Results of regional contest “IT champion” were summarized at Kazan IT park on December 28. Tatarstan Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov presented awards to the winners.
The contest was held among children and was aimed at promoting state and municipal services in electronic format. 253 thousand pupils took part in the contest. They taught 320 thousand adults to work on the Portal of state and municipal services, helped to register personal accounts and make payments. By results of each round, three most active pupils from every municipal region were awarded with iPads.
Pupils could reveal their skills in programming, design, PR, offer original ideas to improve electronic services in a creative nomination “Development of the Portal of state and municipal services”.
When the contest was launched in March 2013, there were 325 thousand personal accounts on the portal, whereas now there are 900 thousand accounts registered.
The contest helped to increase the number of monthly rendered services in Tatarstan by 60 per cent.
In May 2013 the contest “IT champion” was announced the best project of All-Russia contest “PROF-IT” of regional and municipal informational support in nomination “Promotion of electronic government services”.
Today, Minister of Information and Communication Roman Shaikhutdinov and Minister of Education and Science Engel Fattakhov presented awards in creative nomination.
Ildar Khalikov noted merits of teachers and directors of schools, who supported their pupils. He also informed that in accordance with Tatarstan President’s decision, the contest will be held in 2014.
On 1 April Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin and Russian Minister of Healthcare Mikhail Murashko introduced Ayrat Farrakhov, who was appointed the Acting Rector of Kazan State Medical University (KSMU) to its staff.
In his speech Mikhail Murashko emphasized that today KSMU is rightfully considered one of the most respected in the country and said:”Ayrat (Zakievich) has been officially appointed the Acting Rector and I am sure that under his leadership the University will maintain the positions it has achieved and, of course, will continue its development.”
On 31 March in the Government House of the republic Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister Leyla Fazleeva hold a meeting of the Commission on the Russian language under the Rais of Tatarstan, which considered key issues of supporting and developing Russian language, including new educational initiatives and discussed programmes of popularization of Russian literature and activities to preserve the language heritage.
On 28 March, speaking at a meeting held by Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin in the Government House of the republic with participation of the Acting Chairman of the State Council of the republic Marat Akhmetov and all municipalities taking part in it via videoconference, the regional Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources Azat Ziganshin informed that the regional central cleaning up action will be held in the republic on 25 April and clarified that the location of the national cleanup day will be announced later as the site will be chosen taking into account the opinions of Tatarstan residents.
On 28 March, speaking at a meeting held by Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin in the Government House of the republic with participation of the regional and the Acting Chairman of the State Council of the republic Marat Akhmetov and all municipalities taking part in it via videoconference, the regional Deputy Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing Utilities Sector Damir Shaydullin informed about statistics on the collection of utility bills payments from the population and data on the payment discipline of enterprises and organizations of the republic.