“Strengthening transparency in the justice system in Kosovo” is the topic that is being discussed by about 30 officials for information from the prosecutorial and judicial system in Kosovo.
This workshop is being organized by the Center for Innovations and Development (CFID), where the participants are the information officers from the Prosecution Council of Kosovo, from all basic prosecutions, as well as the Judicial Council of Kosovo and the courts in the country.
In the first session of this workshop, communication with the media and the public in the digital age is being discussed.
The project manager, Fadil Miftari, said that they are aiming to improve and increase the transparency of the justice system in relation to the media and the public.
“The main objective of the workshop or its main goal is to open a kind of debate within this activity and see how transparency in the justice system of Kosovo can be improved and strengthened. Our project provides support and promotes transparency in all public institutions, but this activity is focused or personalized only for these two mechanisms, the justice system, the prosecutorial system and the judicial system. In fact, as you can see here, there is a considerable number, mainly officials, who lead and work in the information office”, he declared.
In the sessions of this workshop, Fadil Miftari added that they aim to discuss whether these two mechanisms of justice are ready to approach the public in the digital age.
“Both of these mechanisms have not started any initiative to use digital forms of promotion or increasing transparency towards the public. They each communicate, each has their own websites, but it is still in the stage of traditional communication. However, as we know today, we have a wide range of new forms of communication that are faster and create much closer contact directly with the public, without someone in between… Here it was observed that they have not yet taken any substantial steps to communicate directly with the public”, said Miftari.
The workshop, which is being held in Durrës, will continue the sessions the next day, where the management of inter-institutional communication with the public in crisis situations will be discussed.
This workshop with the theme “Strengthening transparency in the justice system in Kosovo”, is being held by the Center for Innovations and Development (CFID) in cooperation with the Kosovo Law Institute (KLI) and is financed by the United Nations Mission in Kosovo – UNMIK. /Sh. Pajaziti
