After a year of operation, we have revamped the New Day (Nov dan) platform and transformed it into a news aggregator that allows you to read all new posts from participating independent content creators in one place. The project involves Oštro, Boris Vezjak, Domen Savič and the Mešanec portal, and we plan to invite more authors. Bookmark Nov dan and expand your media consumption, and support the creators through our donation system.

This interactive online story, which is aimed at young people, was developed in collaboration with the Peace Institute as part of the Carmia project. Users are confronted with various life situations in a playful way and can collect points for successfully overcoming them. The Peace Institute provided the content for the game, while we developed and visualised it. See for yourself how well you can solve everyday dilemmas by checking out the link.

This is a mini-game developed in collaboration with Oštro as part of their research project Lov na stanovanja (Apartment Hunting). The game provides users with important insights into the housing market situation in an accessible and fun way. We developed the game specifically for use on smartphones, while Oštro was responsible for the content and design. Visit the link and roll the dice yourself.

As part of the international project Regional Openness Index, coordinated by the regional network of non-governmental organisations, Action SEE, we analysed the transparency of the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia. The analysis compared four factors: Transparency, accessibility, integrity of MPs and efficiency of the National Assembly. Once again, the National Assembly proved to be the second most open in the region. While this is encouraging, there is still room for improvement. In the previous period (2020), the biggest problem was the integrity of MPs. This time, efficiency received the lowest rating.

Open Books for Municipalities is a free application designed to enhance residents' trust in municipal operations through seamless proactive financial transparency. Simply input the data, and the application efficiently organizes and presents it in a user-friendly, easily understandable format. This empowers municipalities to significantly improve budget transparency without requiring programming expertise and with minimal time investment.

DISCO is a new regional event that fosters critical thought, champions digital rights, and fuels social activism. The first DISCO conference, subtitled Civil Society Reimagining Technological Progress, will focus on the transformative power of active and engaged civil society. From inspiring legal battles and activist campaigns to engineering breakthroughs, we will explore alternative ways to think about the idea of technological progress. Guided by a constellation of captivating voices, we intend to reshape the discourse and redefine the narrative, propelling our region to the vanguard of the global digital sovereignty movement.

The mobile application is an educational and entertaining tool for formal and informal education that aims to promote the development of critical thinking and media literacy among young people. Its interactive thematic modules, consisting of videos, textual explanations, images and questions for users, are designed to cover different areas of critical thinking and media literacy. Our partners at Zašto ne provided the concept and the content for the app and we developed it at Danes je nov dan.

With the support of co-signing organisations, we called on the Ministry of Digital Transformation of the Republic of Slovenia, other relevant ministries, the Government of the Republic of Slovenia and the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia to take an active role in protecting the rights of marginalised people, foreigners, migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and other persons with irregular migrant status. We informed the officials that we expect them to ensure respect for and protection of human rights.

Asset detector is an online application we developed for Oštro as part of their research project. With the help of the application, the public can gain access to the assets of politicians, high-ranking officials and their families. Since the available data on the assets of Slovenian officials is unclear, the application relies on the methods of investigative and data journalism. The Oštro team first took on the assets of ministers.

Between 10–12 May, 2023, we hosted a training on organising and leading citizens assemblies in Kranjska Gora. The training was organised in collaboration with lecturers from the Polish organization "Center for Blue Democracy." Citizens assemblies are becoming increasingly widespread and recognized internationally as a way to involve the public in local government activities. Such forums need to be well-designed, and conducted with trust, ease, and joy. Participants at the workshop learned about the process of organizing citizen forums according to the principles of "design thinking."

Open books is an open-source application designed for NGOs who strive for greater financial transparency. Using an intuitive and user-friendly interface, NGOs can enter their data and upload files, which the tool then organises and presents in a clear and concise manner. The application generates graphs and tables, calculates ratios (such as highest vs. lowest salary, or the amount of state funds received versus the amount paid in taxes), and lists details about current projects. Public trust is a crucial currency for NGOs, so it is worth making an effort to ensure it. We’ve done the effort as we developed this free tool, and now it is up to the NGOs to make use of it.

This is a collection of texts produced in cooperation with the European Network of Political Foundations (ENOP) and the Assembly of European Regions (AER) and with the support of the EU. It discusses ways to solve problems facing modern societies: from climate change to gender inequality, with the help of citizens' assemblies. A comprehensive overview of good practices concludes with concrete recommendations for the implementation of new models of democratic deliberation.

This is a free handbook that was developed as part of the project "My Municipality: A Transparent and Open Local Government", supported by the ACF Program in Slovenia. The handbook is intended for local authorities and officials who aim to create better conditions for active public involvement in decision-making at the local level. It is divided into three chapters, namely Transparency, Accessibility, and Participation. Each chapter is further divided into subchapters that explore legal frameworks, potential solutions, guidelines, specific recommendations, and numerous examples of both domestic and international best practices. The handbook is freely available online and can serve as both an initial step and a practical tool for opening municipalities to their residents.

