[okfn-br] Good news: Brazil's Freedom of Information Act was approved today!

Tue Oct 25 23:22:19 BST 2011

Yes, I am really euphoric with the news! That is really GREAT to our
country and democracy! Sure we still need president Dilma sanction,
but it is almost 100% sure she will approve it. Already calling my
friends congratulating them!

As I said in the thacker mailing list, I think we should start contact
the media to spread the news.

Concerning the language, I believe we can use both languages and we
should use in English when it is important OKFn staff to participate.

I will try to improve our fake on this

http://wiki.okfn.org/Brazil/faq

Hugs!

Tom

Em 25 de outubro de 2011 20:13, Daniela B. Silva <daniela at esfera.mobi> escreveu:
> Hey guys!
>
> Just to let you OKF friends know that our Freedom of Information Act was
> approved by the brazilian Senate today :D
>
> The law will guarantee that we have active publication and access by request
> to public databases in open formats. Hurray \o/
>
> So we are thinking of having our hackday on saturday dedicated to projects
> and ideas that have some relationship to this law:
>
> installing Alavateli (what was already on our plans, but know becomes even
> more important)
> producing content that explains the law, clarifies its relation with open
> data and show more people why it's important
> brainstorm around information requests that can be helpful to stories based
> on open data
>
> Will let you all know of how it goes :)
> Cheers,
> Daniela
> PS: Should we change the language of this list to portuguese? As soon as we
> have more people on it, passed Frederick's presentation, I think some google
> translator will be required – sorry, friends :P
> 2011/10/24 Everton Zanella Alvarenga <everton137 at gmail.com>: