OREANDA-NEWS  On 21 October was announced, that the international 11th Forum of Innovations took place in Tomsk from 10 to 12 October 2008. Tomsk became once more a ground for discussing problems connected with innovation economics. Sibirtelecom was a partner of the Forum.

More than 1,000 participants came to the Forum of Innovations including representatives of business elite, diplomatic missions of foreign countries, leaders of investment companies, venture and innovation funds, leaders of banking sphere, representatives of scientific society. In opinion of the participants, the Forum got a higher status and wider geography. The Forum was attended by representatives of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, as well as representatives of three ministries (Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Ministry of Regional Development of the Russian Federation, and Ministry of Economical Development of the Russian Federation), RF Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and the Russian Union of Manufacturers and Entrepreneurs.

Eight round tables were organized at the Forum where the participants discussed urgent problems of innovation activity. Aleksander Isaev, the General Director of Sibirtelecom, OJSC, took an active part in the work of the round table ‘Informational Technologies In Innovative Development of Science, Education and Society’, he set the pace to the discussion. ‘Innovations is not only rapid introduction of certain ideas, but it is also technical changes, first of all – changes in the consciousness of people’, marked Aleksander Isaev. ‘Only the people who are able to think in a new way and to see perspectives can introduce innovations. And it is information field on the territory of a region or a country that plays a great role in the formation of contemporary view on life and technologies. This field is rapidly developing, and we, being an innovative company, take active part in this process. Sibirtelecom comes to meet innovations. Today, we base our activity on three key aspects – we change technology, structure and content’.

Active position of Sibirtelecom, OJSC even now provides realization of large-scale programs on the development of informational communications, outlined in the program ‘Russia-2020’.