foi exchanger
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A presentation for the 'pitch session' following the workshops at local by social NWTRANSCRIPT
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The FOI anonymiser
2nd Anoniversary by Anonymous9000 on Flickr
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What’s this for?
This is a presentation for a pitch session from the workshops at the Local by Social
North West edition - 18 March 2011.
worked on by @ingridk and @rickseymourFind out more at http://localbysocial.net
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Whistle blowing?
ElectronicFrontierFoundation on Flickr
Can be career damaging
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Rules for FOI
• must be a named person
• can’t be anonymous
• BUT an email address is enough....
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The traditional methods
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Public FOI requests
has the advantage of making FOI requests public and shareable
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The problem
• council worker wants to whistle blow (but not really....)
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FOI exchange• log onto What Do They Know
• I want to make anonymous FOI request
• another person see the ‘request for a request’
• Person B - takes ownership and makes request
• Person A can view and follow request
• This IS a legally compliant request!
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FOI exchangerWhat Do They
Know?
suggest an FOI
make an FOI
Person A works inside an organisation - and wants information exposed. A submits a suggested FOI to the exchange
A
B
C
Person B visits the FOI exchange, perhaps to make their own suggestion and sees A’s request. Thinks it’s interesting and makes an FOI request via WDTK
Person B gets ‘points’ for making the FOI, which means his/her request is given a little extra prominence in the exchange
Person C can vote on interesting suggestions or follow FOIs
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Rewards for playing
• Person B gets points for making Person A’s request
• Person B’s questions get higher up the scale
• others can vote on questions to be asked
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unresolved questions
• is there a dispute about ‘real question from a real person’
• maintaining anonymity
• giving prominence and promotion to juicy questions.
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What do we need to make this happen?
• Two days coding - Ruby on Rails
• A little bit more design UI/UX
• MySociety adoption?
• A bit of push...
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