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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 FidoNet Bulletin Board System
in Sofia, Bulgaria. By 1993 he co-founded the second in history Internet Service Provider
in Bulgaria - BOL.BG. In 2008 the company was sold to an international
investment fund.
In 1995 he co-founded the Bulgarian Internet Society.
He is chairing the Bulgarian President's IT Advisory Committee since 2002, and
advised on International Projects the Chairman of the State Agency for IT and
Communications to the Council of Ministers or Republic of Bulgaria
(2005-2009). He is still supporting the work of the Bulgarian government in
the ITC field.
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)
In his various positions, Veni Markovski has:
Helped launch the Bulgarian
version of the Creative Commons licenses (2006).
Served as the legal expert to the Bulgarian Parliamentary Committee on
Transport and Telecommunications (2001-2005).
Participated in drafting and passage of two Telecommunications Acts (2001,
2003).
Participated in drafting and passage of the E-Document and E-Signature Act
(2000).
Participated in drafting and passage of the Computer Crimes chapter in the
Penal Code (2002).
Participated in drafting the Free and Open Source Software Usage in the
State Administration Act.
Successfully sued the Bulgarian government at the Supreme Court to stop the
licensing of Internet Service Providers because it would lead to censorship
(1999).
Coordinated with the Bulgarian and other E.U. governments to define
positions on the WSIS and other Internet-related policies.
Coordinated with the Bulgarian government to define better policies for
using Free and Open Source Software in e-government.
Advised the American Bar Association and the Department of Justice in their
Central and East European Law Initiative.
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 a frequent presenter at different IT-related conferences, among
them CFP (San Francisco, CA, USA), MMAWG (Washington, DC, USA), WSIS (Geneva, Switzerland and
Tunis, Tunisia), Wizards of OS (Berlin, Germany), iWeek (Joburg, South Africa), FBI/Fordham (New York),
RANS (Moscow, Russia), Nato Forum on Security (Istanbul, Turkey),
Cybersecurity forums (Sofia, Bulgaria; Belgrade, Serbia), and many others.
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.
He is currently the ICANN representative to Russia, CIS, and Eastern Europe.
Mr. Markovski lives in Washington, DC, USA.
His personal blog is at blog.veni.com.
More information about Veni is to be found online at this site, at Wikipedia or just
online at LinkedIn, flickr, twitter, or Facebook.
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