Tag: E-Society

The last session of today’s e-Society.mk International Conference, which has been organized by Metamorphosis Foundation for the 19th time this year, was dedicated to the issue of disinformation and abuse of artificial intelligence for malign influence on democracy or, more specifically, on the elections and the opinions of the voters. The topic “Disinformation on Steroids: Threat to Election Integrity” was...

Photo: Meta.mk, 19 December 2023 Metamorphosis Foundation launched a process of establishing a Coalition For Responsible Artificial Intelligence, that will include stakeholders from several sectors, informed Bardhyl Jashari, Executive Director of the Foundation, closing this year’s edition of the international conference “e-Society.mk”, which was organized by Metamorphosis for the 19th time. As Jashari explained at the end of the conference that...

(This content is a translation of the original article in Macedonian, published on the 8th of December 2022) Parents should teach their children about the limits of privacy in the physical and the online world, while at the same time, a solution should be provided to secure support for young people. These were the main conclusions from the debate in the...

(This content is a translation of the original article in Macedonian, published on the 7th of December 2022) To minimize the negative effects of disinformation on democracy, we must jointly fight it. For that to happen, the institutions must be transparent and the media and the civil society must actively be checking and debunking disinformation. Media education on critical thinking...

(This content is a translation of the original article in Macedonian, published on the 7th of December 2022) The video surveillance systems and the processing of biometric data have an enormous inherent risk of violating privacy, which is one of the human rights, and intrusion of the security services and the authorities in the private lives. That was the topic...

(This content is a translation of the original article in Macedonian, published on the 6th of December 2022) We must have trained and educated citizens with both knowledge and skills if we want to counteract the cybersecurity challenges, while the country must be efficient and provide appropriate legislation. This, among the other things, was highlighted in the panel discussion “Cybersecurity...

(This content is a translation of the original article in Macedonian, published on the 6th of December 2022) Metamorphosis Foundation for the 18th time organized the international e-Society.mk conference, which started on the 6th of December. The two-day conference in the Marriott hotel in Skopje with the motto “Cyber Resilience for Freedom and Security” started in a completely full room,...

Journalism is at the crossroads today, with the mounting risk of being forced to withdraw from the place called "The Noise" and where it can't think. These are places where the journalists can be manipulated to spread fake news, places that were created to spread fake news, in order to discredit the journalists. This was pinpointed today by Associate...

There is not enough knowledge about North Macedonia's Digital Agenda and there is even less knowledge about the available e-services that the institutions offer to the citizens. As witnesses of the global COVID-19 pandemic, we can notice that the approach toward a digital transformation is more than a necessary step for better functioning of the society and we can...

For the fourteenth time in a row, Metamorphosis Foundation for Internet and Society is organizing the international conference e-Society.mk. The conference will take place on 11 December 2018 at Holiday Inn hotel in Skopje, and will address the topic of “Media literate citizens for accountable institutions”. In five separate sessions, more than twenty representatives of institutions, media organizations and the...

Reforms in the media must be done professionally, through debate and separate regulation is needed for internet portals in order to avoid abuse, was the conclusion from the conference "e-society" on "Media and Policy" organized by the Foundation for Internet and Society "Metamorphosis". Minister of Information Society and Administration, Damjan Mancevski, believes that online portals are part of the problems...

Tomorrow, the 12th International Conference "E-Society.mk" will be held on "Fact checking and the impact of new technologies in journalism", organized by the Foundation for Internet and Society "Metamorphosis". The conference will be held at the "Holiday Inn" hotel in Skopje and is organized under the USAID's Strengthening Media in Macedonia component "Media Fact Checking Service", implemented by "Metamorphosis". Guest speakers...