OREANDA-NEWS. December 7, 2010. In Samara VolgaTelecom’s General Director Vladimir I. Rybakin and Andrey Polenets – General Director of Iskratel Group (Slovenia Republic) signed Memorandum of Cooperation in telecommunications services. The Memorandum was signed in the presence of Vladimir Artyakov – Samara oblast Governor and Danilo Turka – the President of Slovenia Republic within the framework of the state visit to Samara oblast of the President of Slovenia Republic and Russian-Slovenian business-forum.

In accordance to the Memorandum VolgaTelecom and Iskratel Group are planning to carry out joint activities of further modernization of information and telecommunications infrastructure in the territory of the Volga Federal District with a view of ensuring sustainable social and economic development of the Volga region.

In memorandum the parties defined the following objectives of mutually beneficial cooperation:

- development of economy of the Volga Federal District on the basis of using innovation, information and telecommunications technologies; 

- generation of modern information and telecommunications infrastructure, including “E-Government” in the territory of the Volga Federal District, and provision on its basis and ensuring high level of availability of information and technologies for the region’s population;

- provision of technological basis of improvement of quality of education, medical care, social protection of population on the basis of development and use of telecommunications technologies of new generation; 

- development of technologies, training of qualified staff in IT and telecommunications technologies;

- creation of conditions for reducing digital imparity between urban and rural residents of the region;

- expansion of public-private partnership and international business cooperation.