The public does not have much knowledge and a lot of information about the Digital Agenda of the European Union and that is why the project “Increasing Civic Engagement in the Digital Agenda – ICEDA” which is co-financed by the European Union, aims to increase the participation of civil society organizations in promoting, shaping and implementing the Digital Agenda in the Western Balkans. As part of the project, the Metamorphosis Foundation for Internet and Society is organizing an online event “Dialogues for the Digital Agenda”. The event will take place on 30 ...

Today, 16.10.2020, the second meeting of the ICEDA Steering Committee members was held on the ZOOM platform, for the purpose of discussing the received application from the Call for applications to provide support to CSOs to promote the Digital Agenda through the first Small Grants Scheme Cycle LOT 1: Awarding of sub-grants for the e-Government Support Centers, and awarding 15 small grants to CSOs from Albania, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia (the target is approximately 3 grants per country), in the range between EUR 13.000 to EUR 17.000 per grant. The Steering Committee ...

Unlike other sectors in the Macedonian economy, the IT sector stands out with the fact that the gap between men and women is almost non-existent. In some industries, such as digital marketing, the ratio is 50 percent women versus 40 percent men. Over the years, the number of women graduates in formal education is on the rise. If in 2013, 86 students graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies (FEЕIT), last year their number reached 144. The situation is similar at the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering (FCSE), where seven years ago there were ...

Today, October 13th, at our request, a meeting was held between Metamorphosis Foundation and the Ministry for Information Society and Administration (MISA). The meeting was about presenting the project Increasing Civic Participation in the Digital Agenda – ICEDA, co-funded by the European Union, in which MISA is an associated partner, to the new Minister Jeton Shaqiri. The meeting was attended by MISA representatives among which the Minister Jeton Shaqiri and Elena Mancheva – Advisor to the Minister of IT Support and a member of the Advisory Body of Experts of ICEDA, while ...