User:Veni Markovski

The account of this former contributor was not re-activated after the server upgrade of March 2022.

I started working on the Internet in September 1990 by becoming one of the first operators of a FidoNet Bulletin Board System in Sofia, Bulgaria. By 1993 I had founded the second Internet Service Provider in the history of Bulgaria, which later became BOL.BG. In 1995, I founded the Internet Society of Bulgaria.

I chair the Bulgarian President's IT Advisory Committee and served on the Boards of ICANN, the Internet Society, and CPSR. I support the work of the Bulgarian governmental Agency for Information Technologies and Communications by advising its chairman. I've chaired the ICANN Membership Implementation Task Force. I have also been expert to several Bulgarian Parliaments, and I am among the contributors to different laws, among them the Telecommunications Act, the Penal Code (computer crimes chapter), the Electronic Document and Digital Signature Law, the Copyright Law, and others.

I am a graduate of the Sofia University "St. Kliment Ochridski" with a master of science degree in Law (1993). I have published in dozens of Bulgarian and foreign newspapers and magazines since 1984, and I am a frequent presenter at IT-related conferences around the world.