Alaveteli is Social Email
Make requests in public. Hold corporations and governments to account.

Alaveteli has helped citizens ask more than
100,000 Freedom of Information requests in 10 jurisdictions, such as:

Lowers the barriers that prevent citizens asking questions of those in power
Out-of-the-box support for making Freedom of Information requests to public bodies
Sends requests via normal email channels, and publishes responses online (with attachments) instantly
Integrates well with social media
Users can subscribe to email alerts matching any words or phrases they like
Responses are categorised by users for easy searching and reporting
Translated into 10 languages (and counting...)

Download Turbo Transparency, a paper about how and why to use Alaveteli for Freedom of Information systems
Find out more about the Alaveteli project
Read the Getting Started guide on our wiki
If you are an organisation who wants to use Alaveteli in your jurisdiction, or a developer who is interested in collaborating on the software, please send a message introducing yourself to our developers mailing list or our users mailing list
Developers might want to start with the technical overview.