[chapter-delegates] Re: [IP] Request for help for Ukraine from IP list

[Gene Gaines]

George,

Re your request to Dave Farber's IP elist (below).

Some Internet Society (ISOC) chapters may be able to
assist you.

I will copy this to Veni Markovski, who has done great
work in Bulgaria concerning working with the State in
setting up and liberalizing the telecommunications
authority.  Veni is on the Board of Trustees of ISOC,
and has done great work there.

Perhaps Veni has some ideas, as he resides in Bulgaria
and I am in the U.S.  I understand he speaks and writes
adequate Russian.

Veni has been president of the ISOC Bulgaria Chapter
since 1995.  Some of the projects he has headed there:

- Legal expert to the Parliamentary Committee on Transport
  and Telecommunications

- Helped to draft and pass two Telecommunications Acts (2001,
  2003)
  
- Helped to draft and pass The E-Document and E-Signature Act
  (2000)
  
- Helped to draft and pass the Computer Crimes chapter in the
  Penal Code (2002)

- Helped to draft the Free and Open Source Software Usage in
  the State Administration Act

- Implemented first ever legal strategy to successfully
  eliminate legal barriers to free Internet access (1999)

- Helped the Bulgarian government to define positions on the
  WSIS and other Internet-related policies

Gene Gaines
gene.gaines at gainesgroup.com
VP, Washington DC USA Chapter of the Internet Society



On Monday, May 30, 2005, 3:06:21 PM, David Farber wrote:

> Begin forwarded message:

> From: George Sadowsky <george.sadowsky at internews.org>
> Date: May 30, 2005 9:34:13 AM EDT
> To: dave at farber.net
> Cc: foi at stc.gov.ua, maria at internews.ua, malihins at internews.ua
> Subject: Request for help for Ukraine from IP list


> Dave,

> I am currently in Kiev, Ukraine, working with Internews and the newly
> formed Ukranian National Commission on Communications Regulation, the
> intended equivalent of our FCC in the United States.

> The Commission was established within the last month.  They have no
> building and no money yet, and as you can imagine given the recent
> Orange Revolution, there are political overtones of everything
> related to them.

> I met one of the 8 members today, an author of previous  
> telecommunications law for the country.  He is desperate to find
> descriptions of similar organizations, FCC, OFCOM, etc. that describe
> their organization and structure, operation, budget and staffing
> etc., i.e. anything that would provide the Commission with models for
> how to structure themselves effectively and then begin to function.
> Materials will have to be translated into Ukranian, so really lengthy
> texts won't be of much value.

> Can your IP readers point us towards such texts, preferably but not
> necessarily on-line?  At this point, anything relevant will help.  In
> addition, are any of your readers fluent in either Russian or
> Ukrainian and also consultants who could address these questions
> knowledgeably in on-site training activities?

> Regards,

> George Sadowsky

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