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  • Bulgaria meets BBLF on e-Government

    The fast and successful introduction of electronic government (e-government) is an important step in fighting corruption in state administration.

    Such was announced by State Administration Minister Nikolai Vassilev at an April 26 meeting with the Bulgarian Business Leaders Forum (BBLF) held in Sofia.

  • Bulgaria Moves toward E-Govt with Paper-Free Foreign Min

    Bulgaria's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has become the country's first paper-free ministry by discarding all paper document flow, it announced Tuesday.

    "The move to e-administration in the future is inexorable and there is no point in resisting this," Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov

    Tuesday Mladenov presented the new electronic documentation system of the Foreign Affairs Ministry, which at the beginning of 2012 became the first fully paperless institution in Bulgaria.

  • Bulgaria passes law requiring government software to be open source: “The change hopefully means better software”

    Bulgaria now requires all software written for the government to be open source. We asked Bozhidar Bozhanov, adviser to the Deputy Prime Minister at Council of Ministers of the Republic of Bulgaria, to comment on this new law and its benefits.

    According to Article 58 of the Bulgarian Electronic Governance Act, administrative authorities will have to include the following requirements: “When the subject of the contract includes the development of computer programs: a) computer programs must meet the criteria for open source software; b) all copyright and related rights on the relevant computer programs, their source code, the design of interfaces and databases which are subject to the order should arise for the principal in full, without limitations in the use, modification and distribution; c) development should be done in the repository maintained by the Agency in accordance with Art. 7c pt. 18;”

  • Bulgaria Sees E-Government Advantages

    The major advantages of e-government were presented at a special seminar organized within the BAIT Expo.

    The future projects concerning the e-government and different information and administrative services were presented at a round table focused on e-government and the opportunities for Bulgarian companies to participate in it.

  • Bulgaria Set to Wrap Up Crucial E-Govt Project in 2013

    Bulgaria plans to fully implement next year the much needed and long-delayed e-government project.

    "The project will enable electronic data exchange between over 30 public registers," Deputy Transport Minister Valeri Borisov announced at the eighth forum on innovations and competitiveness, which took place on Tuesday in Sofia.

    E-government services are expected to help reduce costs by BGN 80 M per year and increase efficiencies for government agencies and citizens.

  • Bulgaria targets e-government roll-out for July 2013

    Electronic government, an area that Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov earlier declared as a priority for his Cabinet this year, will begin rolling out in spring next year, Transport and Information Technologies Minister Ivailo Moskovski said on August 29 at the signing ceremony of several e-gov contracts.

    Moskovski signed contracts worth 12 million leva with seven companies. The project will be financed using funds from the European Union’s operational programme for administrative capacity. All contracts have to be completed by July 2013, but some have delivery dates as early as March next year.

  • Bulgaria tests e-health card

    Taking its cue from a German pilot project, the Bulgarian National Health Insurance Fund is kicking off a 1,000-patient trial that could lead to a national electronic health card, a report in Healthcare IT News has said.

    The Bulgarian pilot project will include one municipality, three GPs and five pharmacies. During this phase, the main objectives will be to establish insurance status, and issue electronic prescriptions.

  • Bulgaria to collaborate with South Korea and Portugal in e-government project

    Bulgaria will share best practices with South Korea and Portugal to develop the country's electronic government (e-government) project, Finance Minister Simeon Dyankov and Deputy Transport and Communications Minister Purvan Roussinov said.

    In 2011, Bulgaria will allocate about 35 million leva under the EU's administrative capacity operational programme for the project, Deputy Finance Minister Boryana Pencheva said.

  • Bulgaria to Fight Corruption with E-Government

    In order to tackle corruption in the Bulgarian state administration an e-government should be introduced quickly and successfully, State Administration and Administrative Reform Minister Nikolay Vassilev said.

    During the annual board meeting of the Bulgarian Business Leaders Forum (BBLF), Vassilev outlined three key steps that have to be undertaken for the e-government to launch in the country. First of all there should be enough computers, especially for smaller municipalities away from the capital, he said. Step two would be to gather enough people in the administration and business who use electronic signatures. Then all that was left was the creation of software solutions for the e-government.

  • Bulgaria to Finalize Large-Scale E-Govt Project in 2013

    The implementation of the largest e-government project in Bulgaria will enable electronic data exchange between over 30 public registers, according to Transport Minister Ivaylo Moskovski.

