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As many as 80 schoolchildren of 9-11 grades from 26 regions of the country became "Graduates" of the first design school of the University of Innopolis. During two weeks, they developed projects in the area of information security, distributed registry systems, robotics, geoinformation systems, and chat bots for personalization of content. 

Tatarstan Ministry of Informatization and Communication informs the citizens of Leninogorsk that maintenance works will be carried on September 12-14 and September 17-21.

The topic of managing large data to increase profits and operational efficiency will become one of the key issues at the World Digital Summit on Internet Technologies of Things in Kazan. Peter Jackson, Director of Data Management of the British company Southern Water will share the experience of applying the Big Data analysis.

According to Hi-Tech publication, the Siemens electronics manufacturer together with the ViP Verkehrsbetrieb Potsdam passenger transport operator will test an unmanned tram in Potsdam in Germany. The tram is built on the basis of the Combino train and is equipped with a complex of radars, lidars and cameras - the same instruments, which autonomous vehicles are equipped. The vehicle will be able to recognize traffic signals, stop at the right stops and wait until all passengers enter the tram.

On September 6, in the Kazan Federal University, under Tatarstan Oil, Gas and Petrochemicals Forum – 2018, the second day of International Scientific and Practical Conference "Pressing issues of geodesy and geoinformation systems” was held.

Major repair have been carried out in the hostel for students of the Interregional Competence Center - Kazan Technical College of Information Technology and Communications. The renovated building was opened on the eve of the new school year.

On September 5, Deputy Prime Minister of the republic – Tatarstan Minister of Informatization and Communication Roman Shaykhutdinov made a presentation of Interregional Competence Centre - the Kazan Technical College of Information Technology and Communications to Deputy Minister of Education of Russia Irina Potekhina, who arrived on a working visit in Kazan.

On September 5, on the International Day of Charity, Tatarstan Ministry of Informatization and Communication together with industry enterprises held a charity event presenting school bags to 23 first-graders, children of the All Together Fund. Disabled children, orphans, children from low-income families were among them.

The mass enrollment of children into pre-school educational institutions for the 2018/19 academic year in Tatarstan has finished. On April 1, it started in Kazan and Naberezhnye Chelny and on June 1, throughout the republic and ended on August 31.

On October 1-2, experts of the rating agency SGM and the "Higher School of Economics" will share their vision of the development of Smart City technologies at the World Digital Summit on the Internet of Things in Kazan.

Director of the Institute for Regional Studies and Urban Planning at the Higher School of Economics Irina Ilina said that a city in which problems are solved with the help of modern technologies and with the active participation of the entire population and municipal authorities can be called "Smart".