Balkan Informatics Review is an independent, English-language publication of record for informatics, information systems, and computing research across the Balkan peninsula and the broader Southeast European region. We were founded in 2019 by a small group of postgraduate students and early-career researchers who shared a frustration: meaningful work being produced in Sofia, Belgrade, Bucharest, Skopje, Zagreb, Ljubljana, Thessaloniki, and Tirana was not getting structured journalistic coverage, even when it appeared in respectable international venues.
Our remit is narrow on purpose. We cover:
— Academic conferences, workshops, and symposia hosted by Southeast European institutions, with particular attention to chapter-level activities of the Association for Information Systems and the IEEE Computer Society.
— Faculty- and department-level developments at the region's leading computing schools: Sofia University FMI, the University of Belgrade, "Politehnica" University of Bucharest, the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje, and others.
— Research trends specific to the region: cybersecurity for financial services, e-government informatics, software engineering for the regional outsourcing sector, and the role of EU framework programmes in shaping local research agendas.
— Doctoral pipelines, postdoctoral mobility, and the slow, uneven process by which national IS communities professionalize.
The Review is not funded by, affiliated with, or beholden to any single university, chapter, ministry, vendor, or industry association. Where we cover an event, we attend in person where possible or rely on official program materials and chapter communications, and we say so. We do not run sponsored content or paid placements, and we do not accept compensation for coverage.
Our editorial team is small and rotates. Bylines are sometimes pseudonymous to protect early-career contributors operating in small national academic environments where coverage decisions can be politically sensitive. This is a deliberate editorial policy, not an oversight.
We take factual accuracy seriously. Corrections and clarifications are welcome and will be published promptly. Please contact the editorial address at the foot of any page.