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

05.01.2022

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 electronically is simple and the issued document reads that it contains all the data as the certificate obtained on paper, there are […]

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

23.12.2021

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 countries 2020, citizens’ participation is regulated and practiced in all of the Western Balkan countries, but the level of citizens’ engagement is […]

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

13.12.2021

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 rule of law are gradually eroding this hope, is that this Summit as a platform for global dialogue should not remain a […]

Open Data – when supply and demand meet halfway

24.11.2021

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 was introduced and promoted with the country’s membership in the Open Government Partnership in 2011. Consequently, in 2014 the Law on the […]

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

23.11.2021

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e-Participation: Regional Perspectives - Local Actions

23.11.2021

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 sporadically, are increasingly experimenting with creating Internet platforms or digital tools to enable citizens to access relevant public information they need, as […]