{"id":25,"date":"2006-01-09T13:16:52","date_gmt":"2006-01-09T11:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.foss.bg\/blog\/?p=25"},"modified":"2006-01-09T13:16:52","modified_gmt":"2006-01-09T11:16:52","slug":"10-years-internet-society-in-bulgaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"10 years Internet Society in Bulgaria"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last weekend we celebrated 10 years since the foundation of the Internet Society of Bulgaria<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Official<\/a>
\n   On the picture: A Moment From the Cocktail Party (click to enlarge<\/a>).
\n   Members of ISOC (left to right):
\n   Veni Markovski<\/a> – ISOC-Bulgaria President and Chairman of the Board;
\n   Plamen Vatchkov<\/a> – chairman of the State Agency for ITC;
\n   Sergei Stanishev<\/a> – Prime Minister of the Republic of Bulgaria;
\n   Dimitar Ganchev<\/a> – member of ISOC.bg Board and BOL.BG<\/a> CEO;
\n   Anelia Delcheva, ISOC member.<\/p>\n

   Here’s the official press-release of the event:<\/p>\n

ISOC Bulgaria<\/b> celebrated its 10th year anniversary at the Matti Hall of the National Palace of Culture<\/a>.<\/p>\n

More than 250 guests, among them many members of ISOC attended the cocktail party. Among them were the Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev<\/a> (member of ISOC since 2001), the chairman of the
\ngovernmental ITC agency Plamen Vatchkov<\/a> (member since 1999), M.D. Emil Raynov<\/a> – deputy-minister of health, members of Parliament Ivan Ivanov<\/a> and Luben Dilov Jr.<\/a>, heads of other governmental agencies, as well as chief of cabinets of different ministers.<\/p>\n

Office of the President was represented by chief of staff Krasimir Stoyanov, and also chief of legal council Boris Velchev, secretary for non-governmental organizations Andrey Bundjulov<\/a>, Emil Iliev, and others.<\/p>\n

The United Nations were represented by Mr. Neil Buhne<\/a> – head of the UNDP office in Sofia.
\nAmong the guests were also the CEOs of the leading Internet companies – like Nikolai Gorchilov, Nikolai Badinski, Theodore Zahov<\/a>, and others.<\/p>\n

The Bulgarian music industry leaders were headed by Ms. Stanislava Armutlieva<\/a>, CEO of Virginia Records.
\nMs. Nina Selvelieva, Pepa Vitanova, Velislava Dareva, Kalin Manolov, Vassil Chobanov were among many journalists to come to greet the hosts.<\/p>\n

IT business was also present with George Sharkov – head of the Basscom – Bulgarian software association; Tihomir Tsolov of Sunny Commputers, Konstantin Stoilov of Hewlett-Packard Bulgaria, Dragomir Tsankov of Comtel, Vladislav Hristozov and Vassil Hristovich<\/a> of Apis, Simeon Angelov<\/a> of Omnitel, and many others.<\/p>\n

Free and Open Source Software movement and business gurus were also there, among them Yovko Lambrev<\/a> of IBM, Stoyan Mishinev of OpenIntegra, and others.<\/p>\n

The Balkan Acceession Fund C.V. was represented by Thomas M. Higins – managing partner. The Academy of Science was there through Dr. Velizar Shalamanov – one of the top cybersecurity experts in Bulgaria, former deputy-defence minister.<\/p>\n

Also present were the people involved in the development of the IT strategy of Bulgaria – Nikolai Gerassimov and Roumen Trifonov of the Coordination Center for ITC to the Council of Ministers, Krassimir Benevski of the UNDP<\/a>, who were in the company of ISOC-Bulgaria coordinators Ms. Dessi Pefeva and Ms. Julia Velkova.<\/p>\n

Supreme Court Judges, prosecutors, investigators and law enforcement officers were all over the place, communicating with other members of ISOC. The first Bulgarian e-notary George Dimitrov was spoted exchanging arguments with Ilia Bojinov.<\/p>\n

Many other guests and members of ISOC enjoyed the great catering of Mati and the wines from
\nISOC-Bulgaria’s favourite cellars.<\/p>\n

For more pictures, visit this web page<\/a> (in Bulgarian)<\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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