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Consideration of applications for co-financing of IT companies from the federal budget for supporting small and medium-size entrepreneurship was held at IT-park in Kazan and Naberezhnye Chelny. The programme is implemented under the auspices of Kama center of cluster development of small and medium-size entrepreneurship.

Problems of radio coverage of mobile communication were discussed at a working meeting of Roman Shaikhutdinov and Director General of Megafon PJSC Sergey Soldatenkov.

Tatarstan Ministry of Information and Communications and Ministry of Health have worked on optimization of software in electronic queuing terminals that are used for booking appointments with a doctor. All 325 terminals installed at medical organizations have been updated. The interface has become more usable.

On July 11, at their meeting at Tatarstan Government House, President of the republic Rustam Minnikhanov and Director General of Megafon PJSC Sergey Soldatenkov discussed development of mobile communication in the region. According to Sergey Soldatenkov, the company finished modernization of 2G networks in Tatarstan in 2016.

25,000 appeals were published in the Public control system for the first half of 2017, which is by 7 per cent more than for the same period last year. The share of resolved appeals has made 73 per cent.

Resident of Innopolis Special Economic Zone, “Open Mobile platform” has developed a technological prototype of smartphone with two operating systems. One of them is Android, another one is a protected Russian system Sailfish Mobile OS RUS. The system is being tested on Sony Xperia X.

On July 7, the delegation from Control Department of Vietnamese Government visited Kazan IT-park. Director of IT-park Anton Grachev told about most successful projects of technopark, and resident of Business incubator, Head of Air Technology startup Maria Shablinskaya presented a unique system of air signals of small pilotless vehicles.

A joint session of the Public council under Tatarstan Ministry of Information and Communications was held today. The session was chaired by the former Minister of communications Rinat Zalyalov. Representatives of regional trade union of communication workers of Tatarstan, communications organizations, educational organizations, deputies of the State Council of the republic took part in the session.

Tatarstan Ministry of Information and Communications and Ministry of culture are implementing the joint project on introducing the unified library pass. It will let readers using services of any of 1500 regional libraries.

Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov accompanied by Minister of Information and Communications Roman Shaikhutdinov, Minister of Industry and Trade Albert Karimov and other officials visited Boeing design and training centers in Moscow. President of Boeing Russia Sergey Kravchenko told about the history of Boeing in Russia and main projects of the company.