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 co-founded the second in history Internet Service Provider
in Bulgaria - BOL.BG. In 2008 the company was sold to international
investors.
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)
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.
He is also the ICANN liaison to Russia, CIS, and Eastern Europe.
His personal blog is at blog.veni.com.
More information about Veni is to be found at the Current work section of veni.com.
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