Alaveteli is free and open source software by mySociety to help citizens write freedom of Information requests and automatically publish any responses.[2]
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 Alaveteli.org | |
| Written in | Ruby on Rails |
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| License | AGPLv3[1] |
| Website | alaveteli |
Alaveteli is described as "a project to create a free, standard, internationalised platform for making Freedom of Information (FOI) requests".[3][4] Alaveteli is funded by the Open Society Institute and the Hivos Foundation.[5]
It started life as the software running WhatDoTheyKnow, a UK site that publishes responses to FOI requests. The original WhatDoTheyKnow code was written primarily by Francis Irving while working for mySociety.[6] Alaveteli is named after Alaveteli in Finland where Anders Chydenius who was an early campaigner[7] for Freedom of Information worked as a curate. Alaveteli is the name for the software rather than a public facing website or brand.
People who run sites on the Alaveteli platform are also invited to become part of a community, with support and tips shared via a message board,[8] and regular conferences[9]
Alternative free and open source software that are used to operate FOI-request portals include Froide, which[10] FragDenStaat.de in Germany and FragDenStaat.at in Austria are based on, and MuckRock,[11] which is used for MuckRock and FOIA Machine in the United States.
Sites running Alaveteli
edit- Australia – https://www.righttoknow.org.au
- Belgium – https://transparencia.be/
- Bosnia – https://web.archive.org/web/20170925022926/http://pravodaznam.ba/
- Brazil – http://www.queremossaber.org.br
- Congo (DRC) – http://www.tunabakonzi.org/
- Croatia – https://imamopravoznati.org/
- Czech Republic – https://www.infoprovsechny.cz/
- European Union – https://www.asktheeu.org/
- France – https://madada.fr/
- Hong Kong – https://accessinfo.hk/
- Hungary – https://www.kimittud.hu/
- Israel – https://web.archive.org/web/20140408222116/http://www.askdata.org.il/
- Italy – Chiedi
- Kosovo – https://archive.today/20130415060831/http://www.informatazyrtare.org/
- Liberia – http://infolib.org.lr/
- Macedonia – http://www.slobodenpristap.mk/
- Malaysia – https://web.archive.org/web/20160817111902/http://foi.sinarproject.org/
- Moldova - https://vreauinfo.md
- Nepal – https://asknepal.info/
- New Zealand – http://fyi.org.nz
- Nicaragua – https://derechoapreguntar.org/
- Norway – https://www.mimesbronn.no/
- Paraguay – https://web.archive.org/web/20161016103538/https://www.queremosaber.org.py/
- Romania – https://web.archive.org/web/20161014060621/https://nuvasuparati.info/
- Rwanda – https://sobanukirwa.rw/
- Serbia – https://archive.today/20140615094118/http://www.daznamosvi.rs/
- Spain – http://tuderechoasaber.es
- Sweden – http://fragastaten.se/
- Ukraine – https://dostup.pravda.com.ua/
- United Kingdom – https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/
- Uganda – http://askyourgov.ug/
- Uruguay – http://www.quesabes.org/
References
edit- ^ "Alaveteli – GitHub". GitHub.
- ^ "About « Alaveteli – international Right to Know software". Alaveteli.org. Retrieved 2012-05-27.
- ^ Credits, WhatDoTheyKnow.com
- ^ "Alaveteli".
- ^ "Funding / mySociety".
- ^ "About". WhatDoTheyKnow. Retrieved 2012-05-27.
- ^ The World's First Freedom of Information Act
- ^ "Google Groups".
- ^ "AlaveteliCon 2015 / mySociety".
- ^ "stefanw/froide". GitHub. Retrieved 2016-10-28.
- ^ "MuckRock/muckrock". GitHub. Retrieved 2017-03-23.