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2010-07-21T06:51:00.000-07:00

Praise for ApplyOnLine, Macedonian e-Government Application

2008-03-24T06:27:00.000-07:00

The electronic application for employment in the Macedonian state administration ApplyOnLine has been selected as Editor’s Choice of ePractice.eu portal. This is the 38th application that received this prestigious award, out of the 810 that were submitted. This is the first award for an e-Government case study from a country which is not an EU member-state.

"In cooperation with USAID’s eGov project and the software company NextSense, we managed to implement an electronic system which is free and intended for the citizens of the Republic of Macedonia, offering a simpler and more efficient manner of employment in the civil services," stated Aleksandar Ugrinoski, State Advisor on information technologies in the Civil Servants Agency.

In May and June 2007, Metamorphosis Foundation conducted a survey of candidates for civil servant jobs who used the application, confirming its high value.

Creative Commons: 11 Shakespeare e-books in Macedonian Published

2008-03-21T03:57:00.000-07:00

Creative Commons Content Portal for Macedonia published Macedonian translations of eleven Shakespeare plays as downloadable e-books, made available by the renowned storyteller and translator Dragi Mihajlovski.

The e-books have been published in weekly batches of two to three PDF-files between the 8th of February and the 20th of March 20, 2008. The following plays have been published under the Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Macedonia license:

The portal is managed by Metamorphosis Foundation, and it continues to provide space for e-publishing of works by contemporary Macedonian authors, as well as possibility for all who use the Creative Commons licenses elsewhere on the internet to add links to their content published elsewhere on the internet.

Official promotion of Macedonian version of Creative Commons licenses

2007-06-17T06:10:00.000-07:00

Macedonia will join worldwide movement for free culture with promotion of the localized Macedonian version of the Creative Commons licenses.

Official launching ceremony of Macedonian version of the licenses will be organized in Holliday Inn Hotel in Skopje on June 19, 2007. Special guest at the event is Mr. Joichi Ito chairman of the board of Creative Commons and the chairman of Six Apart Japan. He is on the board of ICANN, the Mozilla Foundation, Technorati, and iCommons.

Macedonia: Citizens Have the Right to Choose

2007-01-18T00:09:00.000-08:00

Considering that the computer literacy trainings for the general population announced by the Government of Republic of Macedonia are in general a positive move for development of information society, the Metamorphosis Foundation and the NGO Free Software Macedonia encourage the Government to provide right to choose for the citizens, by offering trainings for use of free and open source software (FOSS) also.

Timeline of Macedonian Blogosphere

2007-01-11T02:03:00.000-08:00

The interactive Timeline of Macedonian Blogosphere depicts the most significant events and developments about Macedonia-related blogs.

Available in Macedonian and English languages.

Top 100 Education Blogs | OEDb

2007-01-11T02:01:00.000-08:00

The Online Education Database team compiled a list of Top 100 Education Blogs. Fair enough, they note that:

...this is by no means an exhaustive list of all of the great education blogs out there. Chances are you may have favorites that are not included here. Also note that this list is not ranked but rather is ordered alphabetically within each topic.

The list provides a great starting point to this important area.