“A Guide to e-Government” book was published in October in Bulgaria.

Its authors, Bojil Dobrev and Eleonora Getsova (the latter is one of the owners and managers of ELISA CONSULT) are well experienced respectively in development of e-Government in Bulgaria and in related international projects.

The publisher is International University, Sofia.

"A Guide to Electronic Government" is intended for managers and employees of the public administration at different levels, information technology experts, students, scholars, and all participants in Bulgaria's electronic government development. It contains 100 answers to 10 questions concerning electronic government - applications, development factors, results, problems and solutions, practical steps for development, and over 100 best practice cases from 30 countries in Europe and the world. The book explains the policy and practice of the European Union, as well as solutions concerning electronic government by Hewlett Packard, IBM, Microsoft, and Novell. There is an English-Bulgarian glossary with over 330 entries and an index of 160 Internet sites that have to do with electronic government.

The promotion of the book took place on November 22^nd in The Museum of Communications in Sofia. The event was organized by the Government Agency for information Technologies and Communications and International University, Sofia.
See the pictures from the event…..(Gallery)

Alma Mons, the Regional Development Agency in Novi Sad , Serbia , organized and hosted the third training course on Competitive project proposal development delivered by ELISA CONSULT.

Representatives of the largest public and private Universities in the country took part in the training along with representatives of the local public administrations.

In three consecutive days in the end of October the trainees succeeded to develop the outline of their individual project proposals, whose topics varied from Information technologies and Software development, through introduction of the EU standards in wine production, to preservation of the traditional customs and crafts of the Slovak minority in the region. Of course, supported by the mentoring team of ELISA CONSULT.

We appreciate very much the efforts of all participants! Without their commitment the training would never be so successful!

We would like to express our gratitude to them and to the staff of Alma Mons for the best possible working environment and perfect organization of the training!

Actually, our trainees were so much “absorbed” by their work that they did not notice our camera…Now, they can see themselves “documented”. Gallery