[Sorvi-admin] Digital advocacy project

[Leo Lahti]

Dear Susannah,

thanks for the response - great to hear about your related plans!

Our site and tool  documentation are mostly in Finnish, as we believe in
localization in the open government data context. The documentation is at
the moment lagging a bit behind tool development due to the
volunteer-driven nature of our project. But we are right now working to
improve the documentation. The current tool documentation is available
through the wiki at (google translate may help):
https://github.com/louhos/soRvi/wiki/Data and the source code for each tool
can be found from the GitHub account at https://github.com/louhos/soRvi And
(preliminary) installation instructions for the sorvi R library at:
http://louhos.github.com/sorvi/asennus.html

Most of these tools concern Finnish open government data and may not be as
such directly applicable for your purposes. But they could provide a
starting point. We would like to promote & network similar initiatives in
other countries as there would certainly be overlap that can be utilized.

It would be great to discuss together related issues. At least some of us
would be available for a phone/skype meeting at least on July 20-24, August
7, and then August 20 onwards (summer holidays now ongoing here in Finland,
and many people go off-line). Let us know how these times would match -

best regard,
Leo


On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 11:06 PM, Susannah Vila <vila at theengineroom.org>wrote:

> Hey Leo,
>
> Thanks for getting in touch. We took a look through your site and it looks
> very interesting, but is there any way to learn more about the specifics of
> the tool you offer? We have an in progress project which is especially
> relevant to your work, and might even be able to take advantage of code you
> have already written. Any chance we could hop on the phone this month to
> describe and get the feedback of you and/or your colleagues?
>
> Thanks again for getting in touch.
>
> Susannah
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 5:14 AM, Leo Lahti <leo.lahti at iki.fi> wrote:
>
>> Dear Engine Room admins,
>>
>> I recently learned about your project aimed to map initiatives for
>> digital advocacy. At https://www.theengineroom.org/services/#support you
>> ask to provide information on related, complementary projects.
>>
>> In the Finnish Louhos project (http://louhos.github.com/en), we are
>> working to collect comprehensive software libraries to analyze society and
>> decision-making processes based on publicly available data resources. Our
>> project aims to combine latest advances in data analysis to up-to-date data
>> resources and to provide freely available analytical research tools for
>> academics, NGOs, journalists, citizens, and other target groups. I felt
>> that this project is within the scope of your initiative, therefore wanted
>> to follow your request and send a note. We will be happy to provide further
>> information of the project, if you wish.
>>
>> kind regards
>> Leo Lahti, D.Sc.
>> Louhos, Finland
>>
>>
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