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The International Open Data Conference “Data and the Culture of Openness” that is organized by the Metamorphosis Foundation was opened today at the Holiday Inn hotel. Today, two sessions of the three-day program took place at the Conference that is organized as part of the USAID Project for civic engagement. At the opening of the conference, in his opening speech,...

According to the latest Openness Index, which ranked four countries from the Western Balkans - North Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, i.e. their governments and parliaments, the Government of North Macedonia was ranked first on the list, while the country's Parliament was ranked third. The evaluation of the state of good governance of the parliaments and the executive...

Only 10 municipalities in North Macedonia have published civil budgets, while the local self-government units are meeting only a modest 27% of the indicators in the sub-domain of financial transparency. The municipalities aren't publishing data about salaries of officials and the salaries of the members of their councils. This is just a small part of the results of the research...

The online Open Data Hackathon for students and start-ups has a winner. The Discindo team offered the best and most creative software solution for the challenge that the local self-government units are facing when publishing the budget, as part of the hackathon that was organized by the Metamorphosis Foundation for Internet and Society as part of the USAID Civic...

The Ministry of Information Society and Administration (MISA) of North Macedonia, in cooperation with Metamorphosis Foundation, as part of the project for Civic participation, supported by USAID, has developed online platform i.e. web portal for Open Government Partnership. "The goal of the portal for Open Government Partnership (OGP) has the purpose of a platform for interaction and exchange of information...

In conditions when the situation with the tourism sector is painful and complex, it is hard to imagine that one measure can compensate the consequences from the COVID-19 pandemic due to the scope of the problems that resulted and are getting increased. A new critical period has started whena new set of economic measures will be necessary, states the...

The USAID Representative in North Macedonia Erik Janowsky and North Macedonia’s Minister of Finance signed an joint agreement for $16 million by the US to help North Macedonia reduce corruption, better integrate youth in society, and increase economic competitiveness. The agreement will help national and municipal government efforts to leverage and successfully manage financial resources and implement accountability mechanisms; the...

From 16 to 18 May 2019 Metamorphosis shared key insights from their recent work at the 8th edition of the international conference Political Accountability and New Technologies – POINT in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. POINT is jointly organized by the ACTION SEE network, which is active in six Western Balkans countries. At the event opening (video), the manager of the...

Through authentic interpretation, the Government of North Macedonia, together with Parliament and various government institutions, are putting right the injustice the former VMRO-DPMNE government inflicted on non-governmental organizations. NGOs were penalized and unjustly fined for mistakes they had not committed. This was today stated by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Radmila Šekerinska. She added that through the...