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Seminar “Current tasks of IT development of the Russian Post” will open tomorrow in Ramada hotel in Kazan. Tatarstan Minister of Information and Communication Roman Shaikhutdinov, Deputy Director General of the Russian Post Andrey Khorobrykh, Acting Head of Technology and Information Department Oleg Artemov, Head of Telecommunications Department Konstantin Lobachev, Director of Tatarstan Post Regina Kuznetsova, 87 Deputy IT Directors of branches of the Russian Post, Lenovo, Microsoft, HP, Oracle Nederland, Intel and other companies will take part in the event.

We would like to invite you to a panel discussion «IT ecosystem: What is it made of?» organised by Innopolis and Russian Ministry of Communication and Mass Media on October 31 at 4 p.m. (Moscow, Crocus Expo, hall 10).

Chairman of the Commission on developing information society of the Federation Council Ruslan Gattarov, Tatarstan Minister of Information and Communication Roman Shaikhutdinov, Fujitsu Director General for Russia and CIS Vitaly Friedland, Microsoft President in Russia Nikolay Pryanishnikov, CEO of IT cluster in Skolkovo Igor Bogachev, and Director of High Technology Park “IT park” Anton Grachev took part in the first plenary session of “Informatization as a driver of country’s economic growth and increase of life quality in regions”. The moderator of the discussion was Deputy Chief Editor of “Vedomosti” newspaper Aleksandr Gubsky.

Seminar “Pilot project “Electronic disability certificate” opened in Kazan IT park on October 17. Representatives of central office of Social insurance Fund, federal and regional executive authorities, and Russian union of industrialists and entrepreneurs will discuss readiness of regions for implementing electronic disability certificate.

Informatization of society and active adoption of e-government principles are priority tasks of development of Russian regions. Informatization of state services, education, medicine and other social and economic spheres is a major project that requires big investments, and at the same time it can increase region’s competitiveness and quality of life.

The 2012 statistics says that Yandex is one of the largest Russian IT companies and the 4th company among world’s search engines. It is the company that employs best specialists, the company that always tries something new and introduces new services. One of such services will be presented at Kazan IT park on October 10 at 18.30.