| CLICT Hosted a NATO Workshop on Cyberterrorism |
CLICT, in cooperation with the Computer Crime Research Center (Ukraine), organized a NATO Advanced Research Workshop entitled "Cyber Terrorism as a New Security Threat" in Sofia on October 27-28, 2006.
The objective of the workshop was to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners from NATO and Partner countries, particularly new (such as Bulgaria) and potential (such as Ukraine) NATO member states, to exchange and formulate new ideas in the field, as well as to establish working contacts and to explore avenues for future cooperation among the region’s leading experts on terrorism and cyber crime. The resulting publication will serve as a medium for disseminating the latest scholarship, ideas and approaches in the area.
Specific topics explored include the interaction between cyber terrorism and organized crime, types of cyber terrorism attacks and risks associated therewith, governments’ cooperation on cyber terrorism combating and prevention, security measures such as authentication and authorization, intrusion detection and integrity verification, data and system protection, risk analysis, cryptography, secure e-commerce protocols, wireless networks security, and computer forensics.
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27.09.2006
Second E-Government Workshop under the Bringing the e-Government Services Closer to the Citizens Project
On September 28, 2006, in the Serdika Hall of the Grand Hotel Sofia, the second E-Government Workshop under the Project “Bringing the e-Government Services Closer to the Citizens” will be held. At that meeting, the Final Report elaborated by an independent expert group at the Center for the Law of Information and Communication Technologies at the Law and Internet Foundation and entitled “Analysis of the Status of the Bulgarian Electronic Government. Main Problems and Barriers to its Dynamic Development” will be presented. The Report was prepared with financial support from the Balkan Trust for Democracy, a project of the German Marshall Fund. During the abovementioned event, possibilities for bringing e-Government services closer to the needs of citizens and ways of increasing trust of the citizen in the state administration in the e-Government context will be discussed.
21.09.2006
CLICT Experts Took Part in the Third Round Table on ICT
On September 21, 2006, the Third Round Table on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) organized by the Bulgarian ICT Cluster and the Conference of Employers and Industrialists in Bulgaria with support from the Volunteers for Economic Growth Alliance’s Business Trade Development consortium (VEGA–BTD) took place the at the Sheraton Hotel. The event gathered over 100 representatives of Bulgarian ICT industry, state administration and various non-governmental organizations, among which were delegates of the Center for the Law of ICT (CLICT). Within the Round Table’s agenda, the Bringing the E-government services closer to the citizens’ Project being carried out by CLICT was presented and recommendations resulting from it and aimed at the improvement in electronic administrative services were discussed.
07.06.2006
CLICT Experts Took an Active Part in the Second International Workshop on Intellectual Property Rights and the Information Society
CLICT experts took an active part in the Workshop on Intellectual Property Rights and the Information Society that took place in Sofia on March 10-11. The workshop became second in the series of workshops on the same broad topic organized under the PropEur (Property Regulation in European Science, Ethics and Law) Project. Mr. Miroslav Ognyanov, Esq., Chairman of the CLICT’s Expert Group on Intellectual Property, delivered an update on the progress Bulgaria had made in 2005 in the area of IPR protection, whereas Dr. Monika Kopcheva, Chairperson of the Expert Group on Cybercrime at CLICT, spoke on the legal framework for Digital Rights Management (DRM) currently existing in Bulgaria. The PropEur Project is being run by the University of Birmingham and funded by the European Commission under the 6th Framework Programme.
29.03.2006
CLICT Completes a Report on the Re-Use of PSI
The Report on the implementation of the European requirements for the re-use of public sector information (PSI) has been prepared by a specially designated expert group at CLICT. The assignment was received from the State Agency for Information Technologies and Communications. The project's expected follow-up is drafting a special law on the subject by CLICT's experts.
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