This sounds like a great idea, there is a lot of potential in these Eastern European countries and - speaking from my limited experience of Romania - things are moving very rapidly. Now is the time to make sure that as things are changing and improving that they are doing so in a way that makes all systems more open and accountable.
Would it be sensible to have some of this information in the language of the countries for which you are aiming? Or will that simply lead to problems further down the line when a language barrier is inhibiting your ability to offer advice? Matt Tom Steinberg wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm very happy to let you know that we've just pulled the wraps off a > new project to help people in Central and Eastern Europe who want to > build and grow their own transparency and democracy sites. > > http://cee.mysociety.org > > We're doing this in conjunction with the Open Society Institute and > the plan is to find people or organisations with great ideas for > locally appropriate projects and then help them to make them into real > bits of technology that really matter to local people. > > In order to pick projects we're running a call for proposals (CfP) > just like we did for our own projects recently, but this time it is > the applicants who we expect to build projects. mySociety's role will > be to give winners of the CfP advice, support, encouragement, tech > knowledge and other know-how , whilst OSI will supply the funding > crucial to actually getting good sites and mobile services built. > > In order to run this project we've contracted our Estonia based > WhatDoTheyKnow.com volunteer Tony Bowden who has been doing a great > job getting every ready to start accepting proposals. I know Tony > wants me to ask you all to send the project URL to anyone you think > might be interested, so please do help. > > Here's the URL again: > http://cee.mysociety.org > > all the best, > > Tom > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list [email protected] > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
