Alaveteli is free and open source software by mySociety to help citizens write freedom of Information requests and automatically publish any responses.

[2] Alaveteli is described as "a project to create a free, standard, internationalised platform for making Freedom of Information (FOI) requests".

[5] It started life as the software running WhatDoTheyKnow, a UK site that publishes responses to FOI requests.

The original WhatDoTheyKnow code was written primarily by Francis Irving while working for mySociety.

People who run sites on the Alaveteli platform are also invited to become part of a community, with support and tips shared via a message board,[8] and regular conferences[9] Alternative free and open source software that are used to operate FOI-request portals include Froide, which[10] FragDenStaat.de in Germany and FragDenStaat.at in Austria are based on, and MuckRock,[11] which is used for MuckRock and FOIA Machine in the United States.