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MTS, a digital ecosystem, has opened the application process for participation in the All-Russian championship in algorithmic and robotic programming True Tech Champ. The final will be held in the format of show coding and robot race, the winners will receive large cash prizes of up to 4 million roubles per team.

In 2024, the Russian Federation will chair BRICS. Russia, represented by the Agency for the Development of Professions and Skills, is a permanent member of the BRICS Business Council Working Group on Professional Training, Applied Technologies and Innovations. The key project of the working group, supported by the leaders of BRICS countries in the framework of the XV Summit, is the international BRICS Future Skills Championship.

The IT Park of Naberezhnye Chelny together with the Federation of Sports Programming of Tatarstan organize the first competition in sports programming in the Zakamsky region, which is aimed at developing the human resources potential of the IT industry of the republic and popularizing programming as a sports discipline in the Zakamsky region, identifing and supporting talented programmers, as well as inspiring young people to study and develop in information technology. The prize fund of the competition amounts to 80,000 roubles and is provided by the partners of the championship:

The high-tech technopark "IT Park" took part in the Kazan Digital Week 2024 International Forum held at the Kazan Expo International Exhibition Centre on September 9-11, 2024.

"IT-Planet" Information Technology Development Centre announces the start of the first qualifying round of the competition for open system software Open OS Challenge 2024.

Tsifrium, together with the School League, invites teachers and students in grades 5-11 to take part in AI Week to be held from October 10 to October 17, 2024.

Russian Information Technology Development Foundation starts accepting applications for participation in the selection of grant recipients for the implementation of particularly significant projects for the introduction of Russian IT solutions.

Buying a smartphone for a child at the beginning of the school year is not only a good reason to please the schoolchild, but also a lot of worries that parents will have to face in order to protect their child from cyber threats. 

In August, Letay increased data transfer speeds in 13 settlements of Tatarstan and prepared networks for major cultural, entertainment and sports events. For the Day of the Republic and Kazan, the operator increased the capacity of base stations (BS) in more than 30 sectors, including by installing mobile telecom facilities. Thus, in the capital of Tatarstan, 6.1 thousand subscribers were registered at the Kazan Family Center on the holiday.

Experts of the Cyberthreat Counteraction Center Innostage SOC CyberART conducted a study of hacking activity in the Russian IT segment for the summer season 2024, identifying key trends in attacks by cyber intelligence tools using open data (OSINT).