Dear Lydia, Many thanks for sharing this. This visualization is indeed very interesting -it would indeed make sense to use it for issues collecting or comparing standards on different topics.
I am looking forward to seeing the new website! Andrea ---------------------------------------------------------- Andrea M. Figari Transparency International | Alt-Moabit 96, 10559 Berlin, Germany | www.transparency.org <http://www.transparency.org/> afigari at transparency.org <mailto:afigari at transparency.org> | Tel +49-30-34 38 20-655 | Fax +49-30-34 70 39-12 ________________________________ From: foianet-bounces at foiadvocates.info [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lydia Medland Sent: 15 April 2009 19:36 To: Eszter Filippinyi Cc: foianet at foiadvocates.info Subject: Re: [foianet] An issue-based map of FOIAnet expertise Hi Eszter, I?m glad you like the map. The idea would be to do one when a question or substantive query arises, that is likely that people will want to refer back to again. It wouldn?t be for all exchanges, but part of the idea would be to stimulate debate. One way of doing it would be to create a map when people request that a certain issue is presented like this. At the moment it is still up for debate, so thanks for your response! Regards Lydia Eszter Filippinyi escribi?: Dear Lydia and AIE Team, I am not sure how hard or not is to make this map for every question posted on FOIANet, but I like it very much! It's a great visual tool, and I like to see all answers organized on the side and then also clicking on the countries getting the full answer. Are you planning to show all communication of FOIAnet in this way, or just selected questions/ answers? In case this is too complicated, just an easily navegable archive of questions/answers would be fantastic! Good luck with the rest of the work and looking very much forward to see the new site! Hugs, Eszter -----Original Message----- From: foianet-bounces at foiadvocates.info [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lydia Medland Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 6:08 PM To: foianet at foiadvocates.info Subject: [foianet] An issue-based map of FOIAnet expertise Dear FOIA advocates, As you know we are soon to launch a new website for the FOIA net. As part of this website we have been thinking how best to present the information shared and generated by members of the FOIAnet community over areas of particular current relevance. Taking the last question posted on the FOIA net we have therefore tested the idea of mapping the voices of experience and expertise from around the world. You can see the result here: http://maps.google.es/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=es&msa=0&ll=25.165173,-8.4375&spn=139.548434,360&z=2&msid=102933320926342466891.00046781ffeefb88a8b50 (Thank you for these responses included in the map, they are very useful to our current work. Also feel free to send us any more follow-ups to this question about salaries of public officials, they will be appreciated.) I would really like to hear if you you like the map and think it is a useful tool. Also let me know if there are any other past conversations that you would like to see plotted or if you have any similar ideas. Perhaps more importantly it is also important that we hear any concerns, for example, do you think that it is appropriate to have FOIA net conversations featured in this public way? Thanks for your time and do e-mail me reactions! We are working hard on getting the website up very soon, please bear with us in the mean time! Best, Lydia Transparency International is the global civil society organisation leading the fight against corruption. www.transparency.org This email is confidential and intended for the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, disclosure, distribution, printing or copying of this email is unauthorised. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender by replying to the email, then delete all copies from your computer. This email and its attachments have been swept for computer viruses but Transparency International accepts no responsibility whatsoever for damage caused by viruses in connection with this email. Transparency International may monitor all emails and attachments as it is presumed that they are sent or received in connection with the activities of TI and to ensure the integrity of its computer systems. Statements and opinions contained in this email are those of the sender, not necessarily of Transparency International. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.foiadvocates.info/private.cgi/foianet-foiadvocates.info/attachments/20090416/28f87089/attachment-0001.htm> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 73 bytes Desc: image001.gif URL: <http://lists.foiadvocates.info/private.cgi/foianet-foiadvocates.info/attachments/20090416/28f87089/attachment-0001.gif>
