On March 5, 2004, Mr. Glenn McKnight, the Director for development of programs within the Linux Professional Institute, LPI, responsible for the local partners around the world and the international funding, announced the start of the process for educating and certifying Linux experts in Bulgaria. The launch of the certification program was announced at a round table in Sofia co-organized by the Free Software Association – Bulgaria, FSA-BG, Bulgaria Development Gateway and ARC Fund. According to the recently signed cooperation agreeement between FSA-BG and LPI, the Association has become an...

Towards the Athens Olympics Until the start of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games in August 2004, the Athens Business Club 2004 will have its home on www.athensbusinessclub.gr. Online members will have access to reliable and timely information on international activities of Greek companies, profiles of innovative businesses, personalized assistance to club members wishing to network with other members, as well as information on scheduled business events during the Games period. During the 2004 Olympic Games During the Olympic Games, the Club moves from online to onsite in Athens, at the Saroglion...

Technology Foresight is considered to be of value not only for the leading economies, but also for economies like Bulgaria and Romania. The processes of globalisation put stronger pressure on transition countries to specialise and develop adjustment policies. The foresight initiative in Bulgaria is aimed at adaptation of the foresight toolbox, elaboration of methodological frameworks and recommendations by implementing two foresight pilots in the field of e-Government and Agriculture (plant and animal biotechnology) and beverage and food industry. E-government domain has been identified as...

The Development Gateway portal published on its e-Government Topic Page a special feature and case study about ARC Fund’s project on “Transparency and Accountability in Local Government: Management Information System for the Municipality of Sofia”. This project was implemented in partnership with the City of Sofia and with financial support from the World Bank’s infoDev Program. The project was successfully completed in June 2001. The aim of the project was to increase transparency and accountability via the implementation of a new management information system. It was expected that the...

ARC Fund has launched a portal site for civil society in the Balkan region called Southeast Europe Online in the framework of a project, supported by USAID. This is the first attempt at creating an electronic community of NGOs, international donors, and other key players in the region’s reconstruction and development programs. The portal site is conceived as a platform for partnership-building among civil society organizations in Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, FR Yugoslavia, FYR Macedonia and Romania, as well as a focal point for social, political...