Microsoft Bulgaria with a New General Manager
Ognyan Kiryakov Takes over Company’s Management
8 January, 2008, Sofia – Ognyan Kiryakov takes over the management of
Microsoft Bulgaria from 14 January. Since January 2006 he had been general
manager of Xerox Bulgaria. Before that he was after sales customer service
manager of Xerox Eurasia and was in charge of a market covering 21 countries
- Russia, Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Rumania, Moldova,
Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia,
Croatia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan,
and Mongolia.
„I am glad to welcome Ognyan in Microsoft’s management team,” said Vahe
Torossian, Microsoft’s Vice-president for Central and Eastern Europe.
“Ognyan has considerable management, business development, sales and marketing
experience. I believe it will contribute a lot not only to his personal
success as a manager but also to the further achievements of Microsoft
Bulgaria,” he added.
„I am pleased and honored to join the team of Microsoft, Bulgaria. No
matter how big and successful a company is and how far ahead technologies
have gone, the success of every business depends on the people. My success
will be a success of the team. I believe we will continue to develop fast
owing to the talent and enthusiasm of the professionals working in the
company. I am sure that the combination of team’s experience and knowledge
and my personal experience will help us contribute to the further positive
development not only of the IT market but also of the country as a whole.
I consider important Microsoft’s commitment towards Bulgaria to invest
not only in market and infrastructure development, but also in causes
which are beneficial for the whole society,” said Ognyan Kiryakov.
From November 2002 till May 2004 Ognyan Kiryakov was technical director
of Xerox for Southeast Europe. He has two Master – Master of Telecommunications
from the Technical University in Sofia and Master of Business Administration
from the University of National and World Economy. He started his career
in the IT branch on managerial positions in BTC. From 1994 till 2002 he
was Strategic Marketing Manager, Paging and Value Added Services Manager
and Regional Development Manager in Mobicom - the first Bulgarian mobile
operator. He has specialized in management, marketing, public relations
and finance in Bulgaria and abroad.
Ognyan Kiryakov takes over the position of managing director in Microsoft
Bulgaria from Teodor Milev who assumed in June 2007 a new position in
Microsoft’s head office for Central and Eastern Europe and is in charge
of the overall strategy and successful implementation across Central and
Eastern Europe of one of the most important training programs of Microsoft
– Partners in Knowledge.
For more information:
Natalia Dimitrova
Public Relations Manager
Microsoft Bulgaria
Phone: 02/9657 333
GSM: 0889 400 177
E-mail: nataliad@microsoft.com
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 16.11.2007
Centro di Formazione Studi
Sede di Arco Felicearia
Mr. Roumen Trifonov,
Secretary of the Coordination Council for Information Society and Communications
at the Council of Ministers
Republic of Bulgaria
Dear Mr. Trifonov,
I’m writing you as Head of Research and Development Unit of Formez -
Training and Study Centre, the Italian public institute providing support,
accompaniment, and training to public administrations. It brings together
the Public Administration Department of the Prime Minister’s Office and
representatives of local and regional administrations.
Formez conducts research, training, consulting, and technical assistance
activities throughout Italy for central, regional, and local administrations.
It responds with targeted services to needs identified by public administrations;
delivers services to the public administrations training system, and designs
and tests new services.
Our research group is currently surveying, studying, and analysing the
best practices that regard innovation processes in the public administration
in the countries of the European Union.
Following up on our monitoring efforts on the best practices in Bulgary
(see attachement), the case of “On-line Services provided by municipalities
to citizens and businesses” was chosen as a study case to be analysed
in greater detail.
We would be grateful if you could provide us with additional information
on this case, or put us in contact with the person who was responsible
for the implementation of the project.
We would particularly like to ask you for additional information on the
following issues:
1) Documentation material on the project in English and in electronic
format
2) Any existing updates on the project
Looking forward to hearing from you
Best Regards
Giuseppe Pennella
Bulgaria
On-line Services provided by municipalities to
citizens and businesses
Organization involved
Council of Ministers of the Republic of Bulgaria
Case history
The policy is closely related to EU requirements. Before this project
an e-Government pilot project was developed and introduced in the last
few years before Bulgaria became an EU member. Citizens and the businesses
can use the Bulgarian e-Government portal, to access information resources
and to apply to the National Social Security Institute, the national register
of citizens legal status and the national register of legal bodies. The
experience of the Bulgarian Government Gateway and development of solutions
for business integration was fully used.
