Point 9.0 3
Author: Alisa Karović
This year’s POINT conference program has been announced
Over a two-day period, the new edition of the POINT conference, entitled “Coming home”, will address many aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic to help us all reflect on the past period and to open the space for regional and POINT participants to reexamine this period in various ways and therefore tackle topics that have changed … Continued
Apply to be a speaker at POINT 9.0 Conference
We are inviting everyone who works in the intersection of activism, political accountability and new technologies in Southeast Europe (SEE), to submit a proposal for a short (up to 15 min) presentation about their work in the field. If you are an activist developing a project related to the use of new technologies in fields … Continued
POINT 9.0 – Apply for a Travel and Accommodation Fellowship
After we skipped the annual conference in 2020 and had an online edition during 2021, the POINT conference is coming home in an offline form. The conference will be held on 11th and 12th November this year, in Dom mladih Sarajevo. POINT Conference (Political Accountability and New Technologies) is the largest conference of this type … Continued
POINT Conference is coming home in November
After we skipped the annual conference in 2020 and had an online edition during 2021, POINT conference is coming back home in an offline form. The conference will be held on 11th and 12th November this year, in Dom mladih Sarajevo. POINT Conference (Political Accountability and New Technologies) is the largest conference of this type … Continued
Agon Maliqi: Despite the pandemic, Kosovo had the record turnout in the last elections
Agon Maliqi is a policy analyst, activist, and media writer based in Prishtina, Kosovo. He is the creator and co-founder of Sbunker, an Albanian language current affairs and ideas blog giving voice to a younger generation of scholars, writers, and activists from the Western Balkans. With Agon, we talked about recent parliamentary elections in Kosovo, … Continued
Building like there is no tomorrow: (Un)sustainable energy in the Balkans and beyond
Countries like Bosnia and Herzegovina do not prioritize ecology as one of the most important means of survival. Our rivers are dried for the sake of hydropower, our air is polluted, the soil is demolished. Building “dirty” energy facilities is still used as a promise of progress and new jobs, while ignoring the effect they … Continued
Faik Ispahiu: The last elections brought changes to Kosovo’s political scene
In another Point Talks, we talked to Faik Ispahiu, founder of Kallxo.com, an online platform for reporting corruption, fraud, conflict of interest, and other related cases of misuse of official position, negligence, including cases on hampering the Kosovo citizens’ rights. We talked with Faik about the recent elections in Kosovo, political changes, Kallxo projects and … Continued
Sandra Benčić: Parliamentary elections in Croatia
One of the most interesting elections during the pandemic in the SEE region were the parliamentary elections in Croatia. Not so much because of the effect of the pandemic, since it was pretty much similar compared to other countries, but because of the changes in the political scene that happened there. These changes are mostly … Continued
Socio-economic policies and good governance on a local level
We talked with Timur Abaspahić, a researcher at the Center for Policy and Governance (CPG). The Center for Policy and Governance is a think tank established in 2009 in Sarajevo to support sustainable development processes in Bosnia and Herzegovina by creating and advocating progressive economic and social development policies, European integration and public administration reform. … Continued
POINT Talks Report: A Decade After the Arab Spring
In December 2010, civil protests erupted in Tunisia which would soon spread across much of the Middle East and Northern Africa in a movement which would come to be known as the Arab Spring. The world witnessed the downfall of the Mubarak regime in Egypt as well as the al-Ghaddafi regime in Libya as a … Continued
Media in BiH local elections amid the pandemic
Elections are always a very challenging time for the media and journalists, even more when the election process is happening in very tense political areas such as Bosnia and Herzegovina. The challenges grew bigger during the pandemic. So, the media in BiH were faced with a totally new situation when it comes to reporting on … Continued
Fact-checking community: Where we are and what tomorrow brings?
In the past year, fact checkers have been on the forefront of the fight against the Covid-19 infodemic, often pushing themselves beyond the limit to mount a response to dangerous health disinformation that is still putting people in danger worldwide. But, while working tirelessly to respond to this unprecedented disinformation/health crisis, the fact-checking community is … Continued
Youth activism and elections in BiH during the pandemic – ASuBiH
The pandemic has impacted every part of our society, especially secondary school students. Most of their education now takes place online, and as first-time voters, they had their first elections also in pandemic conditions. Association of secondary school students in BiH is trying to work with their peers as much as the pandemic allows them. … Continued