Macedonia: Privacy Developments in 2008
Report by Metamorphosis Foundation for EDRI

Even though the Constitution of the Republic of Macedonia and the Law on
Personal Data Protection (LPDP), the Criminal Code, Law on Organization and
Operation of State Administrative Bodies and other laws recognize and protect
the rights of privacy, data protection and secrecy of communications, the
implementation of these protections has met with major difficulties during 2008.

“Inclusive eGovernment is about using digital technologies to provide public services which improve people’s lives, encourage participation in the local community, strengthen democracy and help those at risk of exclusion from society.” – European Commission
Regional Inclusive eGovernment Roadmap is a product of the Western Balkans Network for Inclusive eGovernment Project, supported by the East East: Partnership Beyond Borders Program of the Open Society Institute, and led by the Metamorphosis Foundation. The project activities included information gathering, analysis and networking, through the activities of project partners, the Third International Conference e-Society.Mk (29-30 November 2007 in Skopje) and six workshops in the country capitals (23 November – 20 December 2007) which facilitated exchange of know-how and experiences between stakeholders from the region and from the European Union.

Report on Macedonia included in the Privacy and Human Rights 2007: An International Survey of Privacy Laws and Developments, published by EPIC and Privacy International.

Edited by Katitza Rodriguez Pereda.

Contributors: Bardhyl Jashari, Filip Stojanovski, Neda Korunovska, Dance Danilovska, Marijana Marushic, Elena Stojanovska, Vesna Paunkovska

This document is published by JISC  

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Report by

Prof. Dr Marjan Gusev, M.Sc. Goce Armenski
University Sts Cyril and Methodius, PMF Informatics

This study was supported by Metamorphosis – Foundation for Information Society
Skopje, April 2006.

 In order to analyze the current situation of eGovernment in Western Balkan Countries (WBC) the authors used eGovernment benchmarks, analyses of National Information Society (IS) Strategies and performed a study on implementation level of eGovernment.

EU methodology developed by Capgemini to measure online sophistication of basic public online services and percentage of fully available online services was used to evaluate four WBC (Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina), comparing their progress in the area of eGovernment services with the EU countries. The authors also analyzed the respective National IS Strategies, especially those parts which cover realization of eGovernment concepts. This study analyzes the action plans level of implementation and also presents several issues given by Stability Pact eSEE initiative.

By analyzing current situation the authors identify real essential problems and provide guidelines for better implementation of eGovernment services in WBC.

This document shows the most important results of the analysis of the Macedonian domains as of January 1st, 2006, based on publicly available data gathered from the site of MARNet, Macedonian domain registrar.
The analysis demonstrates a clear trend of increase of number of secondary and tertiary level domains within the .MK domain space, with the business domains as leading type. It also shows correlation of the domain increse in comparison with significant ICT policy events, and points out to the issue of ownership of .MK domains, as well as abberations of the policy for domain name creation.

Available in English, Macedonian and Albanian. 

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Within the framework of the e-Local Government Project, organized and supported by the USAID's project Make Decentralization Work and Metamorphosis – foundation for sustainable ICT solutions, a research was conducted in 10 municipalities in Macedonia. The objective of this research was to find out the opinions of the citizens on which municipal services should be first made available electronically.

The results of the research are available as a Catalogue of Local Government Electronic Services.

Seven bigger and three smaller municipalities were chosen: Karposh, Gostivar, Debar, Kavadarci, Prilep, Veles, Strumica, Chucher Sandevo, Zrnovci, and Krivogashtani.

A total of 850 persons were surveyed. According to gender of the respondents, there were 395 males (46.5%) and 455 females (53.5%).

The field research was conducted by the BRIMA-Gallup Agency from Skopje, from 19th until 24th of May, 2005.