19 May 2020
Be careful – be ware of a new scam with alleged cryptocurrency, warned the Computer Crime and Digital Forensics Sector of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Republic of North Macedonia through a press statement. Scammers target Macedonian internet users via the social networks or via e-mail in order to lure them to a fake […]
16 January 2020
Privacy International, with the support of more than 50 organizations worldwide, has published an open letter to Sundar Pichai, Alphabet Inc. ECO, Google’s mother company that demands that Google should take appropriate measures against the use of previously installed application of smartphones that use an Android system. With this initiative a warning is issued including […]
22 August 2019
Last year, every fifth citizen of North Macedonia accessed public administration through internet. While one out of twenty filled online official forms, show data from EUROSTAT the statistical office of the European Union (EU). In comparison, on average, in the European union every second citizen has access to information or services from state organs and […]
10 June 2019
The third edition of the international telecommunications conference “5G and Beyond”, officially opened today in Skopje. At the opening of the conference, Minister of Information Society and Administration Damjan Mancevski said that the technology is expected to bring real digital evolution, stimulation of economic growth, innovation and prosperity. “5G will change entire industries. These sectors […]
5 February 2019
More than 140 countries mark the Safer Internet Day on 5 February under the motto “Together for a better Internet”. The celebration of this day is an action call to all stakeholders to jointly help create a better Internet for everyone, especially the youth. On this occasion, Metamorphosis Foundation in cooperation with the Ministry of […]
10 September 2018
This week, on September 12, the European Parliament is going to vote on a bill that threatens to irreparably damage the Internet as we know it. Under the guise of copyright reform, there are are a number of “reforms” that are going to cripple fundamental rights online. One of them is Article 11 of the […]
22 March 2018
The state of freedom of expression in Eastern and Central Europe and Eurasia is the main topic of the first panel discussion at the second Regional Internet Freedom Summit, organized by the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative (ABA ROLI). The panel discussion was attended by the OSCE Ambassador in Skopje – Nina Suomalainen, […]
19 January 2016
Yesterday, the Prime Minister of Macedonia, Nikola Gruevski, although his resignation was acknowledged by Parliament Speaker Trajko Veljanoski, the Internet still recognizes him as Prime Minister. Gruevski is still Prime Minister on all official websites and the official website of the Government, even though now, he is only the President of the VMRO-DPMNE party and Emil […]
5 January 2016
Macedonian Academic and Research Network (MARNET) reacted to yesterday’s press conference by the Deputy Minister of Information Society, Alexander Kiracovski, where he accused the network of stealing the domain “zbogumnikola.mk” (FarewellNikola.mk) which was bought by the SDSM. MARNET says that for five years now, they have been operating as an independent public institution without any stains […]
10 December 2015
The need to strike a balance between freedom of expression and the right to privacy was the conclusion of the 11th E-Society Conference today. Dedicated to freedom and privacy the e-society conference was organized by the Foundation for Internet and Society, ‘Metamorphosis’ and the Institute of Human Rights and Peace based in Caen, France. The […]
23 June 2015
The European Commission and Council want to adopt a regulation that would allow internet service providers (ISPs) to discriminate among customers and charge extra for different types of online services. Only those who pay more will have easy access to an audience online – killing the openness that drives the internet’s social and economic success. […]
10 February 2015
Significantly weakened Internet, a number of web portals that cannot be loaded or are loaded after long wait for any information related to the “bomb” a huge movement on the social networks – these are the results of the event of the day, i.e. the press conference of Zoran Zaev, which became the event of […]
23 January 2015
A group of civil society organizations from around the world has announced the Internet Social Forum (ISF), to bring together and articulate bottom-up perspectives on the Internet we want . Taking inspiration from the World Social Forum, and its clarion call, Another World is possible , the group seeks to draw urgent attention to the […]
18 January 2015
Along with actual gunfights in Paris and the counterterrorist actions that later followed in Germany, France and Belgium, in which several extremists were killed and arrested, a fierce military propaganda is led online by jihadists who control the territory of the Islamic State. Extreme Islamists fighting in Iraq and Syria intensively use the Internet, social […]
11 December 2014
Metamorphosis Foundation organized 10th anniversary international conference “E-society.mk” on topic “Human Rights on the Internet – Freedom of expression, hate speech and privacy in the digital world”. A handbook on privacy protection and responsible use of the Internet, as well as the mobile application “nemrazi.mk” for reporting hate speech on social networks and information about […]
