TOMSK, Oct 17 – RIA Tomsk. The governor of the Tomsk region Sergey Zhvachkin and the vice-president for the corporate relations of Yandex Company Marina Yanina signed the memorandum of cooperation in the sphere of information technologies, which, in particular, provides joint educational projects, the press service of the region administration reported.
It is explained that the memorandum of cooperation was signed on Tuesday at the international forum "Open Innovations", which takes place in Moscow in science and technology park Skolkovo now.
Zhvachkin and the top manager of Yandex agreed about joint development of information and communication technologies, promoting of the Russian Internet services, implementation of educational projects in the sphere of computer literacy and development of Internet technologies. According to Zhvachkin, cooperation with Yandex will open new opportunities for innovative business in the region."The Tomsk region is distinguished by strong positions in intellectual mechanical engineering, automation of productions, radio electronics and other breakthrough branches. We actively develop information technologies for the real sector of economy, social sphere, and comfortable urban environment together with the Tomsk universities. These projects will be quicker and more effectively together with Yandex", – Zhvachkin's words are cited in the message.
The international forum "Open Innovations" takes place for the sixth time under the auspices of the Government of the Russian Federation. Its purpose is development and commercialization of the latest technologies, promoting of world technological brands and creation of new instruments of the international cooperation in the sphere of innovations.