Alaveteli

For the place, see Alaveteli, Finland.

Alaveteli

Alaveteli.org
Written in	Ruby on Rails
License	AGPLv3[1]
Website	alaveteli.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 – 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

1. "Alaveteli – GitHub". 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.