Credit where credit’s due #

AccessInfoHongKong is a community project. It is powered by Alaveteli, open-source software for making access to information requests.

Development #

Hearty cheers to Alaveteli’s many contributors.

How to help #

Become a volunteer #

If you have a passion for transparency, a great deal of patience, and a bit of spare time, consider helping out as a volunteer on AccessInfoHongKong. Work includes user support and helping resolve issues with requests, and is primarily managed via email.

In the first instance, get in touch.

Sort things out #

Admin can be fun! Help people find successful requests, and monitor performance of departments, by playing the categorisation game.

Or be a dear, and find out request email addresses of authorities that we're missing.

Spread the word #

We don’t have a marketing budget, so word of mouth really helps.

• Write a blog post about AccessInfoHongKong, or an interesting request that you've found.
• Post about the site, and what you can do with it, on a forum that you frequent.
• Tell friends about it.
• Let your local newspaper or community publication know how useful we are.
• Give a talk.

Improve our code #

Seen something that could work better? If you're a programmer, get the source code for the upstream project, Alaveteli, and send a pull request. AccessInfoHongKong is coded in Ruby on Rails.