Veni Markovski was born 1968 in Skopie, Macedonia. He started working on the Internet in September 1990, by becoming one of the first system operators of a Bulletin Board System in Sofia, Bulgaria. By 1993 he has founded the second in history Internet Service Provider in Bulgaria - BOL.BG. In 1995 he founded the Bulgarian Internet Society.
He is chairing the Bulgarian President's IT Advisory Committee since 2002, and advises on International Projects the Chairman of the State Agency for IT and Communications to the Council of Ministers or Republic of Bulgaria. Mr. Markovski has been member of the Bulgarian delegation to the U.N. World Summit on Information Society, and a member of the Advisory Group to the Internet Governance Forum. He was a member of the ICANN Board (2003-2006). He served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society (2002-2007), and on the Board of Directors of the Computers Professionals for Social Responsibility (2003-2005).
Veni Markovski was Project Manager of UNDP projects for support of e-government initiatives in South-eastern Europe. His efforts have been positively reviewed at The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, heise.de and others. Veni Markovski has also served as project contact point for the Bulgarian ENUM trial (launched on April 13, 2006)
As a President and Chair of the Board of the Internet Society of Bulgaria and in his capacity of country coordinator of the Global Internet Policy Initiative (GIPI), Veni Markovski has:
Been a legal expert to the Parliamentary Committee on Transport and Telecommunications
Helped to draft and pass three Telecommunications and Electronic Communications Acts (2001, 2003, 2007)
Helped to draft and pass The E-Document and E-Signature Act (2000)
Helped to draft and pass the Computer Crimes chapter in the Penal Code (2002)
Helped to draft the Free and Open Source Software Usage in the State Administration Act
Implemented first ever legal strategy to successfully eliminate legal barriers to free Internet access (1999 )
been helping the Bulgarian government to define positions on the WSIS and other Internet-related policies
Mr. Markovski is a graduate of the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ochridski” with Masters of Science degree in Law (1993), he has also passed training by the International Law Development Institute in Rome, the US Agency for International Development, and others.
He has also hundreds of publications in Bulgarian and foreign newspapers and magazines since 1984. He is also frequent presenter at different IT-related conferences.
Mr. Markovski is currently serving as Chair of the Board and President of the Internet Society of Bulgaria, and is a member of the Board of the Internet Society of New York.
His personal web site is at veni.com.
More information about Veni is to be found at the Current work section of veni.com.
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