Openness Index of the LSGUs 2021

The Metamorphosis Foundation for Internet and Society, within the USAID Civic Engagement Project, assessed the state of good governance in the local self-government units in the Republic of North Macedonia for 2021. The assessment is the result of a survey based on the Openness Index.

The openness of LSGUs is assessed through four main principles: transparency, awareness, accessibility and integrity. The domain that connects all four principles is open data.

The entire report is available at the following link.

Recommendations For Joint Action For Building Societal Resilience Towards Malign Influences Of Disinformation

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Visualization: Can we recognize digital addiction?

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Disinformation trends Western Balkans

This report is based on a continuous monitoring process of domestic media in North Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo, Serbia, Montenegro, and BosniaHerzegovina conducted within the framework of the regional project Western Balkans Anti-Disinformation Hub: Exposing Malign Influences through Watchdog Journalism. It presents an overview of disinformation trends and narratives, their distribution between countries, and their sources […]