Bulgarian foreign ministry goes Creative Commons

By Cory Doctorow at 10:07 am Friday, Oct 27

Veni sez, "The Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ivailo Kalfin started a blog after meeting with Joi Ito (iCommons chairman) and Paul Twomey (ICANN's President). But he did something more - opened the content of the www.mfa.government.bg site under Creative Commons License Attribution 2.5."

ICANN’s President gave high remarks on the policy Bulgaria has for Internet access and usage. He informed Minister Kalfin about the multiple business-oriented applications, and the effect of using IT in different branches of the economy.

Joichi Ito, one of the Internet pioneers in the development of blogs, spoke about the new culture and new opportunities, noting that the blogs are one of the most democratic tools for access to information.

Another topic covered was the improvement of the services about registration of domains in the .bg top level domain.

Minister Kalfin started his own blog, to be found at www.kalfin.eu, where he will be discussion issues about Bulgarian foreign policy, EU membership, etc. The blog is based on open source software - WordPress, and is the first such an initiative by a Bulgarian minister. Mr. Kalfin invited Joichi Ito to become an author at his blog - an invitation that was accepted by the famous Japanese IT-investor and blogger.”

Link (Thanks, Veni!)