OREANDA-NEWS. May 10, 2012. A poetry contest has been organized for children on the theme "My Motherland - Azerbaijan" with the support of “AtaTechnology” LLC and “Excelsior Hotel Baku”, reported the press-centre of AtaHolding.

According to AtaHolding, the contest involved 55 children from various children’s homes. The jury included AtaTechnology’s director Mais Yusifov, Excelsior Hotel Baku’s general manager Natalia Solovieva, AtaHolding Public Relations Department’s head Dilara Zamanova, Azerbaijan Writers Union’s member and poet Adalat Askeroglu, and forum Umud.az’s head Irina Eyyubova.

Addressing to the meeting Mais Yusifov told the children about the importance of one of the priority areas - information technologies and e-government project being implemented in the country.  AtaTechnology’s director said on the occasion of the event: "In today’s world, technology and electronic communications have become an integral part of our lives. At present we observe widespread use of information communication technology in kindergartens, schools and public transport. From now on, a skill to use computers and the Internet since childhood is a necessity. With this in mind, we decided to tell children about the benefits of computers, how technologies help people and ease their work. Besides, our goal was to explain children in accessible language that in the future with increasing use of information technology and realization of e-government project, a need in personnel who have mastered the use of information technology is going to increase.”

Solovieva said that Excelsior Hotel Baku plans to arrange during the year several events in the area of corporate social responsibility (CSR) for children who need special attention and care: "During the year Excelsior Hotel Baku will provide material and moral support to children deprived of parental care. Our CSR projects serve to increase the level of education and personal development of children.

Zamanova stressed that the holding performs various actions in the field of CSR, including pays attention to children requiring special care: "Our aim in organizing this competition was to educate children in the IT-sector and e-government project in our country, wake up their interest in this area and at the same time for poetry.”

At the competition the children read poems on the theme of homeland. The best of them were awarded with gifts and certificates from AtaTechnology.

AtaTechnology, functioning as part of AtaHolding, started its operations in May 2005 and offers business management software, collaborates with leading international companies and represents their products on the local market. Presentation of a variety of IT-solutions on the market is one of the main objectives of AtaTechnology. Company’s products are designed to speed up and ensure efficiency of business processes.