Fourteenth conference e-Society.mk: Media literate citizens for accountable institutions

For the fourteenth time in a row, Metamorphosis Foundation for Internet and Society is organizing the international conference e-Society.mk. The conference will take place on 11 December 2018 at Holiday Inn hotel in Skopje, and will address the topic of “Media literate citizens for accountable institutions”.

In five separate sessions, more than twenty representatives of institutions, media organizations and the civil sector will participate in discussions with the aim to contribute to the defining of the priorities in the fields of freedom of expression, media literacy, transparency and accountability.

The fact that Metamorphosis is organizing this international conference for the fourteenth time in a row demonstrates the prevailing need of such forum where all relevant stakeholders debate, therefore contribute toward the overall process of development of democratic processes in Macedonia.

All interested parties can take part in the conference by filling the registration form available at the Registration page not later than Thursday, 6 December 2018, 16:00. The draft agenda is below.

Official languages at the conference will be Macedonian, Albanian and English. Simultaneous interpretation will be provided between all of them.

Hashtag: #esocietymk

The Metamorphosis team is at your service for any additional information. You can reach us via e-mail (contact@e-society.org.mk) or by dialing 02/3109 325.

Agenda

10:00-10:45
10:45–11:00		 Registration and coffee
Statements for media
11:00-11:30 Session 1: Grand opening

  • Mr. Damjan Manchevski, Minister of Information Society and Administration of the Republic of Macedonia;
  • Mr. Samuel Žbogar, Ambassador of the European Union to the Republic of Macedonia;
  • Ms. Fani Karanfilova Panovska, Executive Director of Foundation Open Society – Macedonia;
  • Mr. Robert Popovski, Minister in charge of communications, accountability and transparency in the Government of the R. Macedonia;

Moderator: Mr. Bardhyl Jashari, Director, Metamorphosis Foundation
11:30-12:30 Session 2: Freedom of expression and media – where are we at?

  • Mr. Zoran Andonovski, Meta.mk and Metamorphosis Foundation;
  • Mr. Zoran Trajchevski, Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media Services
  • Mr. Dragan Sekulovski, Association of Journalists of Macedonia
  • Mr. Dejan Georgievski, Media Development Center

Moderator: Ms. Violeta Gligoroska, Metamorphosis Foundation.
12:30-12:45 Break
12:45-13:45 Session 3: Tackling manipulations and disinformation with media literacy

  • Mr. Filip Stojanovski, Metamorphosis Foundation;
  • Ms. Marina Dimitrieva-Gjorgjievska, Bureau for Development of Education
  • Mr. Bojan Shashevski, Youth Educational Forum, Radio MOF;
  • Ms. Vesna Nikodinovska, Macedonian Institute for Media;

Moderator: Mr. Goran Lazarov, Eurothink – Center for European Strategies
13:45-14:00 Break
14:00-15:00 Session 4: How to monitor communications responsibly and accountably?

  • Mr. Kilian Vieth, Stiftung Neue Verantwortung, Berlin
  • Mr. Aleksandar Nikolov, Association Zenith;
  • Mr. Trpe Stojanovski, Faculty of Security
  • Mr. Gjorgji Lazarevski, Expert
  • Representative of the Ministry of Interior/Operational Technical Agency (TBC)

Moderator: Ms. Elena Trifunovska, Metamorphosis Foundation
15:00-16:00 Session 5: Greater citizens’ trust in institutions through transparency

  • Ms. Danira Karovic, Why not? – Sarajevo, ACTION SEE partner;
  • Ms. Blerina Ramaj, Open Data Kosovo, ACTION SEE partner;
  • Mr. Sasho Pockov, Mayor of Gevgelija;
  • Mr. German Filkov, Center for Civil Communications;
  • Mr. Sashe Dimovski, Presentation of a policy paper on the reform of the public administration, judiciary and fight against corruption;

Moderator: Ms. Liljana Pecova-Ilieska, Metamorphosis Foundation
16:00-17:00 Lunch

The conference e-Society.mk is organized by Metamorphosis, Foundation for Internet and Society in synergy with the projects “The Critical Thinking for Mediawise Citizens – CriThink” (crithink.mk) and “Accountability, Technology and Institutional Openness Network in SEE” (ACTION SEE – actionsee.org) funded by the European Union, the projects “Media Reforms Observatory” (mediaobservatorium.mk) and “Vistinomer.mk” (vistinomer.mk) supported by the Foundation Open Society – Macedonia as well as the project “Promoting, Shaping and Upholding Internet Freedoms” supported by the Association for Progressive Communications (apc.org) and the project “Developing Methodology for Citizen Monitoring of Surveillance Services in Macedonia” through IFEX (ifex.org).