The Contest Evaluation Committee announced the winners of the first three places in the essay contest organized by LIBRe Foundation.
LIBRe Essay Contest 2016 is an initiative through which LIBRe Foundation aims to stimulate students in Bulgaria towards development in the extremely promising field of ICT Law. The contest provoked students with multidisciplinary interests to demonstrate their knowledge and creativity in the field of regulation of the digital society.
LIBRe Essay Contest 2016 was launched in January, when the website of the competition was published: www.contest2016.libreresearchgroup.org. Students had the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the thematic areas, terms of participation, the prizes, and the evaluation committee, and could also submit their works and contact LIBRe Foundation’s team for any questions.
Two informative meetings with students were held within the contest’s timeframe in partnership with lecturers from Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski” and the University of National and World Economy. Experts from LIBRe Foundation introduced the students to the current ICT Law issues and provided detailed information about the contest.
The deadline for submission of the essays was 30.04.2016. The works received presented interesting topics in various fields such as privacy, information security and cybercrime, psychology of cyberspace, identity in the online space, etc.
The essays were reviewed by an evaluation committee consisting of experts in ICT law, judges, lawyers, representatives of the state administration, IT specialists, psychologists, etc.
Each participant was personally contacted by the team of LIBRe Foundation with their individual performance results.
The names of the three winners are published on the contest website, where information about the awards could also be found.
LIBRe Foundation’s team would like express our sincere thanks to all participants, evaluators, and partners for the time and effort devoted to LIBRe Essay Contest 2016!