The Lendava Parlameter is a collaboration with the local media outlet Lendavainfo and represents the third installment of our versatile data disclosure tool for municipalities. Parlameter assists users in monitoring various aspects of the municipal council's operations by collecting, analyzing, structuring, and visualizing data in a user-friendly manner. Residents now have easy access to information about the presence of council members at sessions, the number of questions they have asked, how they voted, and the amount of words they have spoken during sessions. It is also possible to analyze the functioning of individual municipal clubs, for example, in terms of their internal (dis)unity. As Parlameter users are already accustomed to, all information is presented in the form of cards that can be easily shared or embedded on their websites.

At Danes je nov dan, we have been promoting the introduction of participatory budgeting and the local level for a long time, so we used the occasion of local elections to campaign for it. Before the elections, we contacted all the mayoral candidates, inquiring about their position regarding participatory budgeting. We organized all the acquired information on a website, where voters could check which candidates committed to introducing participatory budgeting in their municipality in case of victory.

Kvizle (Quizzle) is an interactive online quiz that in the weeks leading up to the November “referendum trio” confronted users with 5 new questions every day. With Quizzle, users were able to check their knowledge of the situation at the public Radiotelevizija Slovenija (RTV). The latter, which was already in poor condition, was completely demolished by intense politicization. Every day we witnessed popular shows being cancelled, journalists threatened, and unprofessional, yet politically “appropriate” personnel being hired by the just as “appropriate” management. That is why, with the help of our friends, we decided to remind the voters in a fun way about the bizarre incidents and absurd decisions that marked the year 2022 on RTV. Quizle was similar to the hit game Wordle as it encouraged players to play daily – because they were unable to immediately check whether they got their answer right and had to come back the next day in order to continue their streak and to be able to brag about it on social networks

As friends of the referendum campaign FOR a professional and independent public television we created a website where we gathered relevant information, answered frequently asked questions, and encouraged people to vote. The campaign, which was organized by the organizations Association of Journalists of Slovenia (DNS), Peace Institute (Mirovni inštitut), Legal Information Center for Human Rights and Environment (PIC), and Institute for Cultural Diversity Open, was successful – over 41% of eligible voters participated in the referendum, and more than 62% of them voted in favor the law amendment.

We developed the interactive online game Stop Your Government with partners Inicijativa mladih za ljudska prava - Hrvatska, Crna kuća and Gong. The game aims to inspire young people to stand for what they believe is right and become active in civil society and non-governmental organizations. In the game, the player can choose one of three different scenarios (worker’s rights, reproductive rights, the environment) and try their hand at organizing protests, media campaigns and referendums. During the game, they are forced to make decisions, which in turn make the campaign succeed or fail, and are helped by random encounters and events along the way. Stop Your Government provides authentic insight into activist reality, victories and defeats included, and we hope that it encourages many young people to become active members of civil society.

In the time leading up to parliamentary and presidential elections as well as before the “referendum trio” in 2022, we mostly focused on encouraging voter turnout and participation. Among other activities, we yet again took to adjusting the good old tool Cefizelj (named after a streetsmart albeit rather naughty literary character), an interactive guide for helping voters participate in elections. Those who are unable to vote on the announced date or cannot do so at their home polling station, still have the right to vote, and to be able to exercise it effectively, Cefizelj was there – and is always here – to help with all the answers to how, when and where.

OMNIA polling stations are organized across the country in order to enable voters to take part in elections even if they find themselves outside the district of their residence on election day. We prepared a simple interactive map of OMNIA polling stations for both 2022 parliamentary and presidential elections. As voters need to announce their intention to vote at an OMNIA polling station beforehand, we also included instructions to do so and a countdown timer until the announcement deadline.

We have always encouraged people to participate in elections by providing them with various digital tools that make it easier to take part and perform their civic duty. For the April 2022 parliamentary elections as well as for October and November 2022 presidential elections, we, among other things, prepared a simple interactive map that showed early polling stations. Every one of them can be found on the map and more information is revealed upon clicking on it. The map is simple to use as well as easy to share with others and it makes early voting – as well as informing others about it – a breeze.

In the municipality of Hrastnik, we completed the second installation of the municipal version of Parlameter. Unlike the City of Ljubljana, the Hrastnik municipality actively participated in the process, making the data disclosure process even easier. Parlameter assists users in monitoring various aspects of the municipal council's operations by collecting, analyzing, structuring, and visualizing data in a user-friendly manner. Residents now have easy access to information about the presence of council members at sessions, the number of questions they have asked, how they voted, and the amount of words they have spoken during sessions. It is also possible to analyze the functioning of individual municipal clubs, for example, in terms of their internal (dis)unity. As Parlameter users are already accustomed to, all information is presented in the form of cards that can be easily shared or embedded on their websites.

Kvizle (Quizzle) is an interactive online quiz that in the weeks leading up to parliamentary elections of 2022 confronted users with 5 new questions every day. With Quizzle, users were able to check their knowledge of the previous mandate and thus get motivated to vote. The 2020–22 mandate was marked by so many scandals that the constant revelation of new ones sank them into oblivion before they had any kind of political consequences. That is why, with the help of our friends, we decided to remind the voters in a fun way about the many abuses and wrongdoings of the outgoing government and help them make a responsible electoral decision. Quizle was similar to the hit game Wordle as it encouraged players to play daily – because they were unable to immediately check whether they got their answer right and had to come back the next day in order to continue their streak and to be able to brag about it on social networks.

