Metamorphosis Foundation, in collaboration with the National Center for Computer Incident Response (MKD – CIRT) of the Agency for Electronic Communications, is organizing a webinar called “Basics of Cybersecurity with the MKD – CIRT” on 15.02.2023 (Wednesday) from 10:00 to 12:00. The webinar is organized within the framework of the project “Increasing Civic Engagement in the Digital Agenda – ICEDA”, co-funded by the European Union.

The webinar is directed towards building the citizens’ capacities for cybersecurity basics, maintaining cyber hygiene, as well as providing good practices for the online security of citizens, digital devices, and data on the internet. Among other things, the citizens will be able to recognize phishing and fake emails and will know how to protect themselves on social media and their personal data on the internet after the webinar. The citizens will also be introduced to cybersecurity in the home, the techniques of protection of important data, the use of strong passwords, ransomware, and the importance of backup. The role the MKD – CIRT plays in the area of cybersecurity, as well as the services and the free online trainings it provides for the citizens will also be emphasized during the webinar.

The webinar will be held in the Macedonian language and will take place on the ZOOM platform. All registered users will get a link to join ZOOM a day before the webinar. Those who attend the webinar will also get participation certificates on the e-mail addresses they submitted during the registration.

All parties interested in attending the webinar are invited to fill in the registration form by 13.02.2023 at the latest: https://forms.gle/K38sz1zgpRSydfzR9 .

Note: The webinar will be recorded and posted on the YouTube channel of Metamorphosis Foundation for the needs of this project. Afterward, it will be posted on social media to serve as a useful resource of knowledge for the wider public.

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The project “Increasing Civic Engagement in the Digital Agenda – ICEDA” is implemented by the Metamorphosis Foundation (North Macedonia), the Academy of e-Governance (Estonia), Levizja Mjaft! (Albania), Partners for Democratic Change Serbia (Serbia), NGO 35mm (Montenegro), and ODK – Open Data Kosovo (Kosovo). The project is being implemented with financial support from the European Union.

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