Balkan Investigative Reporting Network
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SHARE Foundation is a nonprofit organisation founded in 2012, with the goal to stand for the public interest in the spheres of digital rights, privacy, free speech, government transparency and efficiency, surveillance and human rights.
SHARE Foundation is dedicated to protecting the rights of citizens and promoting positive values of openness, decentralisation, and exchange of knowledge, information, and technology.
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Organisation Serbia on the Move was founded in 2009 with the mission of empowering, motivating and encouraging individuals to be proactive in creating a higher quality of life in Serbia.
Its mission is to build a strong and responsible civil society by motivating individuals to take an active part in creating changes that will improve their lives.
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House for Human Rights and Democracy is an organisation committed to building a democratic and open society based on the respect of human rights and the rule of law. It is committed to building a democratic and open society based on the respect of human rights and the rule of law.
Human Rights and Democracy House educate citizens about human rights and how to exercise these rights, advocating specific statutory provisions and their implementation in the field of human rights and democratization, and monitors the work of state institutions in these areas.
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Law Scanner is a non-governmental organisation based in Serbia.
The main goal of the Law Scanner is to protect patients from medical errors, doctors’ mistakes and to increase the responsibility of doctors in carrying out their activities. The Law Scanner also protects the social rights of citizens. Social care system includes economic, political, legal measures and activities to prevent possible individual and group social problems. Every citizen has social rights despite age, gender, ethnicity or religious affiliation.
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Transparency Serbia is non- partisan, non-governmental and non-for profit voluntary organisation established with the aim of curbing corruption in Serbia.
The organisation is a part of the network of Transparency International and, at the same time, a local non-government organisation, registered in accordance with regulations of the Republic of Serbia. Transparency Serbia’s main goal is to increase transparency in the work of the state as a way to prevent abuse of public authority for private purposes.
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CRTA is a group of activists and journalists that engages with both citizens and institutions in an effort for higher institutional and public officials’ accountability in Serbia through monitoring and oversight of their work.
Since 2009 CRTA empowers citizens to participate in political process and demand accountability from their representatives. Aiming to establish accountability as core democratic value in Serbian political culture, CRTA advocacy efforts rely on the three-pronged approach: a) accountability in the work of politicians, b) institutional accountability, and c) accountability in public finances. CRTA provided citizens with opportunity to directly engage in accountability advocacy and monitoring by having developed several accountability and transparency online tools: Istinomer, Otvoreni parlament, Prati pare and Vodite računa. Through these initiatives CRTA increased its influence among the Serbian public and positioned itself as credible actor in raising demand for accountability in politicians’ and public institutions’ work.
By advocating for accountability to take roots and become a guiding principle in Serbian democracy, CRTA initiated informed public debate about accountability among both politicians and citizens.
Web: http://crta.rs/en/
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TAG Media is a full-service agency focused on providing video production and digital marketing services.
As part of IT TV Production, in 2011 a digital marketing and Web development department was established, which provides complete support for the online presence of companies of all types.
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BIRODI is a think-thank non-governmental organisation active in the field of social and political sciences, conducting applied research, analysing, proposing and implementing viable solutions within the political life and civil sector.
BIRODI’s’s mission is to put research into the function of democratisation and to increase the impact of stakeholders in the creation of societal development.
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CINS is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation committed to investigative journalism according to the internationally recognized standards, including the use of new tools and techniques.
Center for Investigative Journalism of Serbia was founded by the Independent Journalists’ Association of Serbia with the aim to show that independent journalism in line with the highest professional standards is possible in Serbia. CINS investigates organised crime, politics, business, frauds, energy, environment, corruption, judiciary, sports and other important parts of society.
BIRN Serbia, together with The Independent Journalists’ Association of Serbia (IJAS) and the Slavko Curuvija Foundation organised a debate on October 20 about models and transparency of state media financing.
The debate was moderated by BIRN Serbia’s Editor Slobodan Georgiev and hosted Slavisa Lekic, IJAS’s president, Nedim Sejdinovic from the Independent Journalists’ Association of Vojvodina, Milorad Tadic from the Association of Independent Electronic Media, Dalila Ljubicic from the Media Association and Milos Stojkovic, a legal consultant.
The panellists spoke about the importance of the better regulation of project-based co-funding in the media sector and offered proposals for a new media strategy.
Media content that is created in the public interest needs to be better defined in the new media strategy, they agreed.
They also said that it is important to improve work of the expert commissions for allocating funds by defining the term ‘media expert’.
Talking about the regulatory body for electronic media, the panellists pointed out that it is necessary to minimise or completely eliminate the influence of the executive and legislative authority when members of the regulatory body for electronic media’s council is being elected.
The debate was organized as part of a Public Money for the Public Interest project that BIRN Serbia is implementing with the Independent Journalists’ Association of Serbia and the Slavko Curuvija Foundation.
