Activities

BlueLink Virtual Newsroom - independent journalists investigating issues of public interest in fields such as nature protection, human rights, women and gender rights, corruption, good governance, failures of environmental law enforcement and public participation, in partnership with Climate News Network, UK. BlueLink publishes Evromegdan.bg - the e-magazine for journalism in public interest in Bulgaria, and BlueLink Stories - a regional e-magazine for Central and Eastern Europe.

Enhancing journalism in public interest and freedom of speech – strengthening professional skills and promoting high professional and ethical norms of journalism in public interest, facilitating journalists’ cooperation and engagement with civil society and social movements, use of independent expertise and interactive IT tools for quality reporting and storytelling.

Geodata-based IT instruments for civic participation - such as: Signali.bg, an intelligent tool helpig citizens' complaintst to institutions; and bezdim.org/signali - intelligent e-platform for citizens monitoring the implementation of tobacco smoke-free regulations; . Other virtual platforms that enable citizens and civic initiatives to alert CSOs and authorities about cases of: illegal deforestation; urban environmental problems; and breaches of Bulgaria's non-smoking regulations.

BlueLink Civic Action Network - a virtual social network of Bulgarian NGOs, activist groups and individual citizens, supplied with a portfolio of mailing lists, web pages and other channels of user-generated content on environmental, sustainability and nature conservation, but also human rights, democracy and other issues.

Research and analysis of communication, social, political and media trends, shaping democracy, civil society and sustainable development, including annual contributions to Global Internet Society Watch and other policy and action research.