Growth of eGovernment services in Macedonia

This study shows the enormous growth of eGovernment services in Republic of Macedonia for the period of 2004 up to 2007. It is shown that in comparison to the EU member states and new member states Macedonia has also growing trend and will reach the objectives set in EU states, but at least 5 years later. Plenty of activities have been realized to enable this enormous growth, such as, establishing of National Strategy for Information Society (as possibility for donors to see where Macedonia would like to be and how it will reach the goal), realization of government contract with Microsoft for establishing basic eServices portal, and finally the most beneficial are the donor programs to support Macedonia, especially those by USAID, UNDP and EAR.
This growing tendency shows that now (2007) the Republic of Macedonia has already successfully realized the stage of establishing the infrastructure, and now is realizing the stage of establishing services. We can only comment that now (2007) EU states are in the stage of increasing the usage by establishing more content and interoperable functions. The comparison shows that the stage that Macedonia reaches in 2007 is comparable to the stage that most EU countries have reached in 2001/2002.

Towards Harmonization of the Legal Framework of North Macedonia with the EU Digital Services Act

This text is a translation of part of the analysis “Towards a Feasible Implementation of the Digital Services Act in the Western Balkans” and presents the results of the research conducted during March and April 2024, with the aim of assessing the readiness of the public and civil sectors in North Macedonia for the adoption […]

MONITORING OF ONLINE NEWS PORTALS COVERAGE OF 2024 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS NORTH MACEDONIA

This report provides an analysis of articles concerning the parliamentary elections in North Macedonia, published by thirty pre-selected online news portals (hereinafter referred to as ONPs) between April 15 and May 10, 2024. Among these portals, twenty-two publish content in the Macedonian language, while eight in Albanian. The monitoring included ONPs identified in the list […]

Stability Under Threat – FIMI in North Macedonia

Being a point of interest for the world’s superpowers, and a country where the best thriving element is corruption, in the past decade North Macedonia has faced significant challenges related to Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI). Although some of the main compounds are domestic, meaning poor media professionalism and political turmoil, the lack of […]