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Tatarstan Ministry of Information and Communication, Ministry of Education and Science conducted training for employees of local educational authorities on working in the system “Electronic kindergarten”.

On May, 15, the 12th All-Russia conference “Teaching of information technologies in Russia” opened in Kazan. The conference is organized by the Association of enterprises of computer and information technologies and Higher School of Information Technologies and Systems of Kazan Federal University under the auspices of Tatarstan Government, Russian Ministry of Education and Science, Ministry of Communication and Mass Media, and Russian Union of rectors.

On May 15, finalists of VI festival of IT-jump project presented their projects at IT park. To the point, the contest “Young programmer” was held at children’s recreation camp “Baitik”.

On May 14, during her working trip to Tatarstan, Russian Minister of Health Veronika Skvortsova will get familiar with the Unified state information system “Electronic health care of the Republic of Tatarstan” that was created within the framework of programmes “Modernization of health care system of the Republic of Tatarstan in 2011-2012” and “Development and use of information and communication technologies in the Republic of Tatarstan” “Electronic Tatarstan”.

On May 13, Russian Minister of Communication Nikolay Nikiforov delivered a speech at an annual extended session of the ministry at press centre “Russia today”. You can see notes for the speech on the official website of Russian Ministry of Communication.

On May 12, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov met with Global Head of Transformational Strategy, Cisco International limited Matthew Smith at the Representative Office of the Republic of Tatarstan in Russia in Moscow.

On May 7, Deputy Minister of Information and Communication Azat Mubarakshyn congratulated veterans of Verkhny Uslon region on Victory Day.

230 new objects of social, transport and engineering infrastructure that were checked for accessibility for the disabled and people with limited mobility appeared after successful training of inspectors of municipal working groups responsible for creation and maintenance of informational database and accessibility map.

More than 74, 000 pupils from all Tatarstan regions took part in regional contest “IT champion”. Pupils taught more than 84, 000 citizens to work on the portal of state services. In 2014, participants of the contest gathered 260 650 scores.

Tatarstan Ministry of Education and Science, Ministry of Information and Communication, State unitary enterprise “Centre of information technologies of the Republic of Tatarstan”, OAO “AK BARS” BANK, and international payment system MasterCard Worldwide are launching an innovative project - “Pupil’s card” in Zelenodolsk region.