26.03.2013

Brochure on personal data protection and privacy on the internet

  Brochure on personal data protection and privacy on the internet Within the frames of the CRISP project (Children’s Rights on the Internet – Safe and Protected) and in cooperation with the Directorate for Personal Data Protection, the Metamorphosis Foundation prepared and published the brochure “You decide…” Read more >>>

26.03.2013

Public debate on draft text of Creative Commons Licenses in Macedonian

Macedonia joins worldwide free culture movement through localization of the Creative Commons licenses in Macedonian and adaptation to Macedonian legislation. Therefore, Metamorphosis Foundation calls all interested stakeholders to join the public debate and to contribute to improvement of the licenses text with constructive recommendations. Draft text of Creative Commons licenses in Macedonian and English can be seen on the webpage for Macedonia: www.creativecommons.org/worldwide/mk Read more >>>  

26.03.2013

Social Media for Democracy

The project aims to enable democratic development in Macedonia through the use of new technologies – social media and citizen generated content. It will focus on capacity building of activists who already work on specific causes within their communities and at national level, aiming to provide them with skills and tools that would enable them to connect to each other and to the general population. The primary beneficiaries of the project will form the core group of leaders that will disseminate the knowledge further within their community and at a national level via the online tools, alongside raising public awareness about their particular causes. The trainees will be selected through an open competition disseminated via websites, mailing lists and blogs used by NGOs and civil activists, which is a form of preselecting only those candidates with the required basic levels of skills and interest. Project Purpose/Goal: Dissemination of technical and leadership skills in the civic sector in Macedonia, enabling the NGOs and individual activists to start

26.03.2013

Open Access

Second edition of the Metamorphosis ICT Guide was published. This edition is dedicated to Open Access. “Open access is the free online availability of digital content. It is best-known and most feasible for peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly journal articles, which scholars publish without expectation of payment”. The ICT Guide is a result of the cooperation between Metamorphosis Foundation and JISC and it is intended for everybody interested in open access, especially for students, professors, researchers, publishing houses. Download the Guide

26.03.2013

e-Society.Mk 2008

e-Society.Mk 2008 The fourth international conference ”e-Society.Mk” will be held in Skopje, Macedonia on December 10, 2008. This year the conference will focus on ICT usage in education. Please fill out the conference registration form . The registration deadline for the conference is 12:00, December 4th, 2008.

26.03.2013

e-Law: Online Privacy Initiative (OPI)

Overall Objective: To contribute to protection of human rights and development of democracy in Macedonia Project Purpose/Goal: To contribute to Increasing Privacy Protection in Macedonia Metamorphosis will carry out an assessment of the practices and procedures of the institutions, organizations, and firms for handling personal data. For this purpose a special methodology will be developed by an interdisciplinary working group. The assessment will serve as a baseline study to further develop project activities. Additionally, awareness raising campaign will be implemented targeting citizens, in one hand, and the personal data holders (companies and state bodies), on the other. The working group will also work on preparation of the Macedonian portion for the Privacy and Human Rights,  annual global report compiled by EPIC  and Privacy International, through a designated workshop. By the end of the project, Metamorphosis will conduct second assessment of target groups, providing verification of the project activities. Expected results: Increased public awareness of privacy and personal data protection issues Increased implementation of the laws protecting

26.03.2013

e-Law:COMMUNIA Thematic Network

The COMMUNIA Thematic Network aims at becoming a European point of reference for theoretical analysis and strategic policy discussion of existing and emerging issues concerning the public domain in the digital environment – as well as related topics, including, but not limited to, alternative forms of licensing for creative material; open access to scientific publications and research results; management of works whose authors are unknown (i.e. orphan works). Funded by the European Commission within the eContentplus framework, the 3-years long project expects to provide policy guidelines that will help each stakeholder involved – public and private, from the local to the European and global level. Metamorphosis Foundation is a founding member of the COMMUNIA Thematic Network, consisting of 51 members from Europe and beyond (including USA and Brasil). COMMUNIA is coordinated by the Politecnico of Torino’s NEXA Research Center for Internet and Society. It started its activities on 1 September 2007 and will end on 28 February 2011. Back to e-Law

25.03.2013

Education on Safe Internet Usage is Ongoing

Education on Safe Internet Usage is Ongoing More than 4300 children, parents and teachers from all over Macedonia have been included in the activities for safe internet use by the children, conducted in 28 elementary and secondary schools within the frames of the project Children’s Rights on the Internet – Safe and Protected (CRISP) implemented by the Metamorphosis Foundation. Read more>>>

25.03.2013

Educational seminar on children’s online safety held in Ohrid

Educational seminar on children’s online safety held in Ohrid An educational seminar was held (May 6th to 8th, 2008) within the frames of the project “Children’s Rights on the Internet – Safe and Protected” (CRISP), attended by representatives of several NGOs and schools from Macedonia. Read more…