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Description
Today is a New Day (DJND) are committed to promoting active participation, developing civil society and dialogue on public affairs, protecting and expanding the public good, recognizing the unsustainability of capitalist processes and speaking in favor of the need to transform the socio-political system for the benefit of society and nature. With the innovative use of web technologies, critical thinking, and good message design they create projects for various stakeholders – citizens, journalists, NGOs, politicians. The needs that the organization addresses come from the current political situation and in generally in the need to cultivate critical thought.
They regularly cooperate with the public, Slovenian and foreign NGOs, civil society organizations and the media. The Institute has the status of a NGO operating in the public interest in the field of the development of the information society. Thus, apart from them, the civil society and before mentioned organizations will benefit from this grant.
The expected result of this gran is, that in the next three years they will increase the monitoring of the work of decision-makers and increase public involvement in decision-making processes by developing online tools and educating NGOs and the media. They will equip the public with the knowledge, understanding and tools needed to identify false and misleading information and media manipulation online.
They want to create a stimulating working environment for their co-workers and recruit new volunteers. By establishing a system of long-term financial planning, they want to ensure stable financial conditions for institutional functioning and the projects that do not depend on calls for proposals.
Summary of project results
As part of organizational support, we focused on implementing the organizational strategy, which addresses the challenges of mistrust in the work of democratic institutions and politicians. Mistrust in politicians has traditionally been high in Slovenia, and it represents an important part of the crisis of democracy, fueled by disappointment with politics. An important aspect of mistrust in democracy is also the lack of accountability among public officials when making political promises, as well as the lack of effective mechanisms for monitoring decision-makers. In our work, we will also address the rise of disinformation, fake news, and media manipulation techniques on the internet, which have a strong impact on the current socio-political climate. Our specific knowledge and experience will continue to be used to support and amplify the work of other related organizations.
As part of implementing the strategy, we will: Increase oversight of decision-makers'' work through the development of online tools and the education of NGOs and the media; enhance public involvement in decision-making processes; empower the public with knowledge, understanding, and tools necessary to identify false and misleading information, as well as media manipulation online; create an organized, relaxed, and encouraging work environment for staff and recruit new volunteers; establish a system for long-term financial planning and ensure stable financial conditions for institutional operations and our own projects that are not funded through calls for proposals; improve communication of our impact and strengthen the presence of DJND in the media.
We have trained over 40 NGOs and more than 25 journalists to use our tools for monitoring the work of decision-makers, increasing transparency, involving stakeholders in democratic processes, or any other DJND tools that improve the state of democracy. Through our tools, 98,237 individuals were involved in the processes of democratic decision-making and oversight of decision-makers'' work. 39 municipalities used our tools to increase transparency and/or citizen involvement in democratic processes. We have informed and empowered the public to identify false and misleading information, as well as media manipulation online, through media appearances (addressing 20 false claims).