The Ministry of State Administration and Administrative Reform (MSAAR)
strategy for further development and expansion of on-line services to
improve the quality of administration, aiming for as much of the population
as possible to be able to connect to administrative information and use
on-line services provided through the Internet.
Objectives
The project aimed to provide on-line admission to regional administrative
services ,facilitating communications between the regional administration,
the different regional administrative organizations, citizens and businesses
of the Republic of Bulgaria.
The second goal was to integrate the existing systems and database contents
with valuable information and to provide a secure and reliable mechanism
for access to it.
Description/Mode
The eOn-line project is a practical and secure means of transferring regional
administrative services. The target group is the general population of
Bulgaria. Internet access is about 50% of citizens above 16 or three million
citizens, including administative staff of the municipalities.
The system helps the regional administrations to organize their work
and enables faster communication with citizens and businesses. It complements
the existing systems and database content with valuable information and
provides a secure and reliable access mechanism.
Impact/results
The benefits of the Online Service project can be summarised as follows:
- Transparent Quality Services: The e-government regional Portal helps
limit corruption in the public administration and provides timely and
accurate information. The portal gives business people more flexibility
in the running of their businesses and minimizes time spent queueing for
requests for certificates from authorities.
- Improved Productivity: The e-government regional portal enables citizens
to access government information sources 24 hours a day, 7 days a week,
from any location. It is the next step toward broadening the reach of
e-government services and building a modern government services system.
The regional and local administration employees, powered by information
technologies, have access to necessary data quickly and on time. Control
over the process flow is also improved, due to tracking and notifications
about the status of the applications. This enables employees to be more
productive.
- Savings in Time and Money: The e-government regional portal enables
easier information exchange between the agencies and citizens/businesses.
The time needed to process one transaction is reduced, so employees can
process more applications in a given amount of time and dedicate themselves
to providing more quality services. Improved efficiency of work means
cost savings and better coordination between regional and local agencies.
The citizens and businesses of the regions no longer have to queue, as
applications can be submitted online. Also, the status of a request or
process can be checked online. Prepared documents are mailed and administrative
fees are collected cash on delivery.
Civil Control over Authorities: Using the applications tracking feature
of the e-government regional portal, citizens and
businesses can track the execution of their application and escalate
any problems to the mayor and governor
Other information
Submissions: European eGovernment Awards 2007
Contact information
Council of Ministers of the Republic of Bulgaria
R.Trifonov
r.trifonov@government.bg
http://www.ccit.government.bg
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 16.05.2007
Dell Opens a New Office in Bulgaria
The opening of the brand new Dell office in Bulgaria was
officially announced today May 16, 2007, at a press conference in hotel
“Hilton”. All journalists and guests of the event were able to meet and
get to know the new Corporate and SMB business manager of Dell, Bulgaria-
Mr. Alexander Aleksandrov.The newly found office is part of the unceasing
investments of Dell company which aim is to give its customers better
products and is also part from the long term growth of the company.
“Our first office in Bulgaria signalize for our plans
to develop the market in this part of Europe. Bulgaria is of great importance
for us, because of her proximity to huge number of clients and to the
expected market development of the countries in Central and East Europe.
We are very happy that Bulgaria is now part of Dell family”- said Dragosh
Mateescu, manager of Dell - Bulgaria and Romania.
Dragosh Mateescu also introduced the other participants
in the press conference: Mr. Serban Zirnovam-Enterprise Business Manager
and Mr. Tim Beard, Enterprise Storage Business Manager. The new products
in the area of data bases, applications for wireless connection between
the users, notebooks and desktops, printers, corporate servers and game
consoles were shown over a short presentation. The guests of the conference
were also introduced with the achieved results and future plans of DELL.
       
The main DELL priority still remains the direct connection
and relationship with its customers. The company will continue working
selling computer technology directly to the customers, giving them the
best prices.
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