Dear Maria, The most famous site here in the UK is whatdotheyknow.com which is very similar to what you describe and now accounts for around 10% of all requests. It is run by mySociety who do lots of other innovations around data. The site is here http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/ and they also have a blog http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/blog. A similar site is also to be launched in Germany and, later in the year, for the EU -here's a short blog post about it http://constitution-unit.com/2011/08/03/was-wissen-sie/.
I hope this helps, Ben Research Associate Constitution Unit Department of Political Science, University College London, 29-30 Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9QU, United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0) 20 7679 4974 Fax: +44 (0) 20 7679 4978 http://www.ucl.ac.uk/constitution-unit ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:foianet-bounces at lists.foiadvocates.info] On Behalf Of Maria Luisa Sotomayor Sent: 21 September 2011 14:49 To: Foianet Subject: [foianet] Information access web sites Dear FOIA advocates, in Chile we've developed a web platform called "Acceso Inteligente" (Smart Access, a web application that allows citizens to request public information from any Chilean government agency, all from a single website, a "one-stop-shop". Once an individual submits an information request (protected by FOIA regulation), Acceso Inteligente automatically connects with the online form of each public agency to which information requests are addressed. All answers to those requests are then published online as a searchable data base, so that Citizens may consult relevant information within previous requests (and answers to them) before submitting a new request. Do you know if there are any other similar sites in the rest of the world? Your help will be very useful to us. Thanks so much! Best Regards, Maria Luisa Sotomayor Chief of Communications Ciudadano Inteligente Foundation / Chile www.ciudadanointeligente.org 56 2 4192770 / 56 9 92379372
