Internet Society Bulgaria
Web page: www.isoc.bg
Contact points: Julia Velkova, Veni Markovski
Internet Society Bulgaria is an independent, not-for-profit organization incorporated in Bulgaria in 1995. The Internet Society of Bulgaria is a recognized chapter of the Internet Society, headquartered in Reston, Virginia, USA and Geneva, Switzerland. It has been active in promoting the dissemination and use of the Internet and Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in all aspects of civil society in Bulgaria. Internet Society Bulgaria is a primary source of reliable information on the development of the information technologies in Bulgaria. Experts from Internet Society actively participate in the work of different administrations and organizations, including the National Assembly,
Ministries and agencies within the Bulgarian Council of Ministers.
Internet Society Bulgaria has strong partnerships established with the leading Bulgarian organisations, involved in open source, such as, the Free Software Association, Linux Business Solutions and others, as well as with the linux community. Among the FOSS related activities of Internet Society Bulgaria is a project that aims to provide support to the e-government initiatives based on Free/Open Source Software at
municipal level in South-eastern Europe. According to this project, a number of municipalities in the SEE region are expected to implement FOSS based solutions, as well as, e-government and e-municipality ones, developed using FOSS.
tOSSad is an EU project funded under FP6 IST program - Contract No. 015981 signed 22/03 - 2005