[Sorvi-admin] Digital advocacy project

[Susannah Vila]

Leo,

Any chance you can do Tuesday the 24th at 230 PM London time (GMT +1)?

Let us know,

Susannah

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Leo Lahti <leo.lahti at iki.fi> wrote:

> 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/#supportyou 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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>>>
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>>>
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>>>
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>>> and evaluation;
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>>> and lasting impact
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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