Alaveteli
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Alaveteli.org | |
| Development status | Active |
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| Written in | Ruby on Rails |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| License | AGPLv3[1] |
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alaveteli |
Alaveteli is free and open source software by mySociety to help citizens write Freedom of Information requests and automatically publish any responses.[2]
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]
An alternative free and open source software that is used to operate FOI-request portals is Froide.[10] FragDenStaat.de in Germany and FragDenStaat.at in Austria are based on that framework.
Sites running Alaveteli
- Australia - https://www.righttoknow.org.au
- Belgium - https://transparencia.be/
- Bosnia - http://www.pravodaznam.ba
- Brazil - http://www.queremossaber.org.br
- Croatia - http://imamopravoznati.org/
- Czech Republic - http://www.infoprovsechny.cz/
- European Union - http://www.asktheeu.org/
- Hong Kong - https://accessinfo.hk/
- Hungary - http://kimittud.atlatszo.hu/
- Israel - http://www.askdata.org.il/
- Italy - Chiedi
- Kosovo - http://www.informatazyrtare.org
- Liberia - http://infolib.org.lr/
- Macedonia - http://www.slobodenpristap.mk/
- Malaysia - http://foi.sinarproject.org/
- Nepal - https://asknepal.info/
- New Zealand - http://fyi.org.nz
- Nicaragua - https://derechoapreguntar.org/
- Norway - https://www.mimesbronn.no/
- Paraguay - http://queremosaber.org.py/
- Romania - https://nuvasuparati.info/
- Rwanda - https://sobanukirwa.rw/
- Serbia - http://www.daznamosvi.rs/
- Spain - http://tuderechoasaber.es
- Sweden - http://fragastaten.se/
- Ukraine - https://dostup.pravda.com.ua/
- United Kingdom - WhatDoTheyKnow
- Uganda - http://askyourgov.ug/
- Uruguay - http://www.quesabes.org/
References
- ↑ "Alaveteli - 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.