[Sofia, 18.1.] 1st BBA Bulgaria - Jury und Nominierungen

[Peter Kuhm <peter.kuhm@plus.at>]

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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 06:31:52 +0100
From: veni markovski <[..]>
Subject: BBA Awards 2002 Bulgaria


Dear all,
BBA Bulgaria awards are to take place on January 18th, 6 p.m. at the Matti 
hall of the National Palace of Culture, downtown Sofia. We expect national 
media coverage for the approx. 1-hour show. If you think we need to edit 
somewhat the description, let me know.

The nominations are as follows:

Person:
Minister of interior Mr. Georgi Petkanov, for the scandals with wiretaping 
some of his colleagues, the ex-President, members of the opposition 
parties, and normal citizens.
Director of the press-center of the government Ms. Tsvetelina Uzunova for 
not providing information under the Access to Public Information Law, even 
with a court decision (btw, I have just filed a case against her for that, 
last week)
Secretary-chief of the interior General Borissov for claiming on his return 
from Germany that the police "should monitor all the Internet, as many 
crimes are committed there"

Communications/Technology
Mobiltel - the GSM operator who keeps records of all SMS sent through their 
system, in case "the authorities want to find out a customer who has been 
sending uncensured, vulgar, based on personal, religious, faith or 
political ground" (that's on their web site)

Business
register.bg - the .bg country-code top level domain administrator. because 
2 men, alone and without public discussion and support have created the 
rules for .bg domain registraion and require detailed personal data from 
people willing to register a domain, which makes the process slow, 
expensive, esp. when compared to registration in .com, .net, .org, etc.
Radisson SAS hotel - for installing hidden cameras in the hotel without 
leaving a warning sign for the guests to know they have been taped.

Government
1. Interior Ministry for a number of cases, among them:
Regional Shumen office - for confiscating the computer of a 17-year old 
High School student because his Windows was not bought by authorized reseller
National Combat Unit against Organized Crime - for intruding into 26-year 
old Mr. Kolev's house. He was questioned, his computer - confiscated, and 
he - given to court, for creating a web site www.dskbank.com (under the 
name of a bulgarian bank), where he published the promise of the prime 
minister from his election campaign, that "every Bulgarian is entitled to 
receive a non-interest credit in the amount of USD 2,500".

Special award
to the prime minister Simeon Sax-Coburg-Gota for the following cases 
concerning his cabinet:
- Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications - for the proposed 
Telecommunications law, with a special chapter for police control over the 
Internet traffic in online and offline regime
- Ministry of ecology - for denial of following a court decision from 
February 2002, forcing them to give public information to a citizen
- The secret signing of the contract between the government and Microsoft 
for $ 13.6 Million for buying 30,000 copies of MS Windows and MS Office 
Professional at more than doubled price than the street one.
- The secret signing of the contract with the UK-based private company 
"Crown Agents" who are now scrutinizing the Bulgarian customs.


The jury consists of 7 people: Ms. Gergana Juleva and Mr. Kashamov from the 
Access to Information project (www.aip-bg.org), Mr. Alexander Arabadjiev, 
former judge of the Constitutional court (wrote a lot of decision on the 
freedom to access of information articles), Mr. Ivan Ivanov, speaker of the 
IT Development Association (www.arit-bg.org), Mr. Hristo Nikolov, 
journalist, www.segabg.com, Ms. Yana Ilieva, editor-in-chief www.portal.bg, 
and myself as chairman of ISOC.bg and country coordinator of the Global 
Internet Policy Initiative (www.internetpolicy.net)

Greetings,
Veni

P.S. If any of you has the music from the BBA Austria or other BB-dedicated 
songs in mp3 format, please, send them to me.

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