Memorandum between the Bulgarian Branch Organisations in the ICT sector and Political Party GERB

On 30 June 2009 in Sofia, Bulgaria was signed a Memorandum of understanding between the Bulgarian ICT branch organizations – BAIT, BASSCOM, the Bulgarian ICT Cluster, Bulgarian Web Association, Association Electronic Communications and Political Party GERB.

The Memorandum states that the bissness and policy makers will create and fulfill state policies for stable development for the ICT sector and the Bulgarian Economy. They will focus on improvement of the educational system in the state through use of the ICT in the educational processes, as well as increasing the IT literacy of the population.

One of the priorities will be adoption of the legislation necessary for the development of public-private partnerships (PPP) in the sector, which will support the development of the other individual sectors and industries in the economy which are not subject to investment and trade interset. The business will coordinate the significant ICT projects with the goal to optimize the state expenses and to increase the share of the public services, provided by the private sector. Last but not least, a set of adecuate measures – legislative, economical, financial will be prepeared, which will create favorable conditions for development of innovations and their industrialization.