We wanted to fight the pre-electoral ideological cancer that is: "They are all the same anyway." Instead of focusing on empty political soundbites we wanted to focus the conversation during the election campaign on content. To achieve these goals we created Vote-o-matic (Volitvomat) as part of the initiative Vox populi (Glas ljudstva). You can use it to check how well your political views align with the views of the parties running for (re)election. Answer some questions and Vote-o-matic will show you which parties you align with, which you disagree with and what the details of those disagreements are.

One possible solution to the current housing crisis comes in the form of housing cooperatives. They encourage democratic decision-making and are community-oriented. In Slovenia, there are several initiatives attempting to establish housing cooperatives, however, they are facing administrative and legal obstacles. The Institute for Studies of Housing and Space drafted a proposal of legislative changes, which would help establish a successful practice of housing cooperatives in Slovenia – as many other countries have already done. We are gathering support through an interactive petition, where each signature submitted represents a new brick in the construction of a symbolic virtual community.

New Day is an experimental platform for the collection and equitable distribution of micro-donations among (currently) five independent media projects: Oštro, Boris Vezjak - In media res, Mešanec, Domen Savič - Državljan D and Agrument. The platform is based on a new open standard for online monetisation, which represents a possible alternative to the current business models of advertising and data sales. New Day is supported by the Grant for the Web Foundation and is currently in a pilot phase. There are plans for other media projects to participate in the platform in the future, but ultimately the new web standard should also work without them.

The Ljubljana City Parlameter is the first municipal version of the Parlameter tool, which was initially created to monitor the work in the National Assembly. Parlameter assists users in monitoring various aspects of the municipal council's operations by collecting, analyzing, structuring, and visualizing data in a user-friendly manner. Residents now have easy access to information about the presence of council members at sessions, the number of questions they have asked, how they voted, and the amount of words they have spoken during sessions. It is also possible to analyze the functioning of individual municipal clubs, for example, in terms of their internal (dis)unity. As Parlameter users are already accustomed to, all information is presented in the form of cards that can be easily shared or embedded on their websites.

After critically engaging with concepts of two fundamental disciplines, philosophy and theoretical psychoanalysis, as well as with the idea of freedom of speech, the new book in Agrument series tackles an engaged political movement, namely intersectional feminism. As befits the fourth book in the series, its conceptual framework is grounded in the fourth wave feminism, which goes beyond binary interpretations of identity, gender and sexuality. Instead, intersectional feminism addresses social and political identities as building blocks of discrimination and privilege. The Feminist abecedarium, which was published online for 25 consecutive Saturdays, has now been arranged into a book that you can order from our web store or download for free.

We have prepared the report of the national conference FOR participatory budgeting, which took place in September 2021. The report serves as a handbook for municipalities implementing or wishing to implement participatory budgeting. On more than thirty pages, it contains useful guidelines, examples of good practice and concrete data that come in handy when implementing this democratic way of co-decision-making regarding the use of public funds.

We are one of many civil society and non-governmental organizations that are behind the Voice of the People initiative. The initiative aims to articulate 100 public demands for the political parties that intend to run in the upcoming parliamentary elections to take a stance on. The voice of the people comes as a response to the low trust that people have in politics, to its emptiness in terms of content and the vulgar assertion of particular rather than public interests by many politicians. Because we deserve better.

When the Minister of the Environment and Spatial Planning, Vizjak, was confronted with recordings of his inappropriate statements about the stupidity of paying taxes from the time he was Minister of the Economy, he responded by saying that the one who is without sin should first cast a stone at him. We dived deep inside our souls, we pondered thoroughly and made our confessions – and despite our best efforts we simply couldn’t find ourselves guilty of any similar machinations. Therefore, in order to help knock down the minister’s chair, we organized a massive online metaphorical stoning of his political persona. Since then, almost 50,000 stones have been cast.

Openness Index is a result of an international survey, coordinated by the regional network of non-governmental organizations Action SEE. Within the project we analyzed the transparency of the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia, which, through a comprehensive comparison of five different factors (transparency, accessibility, integrity of deputies, efficiency of the National Assembly, open data), came out as second most open in the region. Although this result looks encouraging, there is still a lot of room for improvement – as far as the integrity of MPs is concerned, for example, we are in a disastrous penultimate place in the region.

In cooperation with the Organization for a Participatory Society and PIC - Legal-Informational Centre for NGOs, we prepared a survey on the transparency of Slovenian municipalities. We presented the results on a dedicated website, where people can easily check how their municipality fared and compare it with other municipalities with a similar population or budget. Generally speaking, the results are worrying and there is so much room for improvement that all mayors can immediately get their hands dirty.

