'Who Are You' Portal Logs 14,000 Reports in a Month
In less than a month, Serbia's 'Who Are You' portal took in more than 14,000 anonymous reports. In Belegis, Aleksandar Vucic said about ten people handle them and every report is printed out.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on August 8, after addressing citizens in Belegis, that the “Who Are You” portal had received more than 14,000 reports. It is the first public figure on the platform’s volume since it went live on July 10.
The portal runs at kosibreti.rs, and Vucic himself initiated its launch. It is meant for anonymous reports of arrogant behavior by public officials, corruption, abuse of office and other unlawful conduct. Reports can be filed without registration or any personal information, and when the site launched, its operators said it does not track users or log the IP addresses of people who submit reports.
“We’ve already had 14,000 reports come in. People have all kinds of problems and complaints. Sometimes you see frustration over decisions we haven’t made, sometimes you see plenty of other things. But these are things that matter, we need to hear people out and fight for them,” Vucic said after the gathering in Belegis.
No earlier figure had been released, so this is the first time the volume of material passing through the platform is known.
Who is reading 14,000 reports?
Vucic said about ten people work on processing the reports every day, and that none of them get lost once they arrive in electronic form.
“About ten of our people, guys and girls, work on this every single day. Every report gets printed out and every one is taken into account, all of it gets put into my materials,” Vucic said.
The numbers translate easily into a workload. From July 10 to August 8 is 29 days. With 14,000 reports, that works out to roughly 480 a day, and if about ten people really are handling them, each person faces around fifty submissions a day to read, sort and print. Vucic added that they try to respond quickly, but that not everyone who wrote in can get an answer right away.
Comparing the numbers to the first day shows how much the response has grown. On July 10, by 1 p.m., the portal had received 88 reports, and Vucic spoke at the time about people writing in from every part of the country. In under a month, that figure grew a hundred and sixty times over.
What citizens have been reporting
The first reports Vucic mentioned were minor taken individually, but familiar to anyone living in a Serbian municipality. Citizens sent in documentation about customs officers they believed had broken the rules. From Pancevo came a photo of an official’s car parked with all four wheels on the sidewalk, in the middle of town.
That kind of content explains the response. The portal does not ask for a legal case or supporting evidence, only a report of what someone saw, and the bar for filing is a few clicks with no name attached.
The number speaks to turnout, not outcome
A tally of 14,000 reports is a measurable figure. What was not said in Belegis is how many of those reports were forwarded to the relevant authorities, how many were dismissed as unfounded, and whether a single official has faced any consequence over a report. Printing a report and filing it into the material is a record, but a record is not a process.
There is also the question the portal raises simply by existing. Reports do not go to an institution bound by a statutory deadline and a right of appeal, they go to a team working for the president, so the pace of any response is a matter of that team’s capacity, as Vucic himself acknowledged when he said not everyone gets an answer right away.
The next checkpoint worth watching is tied to a specific date. On October 10, the portal will mark three months of operation, and only then will this first figure be measurable against a second one, comparing reports received to reports that actually went somewhere.
