The objectives of the forum were officially announced as "to discuss and
approve a strategy of formation of Siberian Center of National IT-industry
and prospects for its extension up to the Euro-Asian IT-Center". Actually,
it is about short-term plans to build a high-class IT business center to
give offices for a lot of IT-companies, a number of University buildings to
enable serious extension of capabilities for educating IT-specialists,
apartment houses for young specialists, up-to-date hotel, and some other.
Note that not only Russian government and regional administration are going
to invest into the project but also some big companies, including Intel and
Hewlett-Packard, that have strong strategic interest for working in
Akademgorodok.
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