In cooperation with the Institute for Studies of Housing and Space, we published a website that informs the future, current or past tenants about their rights. Information is presented in the form of answers to the most common questions. If they can't find the answer to their dilemma, users can also pose new questions. We also collect testimonies about tenants’ experience on the website and these reflect the catastrophic state of affairs and lack of any control over the rental market. The aim of the project is to fight against exploitation, capriciousness and unjust profits of landlords. We firmly believe that decent housing should be accessible to all.

We analysed all 99 editions of Odmevi (Echoes), the evening news show on national TV, that were broadcast between March 12 and August 4 2020. We wanted to see if the show was sexist – and the answer to that question, at least as far as the 99 analysed editions are concerned, was a resounding yes. There were many more male guests than female (both in the studio and online), and an even larger gap was observed in the percentage of men and women featured in lead stories. Additionally, we checked whether there were “female” and “male” topics as well as whether female and male hosts interrupt their guests equally.

As part of the campaign AGAINST the harmful legislative changes brought on by the new Water Act, we prepared an updated map of OMNIA polling stations for all those who wanted to vote outside their place of residence on the day of the referendum. The guide is presented in the form of an interactive map that makes it easy to locate the nearest OMNIA polling station and forward one’s intention to vote elsewhere to the National Electoral Commission. Because just about every drop in the ocean counts towards a winning goal!

In partnership with Oštro, Center za preiskovalno novinarstvo v jadranski regiji, we created the first web platform to track the status of political promises in Slovenia. Politicians prefer making promises to keeping them and, if there is nobody around to call them accountable, all the promises, albeit promising, turn out to be completely empty. Our platform keeps track of a selection of political promises from the coalition agreement, analysing the activities behind them and informing the public on their progress. Because we believe in the idea of political accountability!

We dedicated all available resources to campaigning against the new Water Act, which introduced environmentally unacceptable provision, and was challenged by the civil society at a referendum. Since the referendum was called in the middle of summer when many people are away for holidays, we prepared an interactive guide based on our open source Cefizelj tool. The simple web application listed all the ways people could vote if they were away on the day of the referendum or the polling station was not accessible to them.

As more and more international media outlets had been calling into question Slovenian diplomacy, media freedom, autonomy of public institutions and civil and human rights under the government of Janez Janša, we, in cooperation with Marko Plahuta, decided to review the foreign media perspective on the state of democracy in our country. Ever since the current government took office in 2020, we have observed a marked increase in the number of foreign media who express concern that Slovenia is transforming into an autocracy. Although government representatives keep ensuring the public that our country’s international reputation has not been tarnished, this detailed visualisation of a large number of foreign media takes proves otherwise.

Cool initiatives is an online platform that offers select NGOs a turnkey solution for crowdfunding of their projects. The platform offers an online infrastructure for fundraising, whereas our expert team provides NGOs with assistance in designing and implementing communication strategies. Cool initiatives is a project, aimed in particular at smaller, local and younger NGOs, which do not have many other opportunities to obtain funding. The Cool initiatives project is co-financed by the Ministry of Public Administration programme for the development and professionalisation of NGOs and volunteering in 2019.

Together with our partners (Pod črto, @ObjaveIzKleti, Marko Plahuta), we spent the second half of 2020 analysing 24 fake Twitter profiles that published divisive or hostile content and were regularly mentioned or retweeted by Slovenian right-wing politicians. The publication of results in February of 2021 was met with great media and public interest, as well as attempts of defamation by other Twitter users, some of them authentic and some probably fake. We presented unequivocal evidence that these were indeed fake profiles, as well as graphs showing various aspects of their activities. We also took steps to report cases of identity theft to Twitter.

End of January 2021 was marked by the sudden government blockade of the announcement of the call for enrollment in public university programs. As thousands of prospective students found themselves in an uncertain position, we joined the campaign, organized by Visokošolski sindikat Slovenije (Higher Education Union of Slovenia) that brought together all public universities, many scientific institutes and unions as well as student organizations. We set up a website with a petition and collected more than 14,000 signatures in a short time. The campaign, together with other public efforts, was successful and resulted in the publication of the enrollment call in early February.

We established the network with partner organizations to help individuals who have found themselves in illegal, unconstitutional and democratic proceedings due to them being active citizens. The aim of the network is to balance out the financial and legal resources that are available to the state and those available to civilians. On the network’s website we publish legal advice, answer questions and work to protect fundamental freedoms with the help of the law.

After two titles that dealt with specific humanistic disciplines – philosophy and theoretical psychoanalysis – the third book in the Agrument series focuses on only one concept, namely freedom of speech. Freedom of speech has been championed by both liberal and conservative thought at various historical moments. It is an idea that can combat censorship, support whistleblowing, celebrate open data and open knowledge, as well as justify hate speech, spark fear and promote populism. The Freedom of Speech Abecedarium, which was published online for 25 consecutive Saturdays, is now arranged into a book that you can order from our online store or download for free.

