Publishing Freedom of Information (FOI) Requests

Hackathon problem statement
FOI requests
This is important because usually all the data we possess is either in hard copy, or in PDF format. When publishing this data, we must find a solution on how to make them more accessible and usable to citizens.
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Create software that would upload data on the internet in searchable PDF format. Also, to have the possibility to find data by selecting a type of information, public agency that produced information, and other criteria.

We would like to see more and more citizens using the published data to collect information about an issue. A lot of citizens, along with media, NGOs, politicians and so on, would be affected by this and all of them could benefit from this software. We can easily integrate this project with our existing work in the field of free access to information, fight against corruption, illegal construction, public procurement and suspicious privatization processes. All of these projects include collecting and linking data and information, obtained according to the Law on Free Access to Information.

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