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Veni Markovski has graduated law, but before that in 1990 he started his work on the Internet, as a system operator of the first Sofia-based
bulletin-board system, part of FidoNet.
In 1993 Mr. Markovski formed with another of the Bulgarian Internet
pioneers, Mr. Dimitar
(Mitko)
Ganchev, their company - bol.bg,
which is also the second in history of Bulgaria Internet
Service Provider.
Veni Markovski was President and CEO of BOL.BG for nine
years. The two owners sold the company in 2008 to international investment
company
In 1995 he co-founded the Bulgarian Internet
Society, of which he serves
still as President and chairman of the Board. In 1999 ISOC-Bulgaria sued the
government over the imposed licenses for the Internet service providers, and
later through his active work, Bulgaria accepted the most liberal
Internet-related laws.
In 2002 Mr. Markovski was appointed as the Chairman of the Bulgarian President's
IT Advisory Council.
In 2005 he was invited to be the senior international projects adviser to
the chairman of the governmental Agency for Information Technologies and
communications, a position that he held until 2009.
Mr. Markovski is currently representing ICANN in Russia, CIS and Eastern
Europe, and still continues to help the Bulgarian government in the ITC
field.
He's also adviser to the Bulgarian National Cybersecurity chief.
Since the beginning of his carrer, Veni has been involved in different international
organizations and programs on different
levels - as adviser, senior adviser, advocate for policy changes, mediator, board member, etc.
He has served on the Boards of CPSR,
ISOC,
ICANN, among others.
Widely recognized as an outstanding IT-expert and visionary, Mr. Markovski is a frequent speaker at
international conferences, and is often being approached for advises by foreign and Bulgarian
companies, organizations, and governments.
Veni Markovski has also been involved in many other projects, among them:
FOSS.bg - the UNDP Free and Open Source Software Project for SEEurope
tOSSad - towards Open Source Software adoption and dissemination
FLOSS world - Free/Libre/Open Source Software: Worldwide impact study
Read more about what he does at the current work page.
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