The second book in the Agrument series brings a systematic overview of the conceptual apparatus of Freudian psychoanalysis. This theoretical field represents the basis for the world famous Lacanian Ljubljana psychoanalytic school. Thematic arguments were published online on 25 consecutive Saturdays, whereas in the book they are arranged in alphabetical order and accompanied by an introductory word by the authors as well as by an editorial preface. You can order the book from our online store or download the digital version for free online.

The end of 2020 saw the first timid attempts to overthrow the third government of Janez Janša. To help people understand the possibilities we published a website, dedicated to simple political mathematics. As the race for 46 MP votes began, with it came the bargaining and hypothesizing both inside and outside of parliament – and we provided some bittersweet educational entertainment for the interested public.

Janez Janša, the Prime Minister of Slovenia, uses Twitter daily to directly address citizens, communicate important government decisions and share new measures taken in regards to the covid-19 epidemic. But he also uses this social network for pursuing personal arguments, discrediting his opponents, promoting "alternative facts" and inciting hostility. The Marshal Twito tracker is designed to monitor and record his use of Twitter, inform the public of his usage and draw the attention of decision-makers to the controversial aspects of the Prime Minister's public communication.

The project is a continuation of our 2018 campaign in which we were persuading candidates for mayors to commit to introducing participatory budgeting in local municipalities should they be elected. Of the 275 candidates, who had publicly committed to introducing participatory budgeting in their municipalities in the event of election, 56 were elected. Two years later we checked how many of them kept their promise. It turned out that only half of those, who promised to do so, have in fact introduced this instrument of direct democratic decision-making. This, we decided it was time to remind them of their commitment once again.

The update to the online game Žicar, which we created on the occasion of the 3rd anniversary of the wire on our southern border, comes five years after the government of Miro Cerar started laying it. The governments of Marjan Šarec and Janez Janša continued with hostile policies toward refugees and made it even more difficult for them to cross the border. Such inhumane measures do not in any way reduce the number of refugees, rather, they contribute to a higher number of victims. Slovenian refugee policy makes us all culprits in their deaths. As long as the wire is standing, we all have blood on our hands!

This campaign, developed in partnership with CNVOS, was conceived as a response to the Ministry of Culture’s hostile move toward the residents of Metelkova 6. The Ministry’s announcement that these non-governmental and civil society organizations would be evicted, illustrates Minister Simoniti’s desire to discipline culture and the arts. His views may be problematic, but they are in perfect harmony with the government’s belligerent policy towards the autonomous parts of society. Helping the minister to permanently rub out the disturbing elements from society, we brought this dark vision to its bitter end.

Although, in the aftermath of the spring epidemic, the government spent a lot of time reassuring the public that as a society we would be better prepared for a possible second wave of covid-19, it is now obvious that rather than developing a strategy and capacity building, just like the virus, they also spent the summer dormant. In collaboration with Kje bomo pa jutri spali?, we analyzed the housing policy, identifying the most embarrassing coronavirus fails and proposing better responses to the pressing issues. Now they can’t say that nothing can be done!

As the government is taking advantage of the current crisis, degrading our environmental policies and dismantling the NGO sector, we teamed up with Greenpeace Slovenia and published a campaign pursuing green response to the health crisis caused by COVID-19. In it, we presented a vision of an Environment Minister, who would actually care for the environment. We named this fictional minister Andrej Vision, a pun on current minister Andrej Vizjak’s name. Andrej Vision would build railways rather than roads, would advocate for health rather than for exploitation of nature, and would invest in solar energy rather than in fossil fuels.

In media res is a podcast with Boris Vezjak, focused on analyzing political and media discourses. Every week, Tadej and Boris discuss selected topics for about half an hour, scrutinizing particular comments and media responses, exposing rhetorical fallacies and media spins, propaganda tactics, and critically reflecting on public discourse. The podcast is available on all major podcasting apps, on YouTube, as well as on the In media res blog.

The project addressed the pervasive threat of fascism in our society and the hypocrisy that encircles it. Although its definition, characteristics, its methods and approaches are thoroughly studied, politicians and the media are still reluctant to call fascism out. Thus, we made a website, which uses the form and aesthetics of the well-known “for dummies” series to present the main features of fascism (such as cult of personality, propaganda, (ab)use of media and cultural war), illustrating them with examples that were too easily found in the ploys of our government.

As part of a broad civil society and non-governmental coalition, we published a petition against the third anti-coronavirus law. The law, under the pretext of helping the economy, removed non-governmental organizations as stakeholders in formal proceedings, enabled investors to build without a valid building permit and subordinated relevant public institutions to politics. Although the petition received a huge response, with more than 36,000 people signing it, its demands were ignored.

As the whole world was on hold because of the new coronavirus, we focused our digital efforts on building community. We took the crisis as an opportunity to strengthen solidarity and we stepped up to help facilitate a discussion about it – or about anything else, for that matter. We built an old-fashioned internet forum and invited people to join the conversation, exchange views and sourdough starters, to learn, share memes and reviews of pandemic-themed movies as well as organize online gaming nights. With the end of the coronacrisis, we left Quarantinia and ventured back into the physical world.

