Speaker Profile: Dessi Pefeva

Ms. Dessi Pefeva is coordinator within the Internet Society Bulgaria. She is working on projects for support to e-Government initiatives based on free/open source software (FOSS) for the South-eastern Europe. She is actively participating in the work of the newly started TOSSAD and FLOSSWORLD Projects, funded by the EU FP6 Program. Ms. Pefeva organized the 2005 edition of the Bulgarian Big Brother Awards for government and private sector organisations which have done the most to threaten personal privacy in their countries. Dessi Pefeva is a member of ISOC.org, and member and contributor to European Digital Rights (EDRI).

Since October 2004, Dessi Pefeva is the Project Lead of Creative Commons Bulgaria initiative. She is a co-founder of the Bulgarian portal for Creative Commons content – Open Culture.

Dessi Pefeva is a contributor to the EPIC Annual Privacy and Human Rights Report 2005. She has publications in Bulgarian newspapers and magazines about Creative Commons, and she is Creative Commons and Free/open source software presenter.

Prior to joining the Internet Society, she was working on the development of the Bulgarian E-Government Strategy and Action Plan at the Coordination Center for Information, Communication and Government Technologies.