Share Foundation - Stakeholders

The Share Foundation is an international NGO based in Belgrade (Serbia) focusing its activities on Internet and digital media as fundamental elements for achieving democratic change in society, as a tool for improvement of government accountability and transparency, and socioeconomic empowerment of citizens.

SHARE Defense is part of the Share Foundation and its goal is to fight for the public interest concerning digital rights within the fields of privacy, free speech, government transparency and efficiency, surveillance and human rights. SHARE Defense staff includes lawyers, analysts, journalists and technicians with an expertise in the protection of digital rights.

Measuring media realities. Media Clientelism Index 2016 - Reports

Clientelism, politicization and corruption hold media captured and prevent them from carrying out their watchdog role. Media Clientelism Index assesses the situation in 6 countries of South East Europe

Defamation and Insult Laws in the OSCE Region: A Comparative Study - Reports

This study examines the existence and the subsequent implementation of criminal defamation and insult laws in the territory of the 57 participating States of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)

Training course: European Journalism in the Digital Age - Opportunities

The Center for Media, Data and Society at the Central European University (Budapest) and SHARE Foundation (Novi Sad) invite applications for a “hybrid-style” training covering the challenges for watchdog journalism in the digital age

Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights' report on freedom of expression and media freedom in Turkey - Reports

Council of Europe Commissioner raises concerns about the serious deterioration of media freedom and freedom of expression for journalists, media outlets, academics and the Turkish society as a whole, especially after the attempted coup of July 15, 2016

Ranking Digital Rights - Corporate Accountability Index - Indexes

Ranking Digital Rights (RDR) produces a Corporate Accountability Index that ranks the world’s largest ICT companies’ public commitments to users’ freedom of expression and privacy rights

Fighting for recognition: Online abuse of women bloggers in Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States - Academic Sources

This study argues that democratic potential of social media in democracies remains haphazard because online abuse is not fully recognized as entangling online and offline communication, constituted and constructed through technological, legal, social, and cultural factors. It is based on interviews with 109 bloggers who write about feminisms, family, and/or maternity politics. According to the findings 73.4% had negative experiences due to blogging and/or social media use

The Right to Information Is a Human Right, Strasbourg Rules - Legal Resources

Hungarian authorities erred when they refused to provide a human rights NGO access to information – an essential part of freedom of expression – about the employment of pro deo lawyers

Conference: Promoting dialogue between the European Court of Human Rights and the media freedom community - Opportunities

Registration will close on February 10 for the conference “Promoting dialogue between the ECtHR and the media freedom community”, to be held in Strasbourg on 24 of March 2017

Developing Internet Universality indicators - a UNESCO project - Opportunities

UNESCO’s project and online consultation to define Internet Universality indicators aims to build a framework of indicators through which to assess levels of achievement, in individual countries and internationally, of the four fundamental principles included in the Internet Universality concept