As proud members of the broad non-governmental and civil society coalition No fear we supported the 2020 protests against two political parties (SMC and DeSUS) that decided to form a coalition with the far-right SDS after the Prime Minister Šarec resigned. We created a web campaign that exposed their hypocrisy, listing past statements of these parties' MPs about SDS, their authoritarian tendencies, and their inability to function democratically. The website also served as an info point for the Rally against the Coalition of Hate, inviting people to contact DeSUS and SMC MPs and remind them of their past promises about who they would never align with politically.

As the Slovenian Parliament debated the Housing Bill, we launched a campaign to highlight the current housing crisis in the country. Working with two initiatives, Kje bomo pa jutri spali? and Ljudje, we emphasized the difficulties people have in finding housing, such as: rents are growing at a stronger pace than wages, students are faced with unregulated, extortionate rents or forced to pay tourist tax, the housing stock is limited, there is a shortage of non-profit housing, homelessness is on the rise, etc. Our goal was to frame the discussion around solidarity and the universal right to housing.

We created a website to support the initiative Mladi za podnebno pravičnost (Youth for Climate Justice), who organized local protests during the Global Climate Strike. On the website, we published their proposed measures to address climate change and gathered various information on climate protests and The Climate Justice Movement, with focus on its Slovenian chapter. The website itself showcased our distinctive – simple, yet efficient – design and versed implementation of contemporary web standards.

In 2018, we commemorated the third anniversary since Miro Cerar's government had installed razor wire on the border with Croatia. We created a non-game that put the player in the role of a refuge and confronted them with a series of obstacles, dangers and frustrations. No matter how well they did, avoiding bombs, authorities and sharks, a razor wire was waiting for them on the Schengen border with fortress Europe. With this campaign we drew attention to the unfortunate fact that the wire at the border was still there, demanding from the new government to remove it.

We created an interactive website where we visualised and contextualized data from a research project prepared by the Institute for Housing and Spatial Studies in cooperation with University of Ljubljana (Faculty of Social Studies) and the Institute for Spatial Policies. To find out how many of the apartments that are listed on the most popular online real estate portal can one buy or rent, they just needed to enter the amount of their monthly income. The research project got extensive media coverage and our website had 45 000 visitors.

Just in time for the local elections in 2018, we launched a campaign to obtain commitment to implementation of participatory budgeting from the mayoral candidates in the event of their election. We published the commitments that we received on a dedicated website that included precise definition and comprehensive explanation of participatory budgeting. After the election, we updated the website so that the public can now monitor whether promises have been kept and exert pressure on those mayors, who need constant reminders to keep theirs.

In October 2018 we organised two youth workshops as part of Meet & Code programme. The second was intended for high school and university students, with whom we built sensors for measuring air quality. We built a chip that measures the number of dust particles in the air (PM2.5 and PM10), as well as temperature and humidity. We installed some of the sensors across Slovenia and you can see their location visualized on a dedicated website.

In October 2018 we organized two youth workshops as part of Meet & Code programme. The first was intended for elementary school students, whom we helped understand the basics of (digital) encryption. Together, we examined the key concepts and then carried out simple experiments, in which we attempted to decode encrypted messages. We used everyday examples to explain the importance of encryption and demonstrated to the participants that internet safety is of paramount importance.

This was a campaign against the normalisation of hate in the form of widespread corporate advertising in the media that inflame intolerance. We redesigned certain ads by companies that ignored their responsibility to the public, and violated ethical standards as well as good taste by advertising in highly manipulative media. We redesigned their ads in a manner that they started directly communicating what they had only implicitly supported before. The campaign was hugely successful: while receiving less than friendly PR messages from the companies in question, we saw the Prime Minister urge them to think about where they choose to advertise.

Philosophical abecedarium is our first book edition. It is a collection of brief reflections on 25 concepts, each representing one letter of the Slovenian alphabet. These were published online for 25 consecutive Saturdays as part of the Thematic agrument project. It is no coincidence that we started the series with the most fundamental of the disciplines that teaches us to think and encourages us to wonder, transforming us into autonomous subjects in the process. You are invited to support us by ordering the book. The digital version is available online for free.

This was a petition requesting the dismissal of Damir Črnčec from the position of Secretary of State. It was signed by more than 4,300 people. The petition drew attention to xenophobia, intolerance and hatred that he publicly expressed on social networks. The promise of showing the red card to hate speech was one of the things that had enabled Marjan Šarec, then Prime Minister, to seize power in the first place. However, by placing such a controversial figure in his cabinet, his promises were quickly exposed as false. To demonstrate that his appointment legitimized hatred, we added a selection of Črnčec's worst tweets to the petition, photoshopping Šarec's likes under them.

In an ideal Slovenia, the ministers would get their jobs by responding to the ads on this website. In actual Slovenia, such ads, written by a broad civil society and NGO coalition, can only be satire. This campaign challenged the established ways of political recruiting. Neglecting competences is just one side of the story; equally problematic is the trend of adopting legislation through abbreviated procedures, which effectively prevents any kind of public debate, excluding civil society and NGOs from the legislative process.

