A presentation for the 'pitch session' following the workshops at local by social NW

1. The FOI anonymiser
2nd Anoniversary by Anonymous9000 on F
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2. 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 @rickseymour
Find out more at http://localbysocial.net
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3. Whistle blowing?
ElectronicFrontierFoundation on Flickr
Can be career damaging
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4. Rules for FOI
• must be a named person
• can’t be anonymous
• BUT an email address is enough....
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5. The traditional methods
info@lancaster.gov.uk
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6. Public FOI requests
has the advantage of making FOI
requests public and shareable
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7. The problem
council worker wants to whistle blow (but not really....)
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8. 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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9. suggest an
FOI Person C can vote on
A C
interesting suggestions
or follow FOIs
Person A works inside
an organisation - and
wants information
exposed. A submits a
suggested FOI to the What Do They
FOI exchanger
exchange
Know?
make an FOI
Person B visits the FOI Person B gets ‘points’
exchange, perhaps to for making the FOI,
make their own which means his/her
suggestion and sees A’s request is given a little
request. Thinks it’s
interesting and makes an B extra prominence in the
exchange
FOI request via WDTK
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10. 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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11. 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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12. 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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