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  • Bulgaria: Establishment of E-government Discussed in Sofia

    An international conference in Bulgaria's capital Sofia sheds light on the country's e-government strategy. The forum "E-Local @uthorities" that takes place February 13-14 focuses on the interaction of Bulgaria's Cabinet and the local administrations as well as on the experience in the establishment of municipal informational systems.
  • Bulgaria: First biometric passport issued

    On 29 March 2010, The Bulgarian Minister for Transport, Information Technology and Communications, Aleksandar Tsvetkov and the Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, gave the green light to the release of new generation travel documents which contain biometric data.

    According to the press release of the Ministry of Transport, Information Technology and Communications, the new passports meet all international requirements.

  • Bulgaria: Ihtiman: First municipality to introduce an electronic administrative service

    In October 2010, Ihtiman, a small town in the western part of Bulgaria, became the first municipality in the country to introduce an electronic archive for fast and convenient administrative services.

    Ihtiman has implemented an electronic system which allows its residents to track the work of the local government from their homes or offices. People can check the status of documents or services they have requested, and the name of the civil servant working on their request.

    The town's civil servants report that they can already see improvements in the way they work and that the citizens' trust in administrative procedures has increased.

  • Bulgaria: IT business calls for order in public procurement tenders

    Cabinet adopts strategy for increasing internet coverage in Bulgaria

    On Wednesday, the Pari daily organised a second successive ICT business forum in Bulgaria and the council of ministers approved the national strategy for boosting internet coverage in the country.

    Broadband internet coverage of the whole country is one of this cabinet's priorities, deputy minister of transport and ITC Parvan Rusinov told the participants in the event. In the next two years pilot projects will be launched in 76 towns. The country needs unified policy, planning and partnership in fund absorption, he added.

  • Bulgaria: Log on to e-government

    STATE Administration Minister Dimiter Kalchev this week announced the launching of e-government in Bulgaria.

    The first services to be provided on the internet are changes in address registration, information on the court registration of companies in Bulgaria and on social security contributions, the government information service said.

  • Bulgaria: Nikolay Vassilev: Public determination is needed for the reforms in public administration

    Willpower and public determination are needed for addressing corruption practices and for the reform in public administration, said Minister Nikolay Vassilev at the Roundtable entitled Are Bureaucracy and Corruption Overcome in the Work of Bulgarian Administration. The forum has been organised by the Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

    Minister Vassilev pointed out that thanks to the timely interference on the part of the Ministry of Public Administration and Administrative Reform, 7 license regimes have been stopped since the beginning of the year, as well as the rise in fees, while the rates in tourism have remained 7%. For the benefit of the efficient introduction of e-services, the Ministry will impose the usage of e-signature, so that direct and particular results could be achieved, said Nikolay Vassilev.

  • Bulgaria: Over 100 public eServices to be implemented with funding from OPAC

    The Bulgarian Ministry of Transport, Information Technology and Communications (MTITC) convened on 3 November 2010 a panel with Chief Information Officers (CIOs) from the State administration to discuss the future implementation of more than 100 eServices for citizens and businesses.

    The services digitisation project is entitled 'Improving services to citizens and businesses, including through the development of eGovernment'. It will be funded by the Operational Programme 'Administrative Capacity' (OPAC), which is financed by the European Union through the European Social Fund (ESF).

  • Bulgaria: State Agency for Information Technology and Communications closed

    The Government announced on September 16 the closure of the State Agency for Information Technology and Communication (SAITC) and the simultaneous creation of a executive agency Electronic Communication Networks and Information Systems (ECNIS).

    The new agency is under the direct responsibility of the Transport, IT and Communications Ministry, a government media statement said.

  • Bulgaria: Tele-centres launched

    THE first five public tele-centres of a nation-wide network aimed at providing access to services for the widest possible range of users in small and underdeveloped communities were launched on June 14.

    The tele-centres were opened under a national project monitored by Deputy Prime Minister and Transport and Communications Minister Nikolai Vassilev and European Commissioner for Enterprise and Information Society Erkki Liikanen. UN Resident Co-ordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Bulgaria Neil Buhne was also present at the official ceremony.

  • Bulgaria: Testing integrated eGovernment services platform

    On 1 February 2010 the Bulgarian Government officially started testing an integrated web platform providing 13 municipal and central government services online. The platform was made accessible at www.portal.egov.bg (in Bulgarian only for the time being).