As EU set out to adopt a copyright reform in 2018, we joined the international campaign to fight it. Whereas the reform itself was necessary, some of the proposed changes were very problematic, endagering the idea of free and autonomous Internet. We demanded the abolition of Article 11, which jeopardized the right to link, and Article 13, which allowed for censorship even in the fair use of copyrighted works. We demanded Articles 3 and 4, which deal with permitted exceptions to data mining and education, to be rewritten. Sadly, despite the joint efforts of a broad pan-European civil society coalition, the EU Parliament still passed the reform.

This is a translation and an upgrade of the open source project politiscales, which helped voters to choose from many parties that took part in 2018 parliamentary elections. TV confrontations as well as party programs focus mainly on generalized and hollow promises. Thus, we delivered a 117 question survey with statements placed along 8 value axes to all competing parties. The majority of them responded and our users were able to compare their views with party responses. We wanted to give voters the opportunity to make their decisions based on content and were awarded with huge response: more than 30,000 people visited the website.

We responded to the invitation of the Ljubljana Society for the protection of animals to join the campaign against raising laying hens in battery cages. We set up a petition, which was signed by thousands of people and succeeded in several providers pledging to stop selling eggs obtained in this manner. In support of the campaign, we created a retro web game kura.si. In it, the player is placed in the role of a laying hen and sentenced to suffering in a small cage. The game attracted a lot of media coverage. It was also translated and published in Latvia as part of a similar effort.

In 2018, after some high-profile data privacy scandals, we translated the open source website Sign up for Facebook and published it on our own domain. The website was designed to help users decide whether to open an account on Facebook or not. It guides them through information about how their data is collected, stored and used by Facebook and other stakeholders. Our goal was to demonstrate to users that they should take responsibility for their decisions regarding personal data and to be aware of any potential consequences of these decisions.

We published a petition by Ambasada Rog requesting of the Ministry of Interior Affairs to stop the deportation process of Mr. Ahmad Shami, a Syrian refugee living in Slovenia. When it comes to returning asylum seekers to Croatia, our bureaucratic apparatus invokes and meticulously follows the Dublin Regulation. At the same time, it completely ignores its discretionary clause, which could be used to help individuals like Mr. Shami, who has volunteered with organizations that deal with different social issues and participated in projects, funded by the Slovenian Ministry of Culture. Rather than "rewarding" his exemplary integration with at least a residence permit, the state rejected his asylum application.

Like every year, politics was on hiatus during the summer of 2017. That is, until the incident on a ferry to remote Croatian island Vis, where two Slovenian MPs, Violeta Tomić and Branko Grims, bumped into each other. The casual encounter of the two political opponents was followed by the publication of unbecoming photos of Tomić on the ferry. Her response on social media hinted at Grims' potential involvement, which he denied. The situation presented us with a great opportunity to test the SCAN investigative method that we were working on for Media scanner project with EBSI. The results were pretty telling.

This petition was conceived in the context of Greenpeace's Break Free coalition of NGOs and civil society organizations that joined forces against fossil fuels. We appealed to the government to ensure responsible transition from fossil fuels to sustainable green energy, to promote self-sufficiency, and to establish infrastructure for the electrification of transport with renewables. The petition, which gathered thousands of signatures, was designed as a dynamic, user-friendly online experience, which included a bot that informed users on the importance of green energy and provided answers to frequently asked questions.

It is everyone's responsibility to try, within the limits of their power, to prevent blatant violations of human rights, doubly so if their function is based on symbolic integrity. Our outrage upon the adoption of the unconstitutional Aliens Act resulted in an appeal to the President of the Republic of Slovenia Borut Pahor not to promulgate it. This way, he would indeed risk dismissal in the Parliament, but would gain much in terms of human integrity and symbolic authority. The President's Office rejected such an act of rebellion as impossible, but this judgment was only valid within the assumption that Pahor should remain in function no matter what.

As the clearly unconstitutional Aliens Act was promulgated, we petitioned the Ombudswoman, asking her to submit the act to the Constitutional Court for judicial review. Although by definition bound by the promotion of human rights beyond pragmatic, economic or ideological interests, her office examined the act for a long time. That was particularly unusual as numerous lawyers, media and institutions had listed violations of international law, implemented in the Aliens Act, and there was also international controversy about it. In the end she did the right thing, and the Constitutional Court indeed found the Aliens Act unconstitutional.

This campaign was an overview of the finest malversations, transgressions and other "successes" of Slovenian student organising in the past 2 decades. With it, we helped to prevent the parliamentary Committee on Education, Science, Sport and Youth to reject the Amending act to the Law on the student community.The proposed amendments addressed the most problematic ambiguities that had allowed student functionaries to act mostly in their own personal interest. The Slovenian student union (ŠOU) was to be defined as a public entity and as such subjected to stricter legislation. ŠOU management did everything in their power to have the Amending act rejected, but were unsuccessful in their attempts.

We responded to one of Mladina's open calls (Proglas) for visual social commentary. We did so by critically parodying one of the pillars of Slovenian advertising, as well as the state of being Slovenian itself. We entered into a dialogue with the campaign "Slovenia, My Country", which was created in the 1980s by Studio Marketing Delo. We wanted to demonstrate that has since become an enclosed and hostile country to outsiders. Members of the jury, Tomato Košir, Matevž Medja and Robert Botteri, chose our work to be published in Mladina.

