Overview
Lobbying Costs
37,500€
Financial year: Jan 2020 - Dec 2020
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.75 Fte (3)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
0
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Internet Society - Bulgaria (ISOC-Bulgaria)
EU Transparency Register
212858810418-75 First registered on 07 Jan 2013
Goals / Remit
Promote the open, free and bottom-up development of the internet.
Ensure that Bulgaria and other countries have Internet-friendly legislation.Main EU files targeted
Copyright, internet (net neutrality, etc.), tackling fake news (our chair was in 2018 a member of the HLEG on fake news and online disinformation to the European Commission, and we had two projects in 2020-2021 against covid-19 related disinformation), children online protection, fighting extremism and hate language online. ISOC Bulgaria is co-organizer of the Big Brother Anti-Awards, Bulgarian edition.
Address
Head Office
Ivan Susanin Str., 39, fl.2, ap. D
Sofia 1618
BULGARIA -
People
Total lobbyists declared
3
Employment time Lobbyists 25% 3 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.75
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
In September 2020 ISOC - Bulgaria successfully completed a two-month project (funded by the Internet Society Foundation) fighting misinformation related to the coronavirus pandemic. As part of this project, a new Facebook page was created, which published video conversations with medical doctors and specialists on the subject. The video interviews achieved between 35.1 thousand and 89.1 thousand views. The total number of people ISOC Bulgaria managed to reach through the small scale advertising campaign on Facebook was 979 477 people, all of them on the territory of Bulgaria! The feedback was positive, including for the articles shared, blog entries, etc. The project was covered by some of the national traditional media.
On 15 October 2020 ISOC Bulgaria started a new project COVID-19: facts vs rumors funded by the US State Department. Within this project two types of information has been shared:
Verified information for COVID-19
Information that shatters rumors, conspiracy theories, etc. related to COVID-19
The Facebook page, which was created for the project, managed to reach 10,760 followers by December 11, and the articles, video interviews and other information has not only reached hundreds of thousands of people, but has been shared widely, and has managed to become a natural place for discussions, which - unlike in other FB pages - is being moderated and thus rejects trolling and encourages positive discussions.Person in charge of EU relations
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
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Categories
Category
III - Non-governmental organisations
Subcategory
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
We are an official chapter of the Internet Society (based in Reston, VA, USA and Geneva, Switzerland)
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2020 - Dec 2020
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
37,500€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
We maintain a facebook page with such information - https://www.facebook.com/internetsocietybg/
Other activities
Internet governance is key on our agenda for quite a while now (since 1999 at least).
Meetings
Meetings
None declared