Rationale of the panel is quite straightforward. Namely, it refers to not too much talks about the Balkans and how citizens of Balkan states should have similar opportunities as Croatia, which joined the EU as a result of highly political decision without meeting all the formal criteria to join. The panel has provided the 6th … Continued
David Solomon from Thinking Cities has opened up the discussion by following up on the previously quoted piece of statistics where statistically only 9% of citizens are active in their cities. That, in turn has led to the discussion on both, the language and meaning of active citizen and citizenship and the need for deconstructing … Continued
Matt together with his colleagues has decided to create a Civic Tech Field Guide, a living database that gathers 1,500 existing projects, and organisations worldwide that work within the theme of civic tech. As he justified, “it helps to have a map if you want to know where you are going”. Photos by: Vanja Čerimagić Matt … Continued
The chair of the session, Darko Brkan has kicked off the discussion by indicating that the upcoming panel was a continuation of the previous debate on disinformation but set in Balkans context. Photos by: Vanja Čerimagić Reflecting the global trend, as he noted, Balkans was not new to the theme of fake news, but recently it … Continued
The session Stories from the SEE region has, quite self-explanatory, included practices from around the region that are worth discussing. Photos by: Vanja Čerimagić Firstly, Slaven Raskovic has introduced an example from Croatia called the Mosaic of connections which enables research journalist, researchers, activists to explore the connections of politically exposed persons that exists in database. … Continued
The discussion was started with introduction of the todays speakers Damir Damjanovic from CA WHy Not, Xhensila Gjura from Lex Ferenga, Žiga Vrtačić from Parlametar, Melisa Skender from GONG, and Shqipe Krasniqi from Assembly of Kosovo and moderator for the session was Aida Ajanovic from CA Why Not. Photos by: Vanja Čerimagić When talking about these … Continued
Ana Benačić from GONG welcomed Jeremy Druker from Transitions and Aliaume Leroy from Belling Cat who talked about journalism in the world of digital communication, and how to get quality and credible stories into digital world. Photos by: Vanja Čerimagić Jeremy Druker presented three projects that are supposed to bring back trust in media reporting. Media … Continued
The discussion about disinformation in the news and its influence on both political and social aspects of different societies started by Dr Emir Suljagic, who was moderator of this panel, by introducing the speakers: Lucas Graves from University of Wisconsin- Madison and Miriam Lexmann from International Republican Institute (IRI). Photos by: Vanja Čerimagić Lucas stated that … Continued
Ania Ankowska moderated the panel on the future of technology, legislation need in IT industry, and vulnerabilities for everyday internet users. Experts on that topic were Rysiek Rashiq from OCCRP and Filip Dobranovic from Today is new day. Photos by: Vanja Čerimagić At the beginning of the session Rysiek talked about regulations. He said that those … Continued
The first panel discussion of Point Conference which has put in to perspective over Institutional Openness and how to properly do regional benchmarking. As a speakers at opening panel of conference there were Aida Ajanovic from CA Why not, Pavle Dimitrijevic from CRTA, Vullent Kabashi as as IT Director from Parliament of Kosovo, Blerina Ramaj from Open … Continued
We danced our way into the beginning of POINT 7.0 conference. Because the POINT conference is all about us, together we welcomed three random people from the audience to do whatever they want. Naturally, they choose to dance. Photos by: Vanja Čerimagić After this very unusual opening Darko Brkan invited Milena Gvozdenović from Center for Democratic … Continued
Raskrikavanje is a Serbian website aimed at combating media disinformation and debunking inaccurate information presented as facts. This initiative was launched in the late 2017 by KRIK, which has been investigating crime and corruption for several years now. The idea for combating fake news was developed together with colleagues from the Bosnian version of fact … Continued
About media literacy and fact – checking in the Italy and world we talked with Gabriela Jacomella, a journalist who worked close to ten years at Corriere della Sera (with a break for a fellowship at the Reuters Institute in Oxford) before quitting her job and moving to South Sudan in order to train local journalists. … Continued
Geza Tessenyi is the initiator and chief political designer of the Public Opinion Platform and founding Director and President of The Intercivil Society of London. The Public Opinion Platform (POP) is a new kind of political institution for real-time democracy and can also be applied as a governing method. POP is designed to gradually build up … Continued