For this project we teamed up with students and their mentors from University of Ljubljana. We helped them present and promote the results of a workshop on possible futures of Slovenian public spaces. They took materials from Google Street View and transformed them in both utopian and dystopian visions of the future, and we edited and presented the campaign online. The audience is faced with a simple decision: do I want the current trends to continue and completely take over the landscape or will I do something to help secure a friendlier, inclusive and nature-friendly way of managing the commons.

Alternation was a web campaign that took tweets from political parties and individual politicians and replaced words denoting refugees, migrants etc., with the word Jew. With the visual design we wanted to make absolutely clear that anti-migrant political propaganda is only one word away from full-on fascist propaganda. This culture of fear fuels biased views, talking about the migrant crisis in economical rather than humanitarian terms, helping people to look away as the authorities stamp human rights for the sake of the capital. Our campaign was very successful and went viral; on Facebook alone it was shared 1620 times.

As a commercial TV station "roasted" president Pahor, he used that opportunity to effectively launch his new election campaign. We decided to turn the attention away from the adorable TV mischief and instead analyze his political mistakes. As the presidential figure is very important to the people, it also should be exposed to serious critique. So, we took Pahor from the benign TV roast and put him in an internet oven that left him significantly more scorched. Nearly 2000 people shared the campaign on social media.

This map was yet another tutorial that encouraged participation in the voting that should not have happened, the infamous referendum on gay marriage equality. We created an interactive map of universal "OMNIA" polling stations, showing anyone, who was away from home on the day of the referendum, where and how to vote. To this data we also added information about polling stations' accessibility to people with reduced mobility.

On the occasion of White Cane Safety Day we urged Slovenian media to make their websites more accessible to the blind. We performed some accessibility tests and the majority of our most visited digital media sites fared awkwardly bad. This is unforgivable as implementation of web accessibility standards is neither very complicated nor particularly expensive. But as there are "only" about 10 000 blind people, the media can apparently afford to systematically exclude them from their audiene. There are simply no excuses for sloppy code, intrusive ads, and ignorance.

Which one is vandalism: cycling through the old town or lack of cycling infrastructure maintenance? The project Is it vandalism? was a reaction to official City of Ljubljana campaign against vandalism. The latter defined vandalism as interventions in the environment and/or its uses that reduce its commercial value. Such definition is in the interest of authorities and capital, rather than the people who should be allowed to define vandalism in their own local environments. In this campaign, we used Instagram to paint a contrasting picture of how people vs. the local government see vandalism.

The project explains three different aspects of inequality: wealth inequality, income inequality, and inequality in Slovenia. Key terms and data are presented in an interactive and understandable manner, which encourages the visitor to click through pressing economical headaches and their implications. The web experience ends with listing of some possible solutions. The project was supported by Inštitut za delavske študije and Open Society Foundation and publicly presented at an event, organized to promote the translation of Piketty's Capital in Slovene language.

In the wake of the moral panic triggered by a malicious digital insect named Heartbleed, we responded with a request to local web service providers to immediately identify and eliminate the security threat. While Heartbleed compromised private information, the media mostly mistakenly urged users to change their passwords, while the responsibility for individuals' online security was solely in the hands of service providers. We held them publicly responsible, while also measuring their response time.

Et tu, Borute was an online reminder for future electoral assessment of any potential new candidature of the Slovenian president Borut Pahor. The tool was created after the inauguration of the new Anti Corruption Commission and its president, which in one stroke devalued this highly entrusted supervisory authority. It was a tool for clogging the holes in political memory, a web reminder for a variety of engaged uses, and a Golden Diggit laureate in 2014.

Agrument is a daily intervention in the domestic media space in approximately 1000 characters that we have been publishing since 2014. In it, we draw attention to the hidden sides of big stories, highlight small but significant incidents, monitor independent media, and the political backstage. Such stories often have the most radical impact on everyday life, on the commons, and the environment. Information and interpretations are thoroughly checked. We investigate the small print, highlight the footnotes, decrypt brackets, functions and other socio-political mathematics.

Nov ŠOU was a web campaign Nov ŠOU, which supported the proposed statutory changes of Student's Organisation of University of Ljubljana. The proposed changes were in the direction of its definition as an institution under public law and associated greater scrutiny over its operation. In spite of record turnout (almost 6000) and clearly expressed democratic will of the students (94 % voted for the proposed changes), the referendum still failed because 20 % quorum was not reached.

We offered a web presence to a petition to preserve club K4 as a space for progressive and independent cultural production, and for Zavod K6/4 to remain a non-profit and open urban platform for contemporary art. The petition was aimed at several players: ŠOU Ljubljana, new management of Zavod K6/4, as well as the media and anti-corruption institutions. We gathered 2,465 signatures in a short period of time, and helped K4 remain significantly more committed to urban culture as originally planned. #K4FOREVA!