Free.Ex
Maria Popa / 2012-12-13

Crowd-mapping all abuses against media, journalists and freedom of expression.

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Designing an automatic form to register such abuses and visualize cross-data by geographic region or city.
Adding an automatic newsletter and an alert, based on daily/monthly registered cases.
Adding a self-publishing tool, to generate a full yearly report.
Opening the moderating of the database to a dedicated community.
Mapping all legislative changes and proposals against freedom of expression.

Team leader:
Maria Popa (journalist)

Team members
Liana Ganea (activist)
Catalin Sandu (coder)
Andrei Ionita (designer)
Marian Chiriac (journalist)

Free software license:
GNU GPLv3
Open data license:
n/a
Online demo:
http://thesponge.eu/projects/freeex/
Source code:
https://github.com/thesponge/FreeEx-Maps-Demo
Technologies used:
PHP, CodeIgniter
Archive:
freeex.tar.bz2