[ddj] Best Practice in Data Journalism - Contributions for the Data Driven Journalism Handbook *today*

[Everton Zanella Alvarenga]

Hola Angela!

2011/11/6 Peralta Ramos Momi (Gerente de Desarrollo Multimedia)
<APERALTA at lanacion.com.ar>:

> Besides, there´s a couple of videos we´ve made with Screenr , with our
> scrapper programs running as well as the difficulties we find in gathering
> data from PDFs . Here in Argentina there´s still no FOIA, no data.gov, no
> data in good conditions…, that´s why LA NACION in Argentina is contributing
> to any open data iniciative , hackaton or whatever citizen initiative we
> find to build data for everyone in argentina to use. That´s why we supported
> Hacks and Hackers Buenos Aires last hackaton too, and I´ve been there
> myself.

Do you know there in Argentina of any developers and other people who
are interested in civic hacking who are organizaing themselves as a
group? If so, may you put me in touch with them (if they have a
mailing list, website and so on), please? Maybe this "Hacks and
Hackers" from Buenos Aires Lucy mention on her email?

Here in Brazil we just have our freedom of information legislation
approved on our Senate and soon it will be sanctioned by President
Dilma, so we will have a lot to do now (so exciting!). We have a group
called Transparência Hacker, which usually organize through a mailing
list and other groups and people interested in this issue are
appearing here.

At the moment I'm helping to start a OKFn chapter in Brazil [1] and
one of the focus I proposed is to have datajournalism projects here.
It would be nice to have contacts there in Argentina interested on
this issue - I know pretty well a group involved with open educational
resources, Wikimedia Argentina, and the Brazilian group Wikimedia
Brazil is already collaborating with them.

Cheers,

Tom

[1] http://wiki.okfn.org/Brazil