[Okfn-is] freedom of information request/tracking platform in norway and iceland?

Mon May 12 08:48:22 UTC 2014

Hey folks,

Hope you're all doing very well.

Nudge, nudge : Might you have any thoughts on adopting the FOI system
Froide...?

Sweden is showing interest again - so it might make sense to try to do the
doings at the same time.

No pressure, just doing a regular ping on the matter ;)

All the best,

miska

On 27 April 2014 13:51, miska knapek <miska at knapek.org> wrote:

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> Hey Finnur, and everyone else ;)
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> Thanks for the notes Finnur. Good plans.
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> I talked to the the system admin at OKF FInland - Jaakko Kornhonen - and
> he said the following:
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> - If the given country translates and puts in the local (authorities, etc…
> ) information, that's the largest part done.
> ( There's an community-translation-supporting platform OKF Finland has
> used to translate Froide to Finnish and Finnish-Swedish, called
> https://www.transifex.com/ that can be used ).
> - OKF Finland can help a country get a Froide installation going,
> technically..
> - OKF Finland can help host the Froide instance o OKF Finland's servers,
> perhaps not indefinitely but at least such that the platform gets running
> and such that a given country can get the platform running on their own
> servers.
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> So, if one can organise a community to translate, OKF Finland can help
> with getting the Froide instance going, and host it for a while.
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> Hope this helps :)
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> all the best,
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> miska
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> On 25 April 2014 16:41, Finnur Magnusson <gommit at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>> I have been thinking about setting up such a site for Iceland for a while
>> now.
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>> We translated CKAN quickly so I think this should be rather straight
>> forward.
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>> Please keep me informed about next steps.
>>
>> Best regards
>> Finnur
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>> On 25 Apr 2014, at 14:40, miska knapek <miska at knapek.org> wrote:
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>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I'm posting this as I was in touch with OKFN Denmark and Sweden about
>> this, and thought it made sense to mention it here too.
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>> OKFN Denmark and OKFN Sweden have expressed a desire for an Freedom Of
>> Information Request site, something alike MySociety's WahtDoTheyKnow.
>>
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>> Perhaps OKF Finland might be able to lend a helping hand…
>> Basically the OKFN Norway/Iceland just need to provide some help
>> translating an OKFN FOI project, plus some help maintaining the site, and
>> otherwise OKFN Finland is ready to help get the show on the road - even
>> providing some hosting.
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>> So.
>> OKF Finland is setting up an instance of  a OKFN.de FOI issuing/tracking
>> project called Friode ( http://stefanw.github.io/froide/ ) . Froide is
>> currently the engine powering the German FOI sitehttps://fragdenstaat.de/
>> .
>>  ( OKF Finland is also planning to do something about updating the
>> graphic design - with all respect to the current german aesthetics ;)
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>>  All's that needs to happen is that the system is translated into the
>> relevant language - eg. Danish - and for the relevant ministry/agency
>> contact details to be be entered into the system.   To make things heasy,
>> the hosting and server maintenance of the service can happen initially via
>> OKF Finland, while it might well make sense to transfer it to a local
>> server with time.
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>> The translation of the site can happen rather easily. It's based on
>> Django ( python ), all the texts are stored in one file, and there are
>> online sites which allow a community to collaboratively translate the texts
>> from one of the said files, and get a new localised file for use.   So as
>> long as people know how to translate, it's just another regular
>> webinterface that people need to use.
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>> So, this is one possible way that Norway and Iceland could get a FOI
>> system going rather quickly.
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>> OKF Finland is already involved in getting Froide installed in Sweden, so
>> doing all the Nordic countries would be quite easy ad desirable.
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>> So, what do you think?
>> I realise establishing a consensus online is a bit tricky, but any
>> general notes and reflections are entirely welcome!
>>
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>> Thanks and all the best,
>>
>> miska
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