NEWS

The Unified state information system “Electronic health care of the Republic of Tatarstan” is being implemented at all Tatarstan medical institutions to make the process of booking doctor’s appointment easier and coordinate work of specialists.

Due to a large amount of work performed by Tatarstan Ministry of Information and Communication, employees of Tatarstan libraries now use video and voice communication to exchange information.

151, 000 payments for the sum of 180 million roubles were made on the portal uslugi.tatarstan.ru last month. The sum of payments has increased twice for one year.

In February 2014 22, 000 requests were sent to the regional system of interdepartmental interaction. The most popular information provider is Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography.

Meetings and fund-raising campaigns are being held in many Russian regions to support multi-ethnic people of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. Employees of Tatarstan Ministry of Information and Communication also decided to support Crimean and transferred their daily salaries to the account of charity foundation “Ak Bars Sozidanie”.

Tatarstan Ministry of Information and Communication will organize open data hackathon for programmers and contests for designers and journalists to promote applied open data solutions.

Selection round for educational grants for MA programme Software Engineering was held in Kazan in March. 34 candidates took part in the event. They were interviewed by representatives of IT companies, such as Mail.ru, NVision GROUP, Acronis, Futjitsu GDC, Bars Group, Informatica, and rector of Innopolis University Aleksandr Tormasov.

Rails Girls, a world-known training for girls in the sphere of development of applications using Ruby Programming Language started at Kazan IT park on March 15. About 100 girls from Kazan, Ulianovsk, and other town came to Kazan to create their own blogs.

A three-day seminar in robotics for 58 teachers from Tatarstan comprehensive schools and institutions of additional education started today at Baitik computer camp. The event is held with the auspices of LEGO education and ICL KPO-VS on the threshold of World Robot Olympiad (November, 2014, Moscow).

On March 13 Minister of Information and Communication Roman Shaikhutdinov, employees of the Ministry of Education and Science, Volga Federal University, Centre of information technologies and Innopolis University took part in a meeting on organisation of the International Olympiad in Informatics 2016 at Kazan IT park.