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A youth-centered workshop on countering disinformation and fact-checking was held in Veles

More than a dozen young people from North Macedonia took part in the second workshop as part of the “Journalism for the New Generation” program on the subject of “Countering Disinformation and Fact Checking” which took place from March 13 to 15 near Veles. At the three-day workshop organized by the Metamorphosis Foundation together with the International Center for...

The disinformation coupled with abuse of artificial intelligence can be harmful to the elections

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...

Metamorphosis Foundation is establishing a Coalition For Responsible Artificial Intelligence in North Macedonia

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...

Young people in a three-day-workshop learned about data visualization [Gallery]

Photo: Meta.mk A three-day training on data journalism and visualization was held in Public Room in Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia, from 14 to 16 December. The training in English was attended by 14 young people, primarily students and journalists from all over North Macedonia. The training was conducted by Derek Willis, lecturer at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism...

Metamorphosis and NOVA working together to raise students’ media literacy knowledge

Novakovski and Jashari signed a Memorandum of Cooperation. Photo: Meta.mk The Metamorphosis Foundation for Internet and Society and NOVA International School Skopje launched cooperation for joint raising of the media literacy of the students' media literacy and raising awareness about the role of digital media today. To that end, the Principal of NOVA International School Skopje, Ivan Novakovski, and the Executive...

Macedonian journalists send a message on the protest: NO to censorship

Dozens of Macedonian journalists from several media outlets yesterday came out for a peaceful protest in front of the Civil Court in Skopje, expressing their revolt against the court verdict against the Investigative Reporting Laboratory (IRL), which is seen as a threat of censorship, an attempt to silence and control journalism. Organized by the Association of Journalists of Macedonia (AJM)...

Antidisinfo.net – New Tool for Fighting Disinformation

The Metamorphosis Foundation launched its new website – Anti-disinformation Network for the Balkans, Antifisinfo.net. This website is a vital resource for the public, journalists and policy-makers for revealing foreign malign influence in the Western Balkan by exposing and mapping the flow of disinformation and propaganda originating from external actors throughout the region. “The Anti-disinformation Network for the Balkans is constantly carrying out...

Public debate on the Draft Strategy on Transparency: If corruption is a disease, transparency is the treatment

Photo: Government of the RNM The second public debate on the Draft Strategy on Transparency 2023-2026, organized by the Policy and Good Governance Cabinet of the Government in cooperation with the Metamorphosis Foundation, took place in Veles. The Vice President of the Government in charge of Policy and Good Governance, Slavica Grkovska, addressed the participants of the debate with a quote...

Young journalists from Metamorphosis Foundation on a study visit in the USA

Photo: Metamorphosis Foundation Two interns from the media outlets working under the auspices of Metamorphosis Foundation - Meta.mk and Portalb.mk - together with two representatives of the Foundation itself, were on a week-long study visit in Washington, USA. The study visit was organized by the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ), which has been Metamorphosis’s partner for several years. Apart from the...

The digitalization in North Macedonia in 2022: One-click services are still far away, the citizens pay the price

The reforms concerning digitalization, their progress, are ongoing challenges that North Macedonia faces. Digitalization should be in step with the latest trends and improve the lives of the citizens, offering high-quality, fast, and efficient services. At a time when the world and Western countries are moving forward every day, the Republic of North Macedonia (MKD) is still lacking appropriate...

In case of cyber violence, young people should turn to a trustworthy adult

(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...

“E-Society.mk”: The fight against disinformation requires transparent institutions, active media and civil society efforts

(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...

“e-Society.mk”: Video surveillance can easily “delete” privacy

(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...

“e-Society.mk”: Where are the Balkans in the Digital Agenda?

(This content is a translation of the original article in Macedonian, published on the 6th of December 2022) The first panel discussion of the 18th international conference e-Society.mk, which started on the 6th of December, was devoted to the topic “Digital Agenda Observatory – Where is the Western Balkans now?” The EU Digital Agenda for the Western Balkans was adopted...

e-Society.mk annual conference opened, cyber resilience for freedom and security in focus

(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,...

The EFCSN Association presented in Brussels as an advocate and voice for fact-checkers in Europe

The European Fact-Checking Standards Network (EFCSN) presented its Governance Body and newly-written Code of professional standards at a public event in Brussels on November 16 attended by representatives of EU institutions, digital media platforms and civil society. Over the past year, the EFCSN project has brought together nearly 50 fact-checking organisations from across Europe to write a Code of professional standards that organisations will...

The “Transparent Man” initiative of the Goethe Institut and the Metamorphosis Foundation began with the opening of an exhibition

The beginning of the “Transparent Man” initiative was marked today with the opening of the interactive exhibition “What the future wants” in “Public Room” in Skopje. The Goethe Institut Skopje in cooperation with the Metamorphosis Foundation implements this initiative, which aims to promote the media and information skills of the younger generation and their environment – parents, teachers, and...

In NMacedonia, state institutions without web sites and social networks presence, but with press officers “who are on vacation”

The levels of transparency and accountability of the state institutions in North Macedonia vary widely. Some of the state organs rank high on the list of accountable institutions, and are even among the best in the region, while others are at the bottom of the same list and almost unreachable for the citizens. Likewise, some of the institutions in North...

The institutions in North Macedonia still publish data in scan-to-PDF documents

If the personnel of the institutions had been trained to work with open data and about the process of publishing this data, as well as the advanced technical aspects thereof, then this knowledge has to be put into practice in their everyday work. This is the opinion of Professor Ivan Chorbev, a Dean at the Faculty of Computer Science...

European fact-checkers approve a Code of professional standards – Metamorphosis Foundation signatory from N. Macedonia

More than 40 fact-checking organisations across Europe have agreed upon a professional Code that defines the standards of methodology, ethics and transparency required to combat misinformation effectively and with integrity. The “European Code of Standards for Independent Fact-Checking Organisation”, which was published today, has been developed through a project involving fact-checking organisations from more than 30 countries across Europe. It...