The Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection, with the support of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, is announcing an Award Contest for the best media article on “The Importance of Personal Data Protection in the Real and Digital World”. The competition aims to raise public awareness about the importance of personal data protection and strengthen journalists’ competencies in reporting on this topic.

The competition is open to journalists from all print, electronic, and online media registered in Serbia who have published texts/articles on the Contest’s topic from 1 November 2024 to 30 June 2025. Multiple journalists from the same Media house can participate, and each participant can submit one text/article.

The criteria on which media works will be evaluated include contribution to educating the general public about ways to protect personal data in everyday life and digital world, contribution to educating the public about possible misuse of personal data and the way of safeguarding it, contribution to understanding the need for personal data protection in the context of the use of artificial intelligence, as well as contribution to understanding the role of the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection in the field of personal data protection, as an independent and autonomous state body.

 

You can download the Contest text here - the submission deadline is July 10, 2025. (Serbian language only)