Alaveteli

Software to help make freedom of information requests
Alaveteli
Alaveteli.org
Written inRuby on Rails
LicenseAGPLv3[1]
Websitealaveteli.org

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]

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

  • 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 – http://imamopravoznati.org/
  • Czech Republic – http://www.infoprovsechny.cz/
  • European Union – http://www.asktheeu.org/
  • 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

  1. ^ "Alaveteli – GitHub".
  2. ^ "About « Alaveteli – international Right to Know software". Alaveteli.org. Retrieved 2012-05-27.
  3. ^ Credits, WhatDoTheyKnow.com
  4. ^ "Alaveteli".
  5. ^ "Funding / mySociety".
  6. ^ "About". WhatDoTheyKnow. Retrieved 2012-05-27.
  7. ^ The World's First Freedom of Information Act
  8. ^ "Google Groups".
  9. ^ "AlaveteliCon 2015 / mySociety".
  10. ^ "stefanw/froide". GitHub. Retrieved 2016-10-28.
  11. ^ "MuckRock/muckrock". GitHub. Retrieved 2017-03-23.