Veni Markovski
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September 25, 2015, Sofia, Bulgaria
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| Born | 3 April 1968 Skopje, SFRY, now Republic of Macedonia |
| Occupation | Internet, President of ISOC-Bulgaria |
Veni Markovski is a Bulgarian Internet pioneer,[1] co-founder and CEO (until 2002) of bol.bg, one of the leading ISPs in Bulgaria, which was sold entirely in 2008 to a foreign investor.
Biography
Veni Markovski is a graduate of the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” with Masters of Science degree in Law (1997).
Veni Markovski first came into contact with the Internet in September 1990, by becoming one of the first system operators of a Bulletin Board System, part of FidoNet in Sofia, Bulgaria.[2]
In 1993 he co-founded and was CEO until 2002 of bol.bg, the second in the Internet history of Bulgaria Internet Service Provider, which was using in the beginning the Russian private network GlasNet[3] to connect to the Internet. In 1995 Markovski co-founded the Internet Society of Bulgaria - a non-profit think tank, promoting Internet usage and digital rights in Bulgaria.
Veni Markovski was project managing a number of Free/Open Source Software projects, funded by the UNDP and the European Union.
From 2006 until 2009, Markovski was Senior Adviser on international projects to the Chairman of Bulgarian State Agency for IT and Communications to the Council of Ministers. From December 2012 he was ICANN's Vice-President,[4] responsible for Russia, Eastern Europe, and the CIS (He was the ICANN's regional manager for the same region since 2007.[5]). Starting March 20, 2014 he's with the same title, but now responsible for relations with the UN, UN agencies, and cybersecurity cooperation.[6] He is the CEO of a privately held consulting company, and participates regularly in events, related to Internet public policy and cybersecurity.
Markovski has been member of the Bulgarian delegation to the U.N. World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) in 2003 and 2005, and is regularly participating in ITU-related events since 2002.
He was the Chairman of the IT Advisory Committee to the Bulgarian President (March 2002 - January 2012).[7] Markovski has been a Member of the ICANN Board (June 2003 - December 2006), he also served as a Member of the Board of Trustees of the international Internet Society from 2002 to 2007,[8] and was on the Board of Directors of the CPSR (2003–2005).[9]
Markovski is a passionate blogger and contributor with articles, stories and interviews at different media, including newspapers,[10][11][12][13][14] journals,[15] online magazines,[16] for radio[17] and TV stations,[18] etc.
References
- ↑ ICANN: Biographical Data on Veni Markovski
- ↑ Първите в Интернет{bg} The First on the Internet, a book in Bulgarian
- ↑ Glasnet The X.25 uucp connection was going through there.
- ↑ ICANN web site Veni Markovski | VP, Stakeholder Engagement - Russia/CIS/Eastern Europe
- ↑ ICANN Blog » Blog Archive ICANN in Russia, April 2007
- ↑ ICANN web site Veni Markovski | VP – Global Stakeholder Engagement
- ↑ PITAC The Archive of the official site of the President Of The Republic Of Bulgaria
- ↑ Internet Society Bio data on Veni Markovski as an ISOC Trustee
- ↑ Past Boards of Directors CPSR site
- ↑ Novinar daily Hacking should be penalized, Interview from 2001
- ↑ New York Times Open-source software gets boost at UN, 2003
- ↑ Nova Macedonia: The Macedonians are not Bulgarians by birth, 2009]
- ↑ Sega daily: Why We Don't Smile, 2011
- ↑ 24 hours daily: ACTA is a product of the analog generation, 2012
- ↑ Military Journal: Information Warfare and International Law, 1998
- ↑ CircleID Veni Markovski's publications
- ↑ NPR U.N. Control of the Internet and Open Information, 2005
- ↑ bTV interview: Media in Bulgaria reflects not what happened, but what might happen
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