    Bulgaria's Minister of Transport, Information Technology and Communications signed Wednesday contracts with three contractors on the e-government project.

    Moskovski vowed that work on the project would start on Thursday.

  • Bulgaria to Host Debate on EU’s Digital Single Market Plan Next Week

    An event focused on promoting the European Commission’s plans to create a digital single market of the EU, will take place in Bulgaria next week.

    “The first building blocks of the EU’s Digital Single Market Strategy could be laid in Bulgaria,” the European Commission said in a press release on 17 April.

    The European Commission will present its Digital Single Market Strategy on 6 May.On 25 March, the European Commission agreed on the main areas on which it will focus its work to trigger real changes for consumers and businesses.

  • Bulgaria to speed up e-govt: PM

    We will speed up the establishment of an electronic government,” Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov said speaking at a round-table discussion themed “Single Digital Market through E-government and Digital Entrepreneurship” held in the Bulgarian capital city Sofia, which is also attended by European Commission Vice President and European Commissioner for Digital Single Market Andrus Ansip, FOCUS News Agency reporter said.

    “All police officers have the same “armaments” as in Estonia. We are doing this in the customs, too, but quietly without too much noise.

  • Bulgaria Unveils E-Govt's Control Centre

    Bulgaria's State Administration Minister Nikolay Vassilev officially opened the technical control centre of the country's future e-government.

    Vassilev told the state radio that the mainframe and the servers have huge capacity when both their speed and their memory is concerned. They will be able to provide services to people from the whole country, he added.

  • Bulgaria Will Postpone the Introduction of Electronic Documents

    The state is preparing to postpone the introduction of electronic documents. Before the e-government forum, Deputy Prime Minister Tomislav Donchev said that the state will keep the existing electronic identification systems, Econ.bg writes.

    The introduction of electronic documents has been postponed once again with amendments to the law last year, and now the deadline is January 1, 2020.

  • Bulgaria, Austria Ink e-Govt Cooperation Agreement

    A bilateral agreement on the cooperation in the fields of IT and the electronic government was signed Monday between Bulgaria and Austria.

    The document was inked by Bulgaria's Deputy Transport and IT Minister Parvan Rusinov and Head of the Presidial Section at the Austrian Federal Chancellery, Manfred Matzka. Austria's experience in absorbing EU funds provided for the development of an e-government will be very helpful will be very useful for Bulgaria, the two officials stated.

  • Bulgaria: Digitalisation priority

    Government to invest BGN 40m in boosting internet access

    The digitalisation of state government and providing internet access to all citizens are among the key priorities of the government, deputy minister of transport and ICT Parvan Rusinov tells the Pari daily. These goals are interconnected and will help the development of the IT business in Bulgaria. E-government will encourage the use of internet, which in turn will boost demand for IT products, he adds.

  • Bulgaria: E-government dream

    A Government decision on October 28 revived the importance of providing e-government services into Bulgaria’s business. This was accompanied by a response from one branch association demanding urgent action.

    The new Government long ago described itself as business-savvy. On October 28 it set out to prove its credentials by aiming to expedite work on introducing e-government services.

  • Bulgaria: E-government sets out from Varna, Sofia and Sliven

    The e-government project will set out from Varna, Sofia and Sliven. The three centres will create a single portal for access to electronic administrative services, officials from the State Administration and Administrative Reform Ministry were quoted by local media as saying on October 25.

    The e-government project carries a 21 million leva tag, says the site of the Public Procurement Agency. Among candidates to build the e-government system are Siemens IT Solutions & Services, E-Government Centre consortium, a tie-up led by Storma, Hewlett-Packard Bulgaria and a consortim led by InfoProgress.

  • Bulgaria: E-signatures tune up

    Bulgarian-language media widely reported the "original" way that Finance Minister Milen Velchev chose to submit the draft budget 2004 to Parliament for discussion. He did this via the internet, using an electronic signature.

    E-signature, it seems, is still seen as state of the art futurism in Bulgaria, despite the fact that from a legal point of view, issues related to e-signature have been regulated in the law on electronic document and electronic signature, effective as of October 2001.

  • Bulgaria: Electronic data exchange will not reduce state administration: Director

    Introduction of electronic data exchange will not reduce the number of employees in the state administration but will assist their qualification and training, the Director of Directorate “E-government” at Bulgarian Ministry of Administration and Administrative Reform Yuriy Alkalay told Focus Agency.

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