Today, Tatarstan citizens prefer making an online appointment to sitting in traditional queues. It saves time for something more important. According to the results of the first three months of the current year, citizens of the republic have made 3.8 million online appointments through terminals, Portal of State Services of the republic and Tatarstan Services mobile application, which makes 9 per cent more if compared to the same period last year.

On April 12, at the University of Innopolis, Deputy Prime Minister of the republic – Tatarstan Minister of Informatization and Communication Roman Shaykhutdinov, Tatarstan Minister of Education and Science Rafis Burganov and Governor of Altay region Viktor Tomenko, who arrived on a working visit in the republic, officially launched the All-Russian School Olympiad in Informatics and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and welcomed 256 its participants from 56 regions of the country.

On April 11, at the Kazan Expo International Exhibition Centre, Russian Venture Forum, which is the meeting venue of Russian and foreign participants of venture industry for 14 years, was officially launched. Over 200 applications from developers for participation in the Venture Forum were submitted and 50 of them were introduced there.  

On April 8, in Minsk, Deputy Prime Minister of the republic - Tatarstan Minister of Informatization and Communications Roman Shaykhutdinov took part in TIBO International Forum on Information and Communication Technologies.