In the final quarter of 2024, the information environment in the Western Balkans was heavily saturated with disinformation, particularly anti-democratic narratives featuring anti-Western and anti-EU rhetoric. These were largely fueled by the region’s domestic political developments, from protests to electoral cycles, as well as the U.S. presidential election. Although disinformation about Russia’s war against Ukraine […]

Throughout the first quarter of 2024, the spread of anti-democratic disinformation remained a significant global concern, as it was declared a ‘super year’ for elections, which take place in 72 countries home to almost half of the world population. Some of the recent (Serbia in December) and upcoming elections (North Macedonia in April) directly concern […]

For democracy to be sustainable and functional, it is necessary not only inclusive and active citizenship but also a well-informed public, which enables quality decision-making based on knowledge. In contrast, freedoms of expression and the media are threatened by a wave of disinformation that is part of populist authoritarian propaganda from domestic and foreign sources. […]

In the period June 2021 to February 2022, the team of the portal for public accountability, transparency and fact-checking, Truthmeter, with the support of Meta and Portalb, the other two portals by the Foundation for Internet and Society, Metamorphosis, worked on a project entitled “Rapid Response to Vaccine Misinformation”, assisted by the Balkan Fund for […]

The publication “A Mini-Guide to Conspiracy Theories” builds on the Handbook for Informal Media Literacy Education “Critical Thinking to Exposing Misinformation” previously published as part of the Metamorphosis Foundation’s Critical Thinking for Mediawise Citizens project implemented by the Metamorphosis Foundation and Eurothink with the support of the European Union. The handbook serves as a key […]

The info package was created by the NGO Calidus with the support from Metamorphosis and TechSoup Europe. The info package contains basic information related to media literacy as well as examples of lesson plans that can be used by the teaching staff (teachers) as a tool during media literacy classes.

What is good governance? What are the five key characteristics of good governance? Good governance refers to a government system which produces results that meet the needs of the society by making the best use of the available resources. Find out more in this document.

Do you know what open data is? What are the benefits of opening the data of state institutions? Open data is data published in a computer-processable format that can be freely used, reused, and redistributed by anyone, without limitation. Publishing open data brings multiple benefits to society as a whole. FInd out more in this […]

Between December 2018 and March 2019, the consortium of 6 regional countries as well as the Westminster Foundation for Democracy developed the Regional Openness Index, which served as an indicator regarding the measuring of the level of transparency of governments and ministries of the Western Balkans countries as well as availability of information to citizens. […]

Openness represents a key condition for democracy – since it allows citizens to receive information and knowledge necessary for equal participation in political life, effective decision making and holding institutions accountable for policies which they conduct. Institutions worldwide undertake specific activities with the aim to enhance their transparency and accountability before the citizens. The Roadmap […]