About

g0v.mk is an independent public-interest platform focused on North Macedonia. It takes publicly available government data — procurement contracts, transit schedules, public spending records — and makes it inspectable, evidence-backed, and legible to the public.

The name follows the convention of g0v.tw, the Taiwanese civic tech community that pioneered the idea of replacing the "o" in government with a zero — forking government, not fighting it. g0v.mk applies this ethos to the Macedonian context: not a watchdog, not an adversary, but an instrument of public legibility.

ꙮ The ꙮ (multiocular O) is a rare glyph from a 15th-century Old Church Slavonic manuscript — specifically, a 1429 copy of a text describing the "many-eyed" seraphim. It is Unicode character U+A66E, composed of multiple eyes radiating from a central O.

For g0v.mk, the symbol maps to civic oversight: multiple perspectives watching public data, finding patterns that would be invisible to any single observer. It connects the platform's roots in the Byzantine literary tradition of the region — the same tradition that produced the frescoes of Ohrid — to its mission of making the invisible visible.

g0v.mk is fully independent. It has no affiliation with any government body, political party, or public institution. It does not receive government funding.

The platform carries no advertising, no sponsored content, and no pay-for-access to accountability data. Public interest information is free to access.

Operational costs are covered by the maintainers. The long-term sustainability model follows the precedent set by Prozorro (Ukraine) and mySociety (UK): prove public value first, then seek institutional partnerships — with the constraint that no funding source may compromise editorial independence.

North Macedonia is a candidate country for European Union membership. Chapter 5 of the accession acquis — Public Procurement — is in Cluster 1, the first to be evaluated. The European Commission's assessment: "moderately prepared with limited progress."

g0v.mk positions itself not as a government adversary but as an accession accelerator — a tool that helps demonstrate procurement transparency progress. Every feature decision passes the test: does this help North Macedonia show that its procurement data is legible and inspectable?