Georgi Parvanov: The liquidation of Bulgarian electronics was a mistake

“The liquidation of the Bulgarian electronic industry and the scattering of a significant part of our manpower potential in this branch was one of the biggest mistakes of all governments during the transition,” announced President Georgi Parvanov at the Jubilee Session on the 50th anniversary of the first Computing Centre in Bulgaria yesterday. He described the establishment of the Centre as a strategic move and said that as a graduate of the Mathematical School in the town of Pernik he had been pleased to partake in a training programme at the territorial Computing Centre.

The Head of State said that in the 1980's a total of 130,000 people were employed in the sector but, at present, the respective figure was three times smaller - about 44,000 people. According to him, the labour power in the sector and the scientific units and companies could be maintained, transformed and modernised in order to become operational and efficient in the new conditions but this has not happened.

Georgi Parvanov expressed his belief that Bulgaria had the potential to return on the global ICT map and become part of the modern information society. "I believe and I am convinced that we can and have the potential to return to our traditionally good positions in electronics," he added. The President was clear that this would require a consistent State policy and strategy. He stated that Bulgaria needed not just highways and appropriate transport infrastructure, but information lines and electronic infrastructure as well.

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