Civic Tech and the Sad Story of Freedom of Information in Hungary - NUUG 2015-08-11

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Jeg minner om "Civic Tech"-presentasjon hos NUUG kommende tirsdag, der
vi lærer mer om innsynslover og situasjonen i Ungarn, i anledning NUUGs
lansering av tjenesten Mimes brønn, <URL: http://www.mimesbronn.no/ >.
Oppdatert informasjon om arrangementet finnes på
<URL: http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20150811-alaveteli-hungary/ >.

[Petter Reinholdtsen 2015-07-07]
> Norwegian Unix User Group (NUUG) inviterer til medlemsmøte i NUUG Oslo.
> Alle medlemmer og ikke-medlemmer er velkomne. Arrangementet er gratis.
> Etter foredraget (fra ca. 19:45) blir det sosialt samvær.
>
> Tid:   Tirsdag 11. august 2015 kl. 18.30
>
> Sted:  Teknologihuset, 3.etg Pilestredet 56, og Atea Stavanger,
>        Stadionparken (Viking Stadion), Jåttåvågveien 7, Stavanger
>        (videostream).
>
> Månedens tema er: «Civic Tech and the Sad Story of Freedom of
> Information in Hungary» med Marietta Le. Foredraget vil foregå på
> engelsk:
>
>   "Átlátszó," the word means "transparent" in Hungarian, and it is the
>   name of Hungary's first independent investigative journalism
>   website. A watchdog non-government organisation (NGO) which has
>   experimented with introducing Civic Tech solutions in order to
>   facilitate the work of its team, and also to provide citizens with
>   empowering tools. Since Atlatszo.hu[1] was launched in 2011, the
>   Freedom of Information Act has received a lot of attention, and the
>   legal way for questioning public bodies about spending, a "Freedom of
>   Information request" has become the tool for many to reveal
>   information about corruption.
>
>   Marietta Le will showcase the use of the free software system
>   Alaveteli[2], and the use of the Freedom of Information Act in Hungary.
>   The law has been changed since 2011, and the latest news is about a
>   threat that would make access to information much harder for Hungarian
>   citizens. Meanwhile, Atlatszo.hu and many others are trying to
>   implement new Civic Tech solutions in Hungary to help people exercise
>   their democratic rights.
>
>  [1] <http://atlatszo.hu/>
>  [2] <http://www.alaveteli.org/>
>
> Marietta Le is an FOI advocate at Atlatszo.hu Hungarian investigative
> journalism website. She also works with the K-Monitor[3] anti-corruption
> NGO as a project coordinator to "Be Smart with Data", a program that
> facilitates NGOs in producing web apps and visualisations using open
> data. In 2015 the Hungarian Forbes magazine has featured her on their
> "30 under 30" list for starting "Jarokelo.hu[4]", a street fixing
> website in Hungary.
>
> In 2014 one of her articles, "Har ungarerne endelig skjønt at de lever i
> et demokrati?[5]", was translated to Norwegian and publisehed in Vox
> Publica. Check it out if you want to learn more about her view on
> democracy in Hungary.
>
>  [3] <http://k-monitor.hu/>
>  [4] <http://jarokelo.hu/>
>  [5] <http://voxpublica.no/2014/12/har-ungarerne-endelig-skjont-at-de-lever-i-et-demokrati/>
>
> Medlemsmøtet vil også bli direktesendt over internett, adressen til
> videostrømmen er <http://www.nuug.no/live.m3u>, som du kan åpne i
> nettleseren eller direkte i mediaavspilleren. For mer informasjon se
> egen side om direktesending av video.
>
> Minner forøvrig om NUUGs IRC-kanal #nuug på irc.freenode.net,
> mailinglisten aktive at nuug.no for diskusjon om aktiviteten i NUUG og at
> NUUGs kalender er tilgjengelig på iCalender-format via
> <http://www.nuug.no/adict/ical.php?organizer=NUUG>.
>
> Vel møtt!

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Vennlig hilsen
Petter Reinholdtsen
Foreningen NUUG