E-Government

The first for the year government session begins at 10 o'clock, reported the Bulgarian National Television. 

Cabinet ministers will consider the proposal to set up a Transparency Commission under the Human Medicinal Products Act and determine its composition.

Keep your eyes on Estonia in the coming year. Its ongoing efforts to make government more digital promise to guide similar pushes in other parts of the globe and lawmakers and regulators try to move away, as much as possible, from paper-based processes.

The Parliament postponed the issuance of identity papers with electronic identification to January 1, 2020, Focus News Agency reports. The introduction of new-generation identity papers with electronic identification was previously planned for January 1, 2019.

Bulgaria is one of the four countries where women have more fundamental digital skills than men and one of the three in which the gap between men and women working in the field of communication technologies is the smallest. The women working in it are 30.2% - twice as high as the EU average.

The Novi Sad-based SHARE Foundation NGO warned that the Serbian authorities are pushing through the country's first Law on Critical Infrastructure without a period of public discussion or a clear definition of what exactly is meant by critical infrastructure. 

The Greek government is planning all sorts of fanfare to mark the "end" of the memorandums in August, in spite of numerous warnings concerning the dangers of any backtracking on reforms.

LogSentinel's solution will supercharge the eGovernment information security in Bulgaria by providing a secure audit trail to help protect the personal data of all Bulgarian citizens.

It was organized by the World Economic Forum in Sofia within the framework of the Western Balkans Summit, the Serbian government announced.

State sell-off fund TAIPED is preparing to announce a tender in the next few months for the utilization of the property of the former US military base near Iraklio on Crete.

The asset to be conceded - with the option to open a casino too - covers 350,000 square meters, is located by the sea and is considered ideal for the development of a tourism accommodation complex.

Last week, Nenad Popovic, a member of her cabinet, took to Twitter to publicly denounce the decision to import a picture book for preschool children from Croatia that features "a boy who has two moms" and "a girl who has two dads." Brnabic, who is openly lesbian, reacted at the time by saying that Popovic should focus on his duties as a minister.