28.03.2022

“The use of some electronic services has increased, but it is far from the desired level” – News Agency Meta.mk

Source: Portalb.mk The use of certain electronic services during 2021, compared to the period 2019/20 has slightly increased. This is shown by the data provided by ICEDA in cooperation with Portalb.mk, comparing them

08.02.2022

Our safety on the Internet depends on us too!

Our lives have become unimaginable without the Internet. It has become a powerful tool we use daily, for both professional and personal purposes. The Internet gives us many opportunities to save time and

28.01.2022

Interview with Bardhyl Jashari, Executive Director of Metamorphosis, on personal data protection and online privacy for akademik.mk

The interview is republished from akademik.mk. Metamorphosis is a non-governmental organization that has been working for 15 years to protect human rights on the Internet and to educate citizens about their rights on

24.01.2022

What is the role of the Personal Data Protection Officer?

The Personal Data Protection Officer (hereinafter the Officer) plays a key role in establishing and maintaining a personal data protection system for companies, non-profit organizations, government agencies or individuals who use personal data

05.01.2022

“For faculties, banks and some notaries, the electronic certificate is an unsolvable enigma” – News Agency Meta.mk

Photo: Portalb.mk Educational institutions, banks and notaries are insecure and not sufficiently informed whether to accept an electronically issued birth certificate. Although obtaining a birth certificate from the Office for Management of Registers

23.12.2021

E-participation: Empowering citizens’ voice in the digital space

Citizens’ participation is one of the crucial mechanisms for ensuring democracy in any society. According to the Baseline research of the state of e-government development & digital literacy in the targeted Western Balkan

13.12.2021

The Democracy Summit came at the right time, now action is needed

What is very important, for many countries, but especially for us who live in the Balkan countries, where the expectations and hopes from democracy were and still are high, although corruption and the

24.11.2021

Open Data – when supply and demand meet halfway

The concept of open data rests on the principle of open access, serving the public good by empowering citizens, boosting businness and informing social development. In North Macedonia, the concept of open data

23.11.2021

ADMs, AI and human rights: does your algorithm respect privacy?

Goce Arsovski

23.11.2021

e-Participation: Regional Perspectives – Local Actions

Digital innovation radically transforms democratic decision-making and citizen participation in social change. As witnesses to the global Covid-19 pandemic, we can see how public administrations in the region and the EU, planned or

05.11.2021

“Portalb: What steps should you take to obtain an electronic birth certificate” – News Agency Meta.mk

Obtaining documents with a physical presence, i.e. at the counters, costs people time, money and nerves. This was shown by the research on Portalb, where a birth certificate, which can be obtained in

03.11.2021

“Birth certificates older than 6 months shall be accepted, decided the Office for Management of Registers following the Portalb.mk research” – News Agency Meta.mk

Photo: Suad Bajrami, Portalb.mk The Office for Management of Registers informs that it has issued a decision to accept birth certificates older than six months. This was stated after Portalb.mk published the research