Publications

Politics and Standards

Open Public Data as a Policy-making Tool

Open Public Data: Concept and Application Every day, public institutions collect and produce large amounts of data such as financial, geographical and statistical data, data on economic trends, the legal system and public services, company registers, demographic and cadastre data, and many other... More...

Politics and Standards

Media policies in Western Balkans: between the normative requirements and local specificities

"Transplantation" of the model is something characteristic for the normative approach in media reforms, and places the focus on the adoption of Western standards and principles of functioning of independent, professional media institutions, and also on the form of such institutional solutions... More...

Experience and Practice

Saša Madacki: The question of data archives in our country is still at the bottom of the list of priorities

During 2012 and 2013, Saša Madacki was part of the SERSCIDA project, which aimed to examine the potentials and to support the creation of national / regional research data archives in the field of social sciences in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). Therefore, we took the opportunity to talk to Mr... More...

Experience and Practice

Brian Kleiner: Each country should have the infrastructure needed to manage and preserve data produced within its borders

Interview conducted by Selma Korlat, March 2017. The Swiss Foundation for Research in Social Sciences FORS is a national centre of expertise in the social sciences and serves researchers in Switzerland and abroad . FORS aims to promote a research culture of data sharing and secondary analysis for... More...