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Development of residents of the Innopolis Special Economic Zone in the area of solutions for the "smart city" is introduced at the Smart City Summit & Expo Annual International Exhibition held from March 26 to March 29 in Taipei. This is the largest Asian exhibition dedicated to "smart cities" and the "Internet of things", with more than 300 high-tech companies, city mayors, architects, real estate developers taking part in it.

On March 26, in Saint Petersburg, a meeting of the Council on Digital Economy Development under the Federation Council on the topic “Human capital as the main asset of the digital economy” was held.

Tatarstan citizens have access to a new category of appeals in the People's Control system, namely, everyone can send questions regarding the transition to digital television. On June 3, 2019, Tatarstan will fully adopt the digital broadcasting.

On March 25, in the city hall of Naberezhnye Chelny, meeting participants discussed the work of the local IT park. Mayor of the city Nail Magdeev urged the business representatives to get acquainted with the development of residents of the IT park.

The Innopolis Special Economic Zone and McFly.aero International Alliance the agreed on joint development and implementation of new transport systems based on aerotaxi. At the meeting between the representatives of the Zone, developers of air taxi and resident-companies, Director General of the Innopolis SEZ Renat Khalimov and Director General of McFly Russia Artem Kharchenko signed a memorandum on the joint development of an integrated technological complex of terrestrial infrastructure and air traffic control systems in Innopolis.

Kazan IT-Park will host a programme for the development of information technology projects held by the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech). The event includes several modules: neurohackathon, expert advice and work on projects.

An online survey to choose the priority public spaces, parks, squares, embankments, streets and other territories to be improved in 2020 under the Formation of a comfortable urban environment programme and the public spaces of Tatarstan was launched on the Portal of State Services of the republic.

On April 1 and 2, Naberezhnye Chelny will host a regional stage of the Open Innovations Startup Tour, the largest event in Russia and the CIS aimed at finding promising innovative projects. Start-ups will compete for a cash prize of 300,000 roubles.

On March 18, speaking at a meeting of the Supervisory Board of the Innopolis Special Economic Zone, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov said that the task of the managing company of the zone is to support new companies implementing their projects in the SEZ and the leadership of Tatarstan is ready to provide all the necessary support.

On March 18, the 33th selection of startup projects was held at Kazan IT-park. The expert jury approved 11 projects. A total of  130 applications  from all over Russia took part in the selection and 32 of them managed to get to internal stage.