FTX – Feminist tech exchange and the Launch of Macedonian Platform for Mapping of Violence
Dejan Georgievski
11/12/2020 - 06:34
Civil Rights, EngageMind, Freedom of expression, Freedom of information, Gender, Headnews, ICT, Internet, News, Women's rights, Rotator, Take Back the Tech!, Internet prava, Macedonia

The Macedonian version of the mapirajnasilje.net platform for mapping of violence against women was launched on December 6, 2020 in Veles, under the auspices of the regional "Take Back the Tech" campaign, part of the global 16 Days of Activism Campaign.

“Like” yourself to jail: New Laws to restrict online speech
Dejan Georgievski
29/10/2020 - 06:52
Freedom of expression, Freedom of information, Governance, Headnews, Internet, Internet Governance (IG), Internet rights and openness, Opinion and analyses, Rotator, Internet prava

The 8th Meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) was held on October 22-25, 2013, in Bali, Indonesia. Aida Mahmutović, who together with Valentina Pellizzer represented the Foundation OneWorld Platform for Southeast Europe in IGF2013, collected several important conclusions related to the...

Necessary and Proportionate – Principles in Decisions on Communications Survellance
Dejan Georgievski
31/07/2020 - 18:40
Civil Rights, Civil society, Communications, Digital newsroom, EngageMind, Headnews, ICT, Internet, Law, News, Rotator, Internet prava

The Foundation OneWorld Platform for Southeast Europe signed the International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance, prepared to deal with the changing digital environment and the...

Macedonian Media Community Rejects the Proposed Law on Media
Dejan Georgievski
23/04/2020 - 18:29
Civil Rights, EngageMind, Freedom of expression, Headnews, Internet rights and openness, Law, Media, News, Rotator, Internet prava, Macedonia

The media community in Macedonia concluded, at the debate held on April 22, 2013, at the Holiday Inn Hotel in Skopje, organized by the Media Development Centre, that the contents and the manner of preparation of the draft Law on Media proposed by the Government of Macedonia were utterly unacceptable.

Online Human Rights Library Opened in Belgrade
Dejan Georgievski
18/03/2020 - 21:30
Digital newsroom, E-democracy, EngageMind, Headnews, Human rights, Internet, Knowledge, Multimedia and resources, News, Rotator, Internet prava, Serbia

The Online Human Rights Library with close to 7,000 books on the subject of human rights was presented and officially opened on March 15, 2013, at the House of Human Rights and Democracy in Belgrade. On the URL www.hrlibrary.rs, the visitors can browse the available books on theory and practice of human rights....

GISWatch 2012 – Internet and Corruption
Dejan Georgievski
18/03/2020 - 06:20
Civil society, Corruption and Transparency, EngageMind, Headnews, Internet, Internet rights and openness, Opinion and analyses, Rotator, Internet prava

The daily chronicle of the small region (of Western Balkans) is one of corruption and bribery, states the 2012 GISWatch Report “2012 – The Internet and Corruption”, released at the end of 2012.

Safer Internet Day 2013 - Connect with Respect
Dejan Georgievski
06/02/2020 - 23:27
Children, Headnews, ICT, Internet, Internet rights and openness, Security, Weekly report, Rotator, Internet prava, Privacy and surveillance

The Ministry of Security of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Safer Internet Day Committee in BiH (SID Committee), in cooperation with Insafe Network, marked the Safer Internet Day yesterday, February 5, with a lecture for the student of the Middle Dentistry School in Sarajevo.

Anonymous Hacked the Website of Croatian Government
Dejan Georgievski
04/01/2021 - 13:29
Activism, Corruption and Transparency, Democracy, Digital newsroom, EngageMind, Governance, Headnews, ICT, Internet, Internet rights and openness, News, Rotator, Internet prava, Privacy and surveillance, Croatia

The Anonymous hacker group attacked the website of the Croatian Government, on January 2, 2021 and left the message “Enough Stealing” on its homepage. The media in Croatia assume that the attack was a response of the group to the entry into force of the new Criminal Code which prescribes, among other changes, tougher sanctions for unauthorized access to computers and data....