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diff --git a/_posts/2012-04-16-alavetelicon-community-cakes-and-black-boxes.markdown b/_posts/2012-04-16-alavetelicon-community-cakes-and-black-boxes.markdown index 6009722fb..aec6fcf77 100644 --- a/_posts/2012-04-16-alavetelicon-community-cakes-and-black-boxes.markdown +++ b/_posts/2012-04-16-alavetelicon-community-cakes-and-black-boxes.markdown @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ I'm not sure what conclusion to take from this, exactly. It remains the case tha Lots of people at the conference asked for more statistics to be made available on Alaveteli sites. mySociety has always been a little reluctant to release statistics, because they are so easy to spin or misinterpret. However, delegates repeatedly referred to their power for campaigning. The psychological impact of a big red cross next to your organisation's name, which you can remedy through positive action, is a powerful motivator. One idea that was mooted was to award a real-life prize (a.k.a. [Cake and Fireworks](https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/issues/438)) to the "top" authorities in various categories each year. I think this is a great idea. **3. Black Box APIs** -[Acesso Inteligente](www.accesointeligente.org) is an FOI website in Chile that doesn't use Alaveteli. In Chile, all FOI requests must be made via various different web forms. Accesso Inteligente is a tremendous technical achievement which automatically posts requests to the correct organisation's form, and "screen scrapes" the results, giving Chilean citizens a uniform interface to make all FOI requests. +[Acesso Inteligente](https://www.accesointeligente.org/AccesoInteligente/#home) is an FOI website in Chile that doesn't use Alaveteli. In Chile, all FOI requests must be made via various different web forms. Accesso Inteligente is a tremendous technical achievement which automatically posts requests to the correct organisation's form, and "screen scrapes" the results, giving Chilean citizens a uniform interface to make all FOI requests. The team behind the website would love to use Alaveteli as their front end system. The concept they've come up with is deceptively simple: repackage their form-posting-and-scraping functionality as a "black box" which acts as if it's an authority that accepts FOI requests by emails, and sends the answers by email. They can then install Alaveteli without any modifications, and configure it to send FOI requests to the relevant "black box" email addresses. |