About us

We - MEMO 98 - are a specialist media monitoring organization with extensive experience in delivering media analyses on behalf of international institutions and providing technical assistance to both official institutions and civil society groups. We were launched with support from the US-based National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) in 1998 to monitor the Slovak media, using a methodology of qualitative and quantitative analysis. We sought to evaluate whether the media provided impartial coverage of the political contestants and the relevant campaign issues.

Given the success of our project, we transformed the project into an organization - MEMO 98 - which not only became one of the most respected civic organizations in Slovakia but one of the leading international organization in the field of media and elections. Over 26 years, we have conducted numerous projects in Slovakia and in more than 60 other countries aimed at improving media environment, strengthening critical thinking and helping citizens to receive comprehensive information.

We have also conducted projects focusing on enhancing the capacity of non-government organizations, regulators and media in applying various tools of media monitoring (of both traditional and social media) and on professional assessments of the media environment and its challenges (such as disinformation).

In addition, between 1999 (Ukraine) to these days (Kosovo, Philippines) MEMO 98 experts have participated in more than 130 election observation missions, in five continents, from the United States (West), through Iceland (North), Tanzania (South) tothe Philippines (East).