Mission ePossible: Community Cooperation in Government
Although the annoucement has still not been translated to English, Serbian ministry of telecommunication and informational society has nevertheless published the news about Mission ePossible, a project to collect and publish opinions of progressive community members. As far as I am aware, this is the first step towards integrating the community into government (it’s still nowhere near as serious as it sounds, but I’m trying to be positive about it).
Land of the Gray
(Photo: ell brown)
There’s a joke that is going around for quite some time now in Serbia. “Who needs hooligans when you have elderly citizens?” If you’ve seen Polanksy’s Tenant, you get the idea. Recently, I’ve been subject of a complaint filed by one of our neighbors. It was something about water dripping down from one of the drainage holes on our balcony (yes, drainage, something that is supposed to, well… drain liquid, right?) down to neighbor’s balcony’s extension he built for himself.
The New Resistance: Aftermath of the Serbian Revolution
On 5 October 2000, almost twelve years ago, Serbia has won its freedom. Its people have ousted Slobodan Milošević, and ended an almost ten-year-long rule of the Serbian Socialist Party (SPS). And then what? For the next twelve years, have the Serbs seen any improvement?