    In a press release of January 2010, the Ministry of Transport, Information Technology and Communications (MTITC) announced how the concept of integrated eServices would work in practice.

  • Bulgaria's Business Calls for Lobbying Law, E-Govt

    The pressing need of adopting a law on lobbying and introducing e-government were highlighted by the Bulgarian Business Leaders Forum, one of the most influential communities in the country, at a meeting with the parliamentary body on corruption combat.

    Maxim Behar, chairman of the Bulgarian Business Leaders Forum, underlined the importance of the timely introduction of online administrative services.

  • Bulgaria's e-Government to Absorb EUR 5 M

    Bulgaria's state budget for this year provides a record EUR 5 M for the e-government project, State Administration Minister Nikolay Vassilev has said Friday.

    The EU-initiated project should facilitate the work of state bodies, and ease the people and the business in their communication with the institutions through information technologies.

  • Bulgaria's e-government website online

    Bulgaria's e-government website www.egov.bg has finally been launched, ipo.bg reported.

    The launch of the e-government portal was one parameter by which progress by the state administration towards European harmonisation could be measured, Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev said at a official launch.

  • Bulgaria's Government Launches New E-Portal

    Bulgaria's government launched a new e-portal, which provides access to more than 1,300 services in various ministries, agencies and municipalities.

    The portal makes it possible for the citizens to get on-line information about hundreds of services as well as to download necessary forms.

  • Bulgaria's President Demands e-Govt Agency on His 100th Day

    Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev has demanded that a single state agency be set up in order to be in charge of the development of the long anticipated but apparently highly elusive e-government services.

    Plevneliev spoke in Sofia Monday to account for the first 100 days of his presidential term, which kicked off in January 2012.

    "Bulgaria has at least three institutions that are doing something in that respect. We need a change, and a single institution for e-government," the President believes.

  • Bulgaria’s commercial registry goes offline

    The Bulgarian Commercial Registry, which records and holds information about all of the country’s companies and non-profit legal entities, has been down since August 10. Registering a new company or updating existing information is impossible. Zornitsa Daskalova, executive director of the Registry Agency, which is responsible for managing the commercial registry’s database, resigned on August 17 after failing to get the registry up and running again.

    Before the registry was established in 2008, the registration of companies was decentralised – each of the 28 district courts registered companies operating in their jurisdiction on paper. The Properties Register, which is also under the remit of the Registry Agency, fortunately remains unaffected.

  • Bulgaria’s E-Government Minister to launch e-recycling campaign

    Bulgaria’s E-Government Minister Roman Vassilev will open an e-recycling campaign in capital city Sofia on April 27. Throughout the day, electronic waste will be accepted for recycling at Alexander Nevsky Sq.

    This is the first in what would, hopefully, become a monthly event, Vassilev said in a letter to the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) Bulgaria, published by chamber.

    “E-waste, electric and electronic devices that are no longer functional, is a relatively small part of the amount of refuse generated. It is a fact, however, that e-waste contains components that are especially noxious and toxic to the environment and human health,” he said.

  • Bulgaria’s eGovernment Council resumes activity

    Bulgaria’s government, which held its latest off-site sitting in the city of Varna on Saturday, adopted a decree for the establishment of an eGovernment Council with the Council of Ministers, the press service of the government announced.

    The eGovernment Council aims at turning into a functioning institution, which will coordinate the efforts connected with the introduction of an eGovernment in Bulgaria.

  • Bulgaria’s first electronic border control counters opened at Sofia Airport

    The first electronic border control desks in Bulgaria were opened at Sofia Airport’s Terminal 2 on August 28 2012.

    The four electronic border control counters enable scanning of biometric data in passports. They were installed using funding of 572 000 leva (about 286 000 euro) European Union funding from the “external borders” project.

    Processing through the electronic border control desks takes less than a minute. They may be used by citizens of the European Union, European Economic Area and Switzerland who hold a passport with an electronic chip and are more than 18 years old.

  • Bulgarian e-government plans are impressive – EU Commissioner

    EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn was impressed by the Administration Reforms Ministry plans for e-government and defined them as “revolutionary”, the ministry press office announced on Wednesday.
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