ESIS extension / Bulgaria / www Indicators / Update Memo 6

During the last quarter the increase of Web sites of schools and regional / local authorities was more considerable. A significant increase in the number of visitors to some university Web sites was observed because of the published information for the admittance of new students.

At the Swedish – Bulgarian IT-conference (13 – 14 September 2000) the Deputy Minister of Economy and Deputy Chairman of the Bulgarian E-commerce Interdepartmental Consultative Group announced the plans to implement an Online Administration project in co-operation with ERICSSON. The main objective of this Business-to-Administration E-commerce project is to establish a single entry point providing online access to the state administration via Internet. In the first stage, the customers will have the opportunity to obtain all the necessary information and documents – such as licenses, authorisation, certificates, quotas, etc. issued by the state administration. In the second stage, an online interactive information exchange system will be established. This system will allow an electronic exchange of documents with different government institutions. According to the schedule the project has to be finalised by mid-2001.

	Total number of "population" ⁽¹⁾	Total number of Web sites ⁽²⁾	% of website / total number of "population"	Source
Primary and secondary schools	3749	134	3.6	NSI, www.dir.bg www.osf.acad.bg www.gyuvetch.bg
High schools and universities	41	39	95.1	NSI, www.geology.bas.bg
National ministries	14	13	92.9	www.government.bg, www.online.bg
Regional and local authorities (regions, departments / counties, municipalities)	28 regions and 262 municipalities	53	18.3	NSI, www.dir.bg , www.gyuvetch.bg www.government.bg,
Hospitals/clinics	276 / 3610 ⁽³⁾	36	0.9	NSI, www.dir.bg www.gyuvetch.bg www.hit.bg
Museums	230	28	12.2	NSI, www.gyuvetch.bg www.museum.web.bg
Libraries	7283	33	0.5	NSI, www.gyuvetch.bg www.nl.acad.bg
Totals	15493	336	2.2

⁽¹⁾ Datafrom the National Statistical Institute (NSI) refer to1999 and to 1999/2000 school year.

⁽³⁾276 Health care establishments from which 193 hospitals, 3610 ambulatory – polyclinics.

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It does not necessarily reflect the views of the Commission, nor does the Commission accept responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of information contained herein.
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