I will conclude my impressions from this part of the meeting with a quote by John Kerry, around which the participants of the conference united – print publications are a dying informational variety of humanity.

Digitalizing television: Made in BG. The previous discussionbrought agreement between the participants but this one provoked a more passionate exchange of opinions. Martin Zahariev explained in detail the dimensions and history of TV digitalization. The two hour and a half discussion was the playground of many representatives of different countries – representatives of SAITC (State Agency for Information Technology and Communications), representatives of the Austrian company ORS, which plans to invest in digitalizing in Bulgaria, media expert Georgi Lozanov, parliament member Ivo Atanasov, Dimitar Tzonev from BNT (Bulgarian National Television). Unfortunately, missing were representatives from the private media and CRC (Communication Regulation Commission).

The plan is for digitalizing the Bulgarian TV until the end of 2012. More or less, the participants of the discussion expressed their doubts that this deadline will not be kept and they predicted that a realistic deadline is 2015. Many technical and social question marks came up and one of the very important topics was the imperfections of the normative basis, which consists of many unclear points and a lack of regulated conditions. Commented was also the effect, which digitalization will have on the public interest and the freedom of speech. This discussion ended with the words that digitalization is something, which will happen because the exchange of old technologies with new ones is inevitable.