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In the town of Sirmione (Italian Republic) was held The International disciplic Olympiad in Informatics. Of 324 participants from 81 countries have adequately presented Ukraine pupils and students having received prize places and won four medals.
Gold medal won  Sergei Nagin, student of the faculty of cybernetics of Kiev National University named after  Shevchenko. Silver medal got Vitaly Gerasimov, a student of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science of Lviv National University named after  Franco. the bronze medals  went to Roman Furko and Roman Rubanenko, pupils in grade 11 of Poltava Regional lyceum at Kremenchug Teachers College named after  Makarenko.
In the overall ranking Ukraine won 10th honorable place among the 86 participating countries.
All participants of the International Olympiad in Informatics got vivid impressions of staying in Italy, they are actively communicated with each other, and also visited some interesting excursions.
According to the materials: mon.gov.ua.

The biggest IT conference in Eastern Europe – iForum

This year iForum attended by more than 7,000 participants. The conference placed their stands more than 50 major Ukrainian and international Internet companies, and was represented by a large number of local start-ups.
iForum brought together top officials IT, including such figures as Anton Nosik (SUP), Igor Ashmanov (AIP), Dmitry Sholomko(Google-Ukraine), Katerina Kostereva (Terrasoft). And also – creators such as Nikita Seltzer (Caramba TV) and Alexei Ametov (Look At Me).
iForum 2013 Ukraine Kiev

Forum traditionally reflects trends of the Network over the past year and sets the vectors of development for the future. iForum 2013 was no exception.
E-commerce, mobile applications and media market were the main trends of iForum 2013. Trending topics were also about freedom and restrictions on the Internet.
As always, 100% was filled stream of online advertising. Lead of stream Evgeny Shevchenko noted participants’ interest in the stability and increase the number of listeners.
On the technological stream rose topic of cloud computing, high-loaded systems and “mobile” development – outlined the future development trends Sergei Korzh, presenter of stream.
The head of the organizing committee Ol’shanskii said that changing the format of iForum was good for the conference, and the following year the organizing committee will move in the same direction.

Ukraine leads in Internet access

Internet access in Ukraine
“Ukraine – one of the most prosperous countries in the world for Internet access,” said Alexander Olshansky in the business breakfast CEO Club Ukraine January 24, 2013 in the President Hotel.
Referring to the statistics, the speaker noted that the 12 million Ukrainian Internet users spread across the territory of Ukraine is fairly evenly: “Today, the normal access to the Internet is in many villages. We have the infrastructure in this area is better than in Germany, and England. “Olshansky suggests that by 2014, 70% of the population will have access to the Internet. A quick burst will be associated with the emergence of all kinds of mobile devices, providing access to the Internet as an alternative to expensive PC.

The invention of the Ukrainian students one of the best, «TIME» version

gloves for enable to talk from Ukrainian students

Students Computer Academy “SHAG” won the Imagine Cup 2012 in Sydney on July 10 held a truly epochal event for the computer industry in Ukraine – the first time in the history of the Ukrainians won one of the most prestigious competitions of IT-technology areas – Microsoft Imagine Cup. Team quadSquad, composed of students of Donetsk Computer Academy “SHAG”, won the most difficult category – software development (Software Design), which has struggled for more than 70 teams.
They presented the world his socially oriented project called Enable Talk.
Enable Talk according to the magazine «TIME» included in the list “Best Inventions of the Year 2012” along with The Curiosity Rover, Google Glass, self-inflating tires and many others.
It aims at improving the communication of people with limited hearing and presents by glove equipped with a large number of sensors, such as sensors bend the fingers, a pair of accelerometers, gyroscope and compass, which allows you to gather information on the situation in the hands of the space in the future to transform a gesture to speech.
The software part of the development (based on Windows Phone 7 / Windows 8) can receive information from sensors gloves and continuous transformation in the audio signal. The information received through Bluetooth is transmitted to the smartphone and after fast processing gestures sounded voice. This invention will help deaf and dumb people to communicate more easily and conveniently. Also glove equipped with solar panels that optimizes its use.
enable to talk Ukrainian development

During the presentation, the team demonstrated the possibility of gloves, talking to the audience in sign language that is instantly translated into voice. All those present, including the members of the jury, said that they have not seen anything like this before and were also highly appreciated the ability Ukrainians not only to program, but also to solder chips with their own hands.

To develop their project folks spent more than six months, it is expected that such a glove would be worth only $ 200.
Materials taken from the site: «EnableTalk»

Ukraine has introduced tax exemptions for the IT business, which will provide a quick upturn in the industry

Ukrainian IT industry

 Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) adopted a law granting significant tax benefits for the IT-sector in Ukraine, the effect of which will provide a breakthrough in the development of high technology.

“Today, Ukraine is ranked 5th in the world of exporting of software. The adopted law will provide an opportunity in the coming years, double the volume of Ukrainian exports of IT-services. The positive impact will feel the entire economy, “- said Vice Prime Minister Sergey Tigipko.
·                Corporate income tax will be reduced from 21% to 5% from the beginning of 2013
·                Personal income tax – from 15% to 5%
·                Value added tax – repealed (but only on the software, which will be developed by Ukrainians)
·                The period of exemptions is 10 years, only long term preferences can give the desired effect.
The initiators of the law have estimated that its enactment will increase the number of jobs (a third part of a year) and increase the competitiveness of Ukrainian IT-companies. After all, today in many countries, payroll taxes are much lower than in Ukraine (in India – 6%, in Brazil – 10%, Russia – 14%), which did not allow employers to pay to Ukrainians the same high wages.  And this led to an outflow of Ukrainian professionals abroad. Now the situation has changed dramatically, and Ukraine has all chances to strengthen its position in the global IT-industry.
The government is also preparing measures to promote the development of IT-sector in Ukraine. Thus, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine is ready to increase the government procurement for learning in higher educational establishments.