with the help of an operator.

During eight months since the start of the implementation of a pilot project in Almetyevsk on the recognition of faces using cameras, the system helped to arrest 7 criminals and 26 people who committed administrative offenses. According to the results of technology testing, Tatarstan Ministry of Informatization and Communications together with Regional Ministry of Internal Affairs are developing proposals for further implementation of the system in other regions of the republic.

The Interregional Center of Competencies - the Kazan Technical College of Information Technology and Communications starts the next enrolment to free training in new areas: video production, graphic design and mobile robotics. Additional education for women of 51–55 years and men of 56–60 years is available under the federal project “Older Generation” of Demography national project.

On July 29, speaking at a meeting with telecom operators at Tatarstan Ministry of Informatization and Communications, Director of Interregional Infrastructure Group (MIG) Mikhail Gusev said that about 70 of 100 planned communication towers have already been built to date.