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.
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