Opengov.hk

We're making it easy to request information from the Hong Kong government!

The Hong Kong government and civil service are bound by the Code of Access to Information, but it's currently rather cumbersome to make a request for information under this Code. This website will change that, by making it as easy as writing a request in a textbox. It is inspired by the UK and German Freedom of Information websites.

The list of public bodies

There is currently no official directory of email addresses of Access to Information officers in Hong Kong, so we need to maintain one. Please help us by checking and editing our public spreadsheet which can be found at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x3WISjwPeC81n3GQTsqPxvKLnxpNehqyaWjdyCTX1bA/

Translation

We want this website to function in both English and Chinese. Please help us in achieving this by providing translations at https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/opengovhk/ . Thank you so much for your help!

Technical stuff

This is a basic Django project with a theme app that plugs into Froide.

Get started easily

In a Python virtualenv run:

pip install -r requirements.txt -e .
python manage.py syncdb --migrate
python manage.py runserver

Here is a complete guide of how to set this up on Heroku.

License