Nedervetil (Finnish: ''Alaveteli'')
is a former municipality in
Ostrobothnia, Finland. It is now part of
Kronoby
Kronoby ( fi, Kruunupyy) is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Ostrobothnia region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The populatio ...
municipality.
It has given its Finnish name to
Alaveteli
Alaveteli is free and open source software by mySociety to help citizens write Freedom of Information requests and automatically publish any responses.
Alaveteli is described as "a project to create a free, standard, internationalised platform ...
, open source software to help in
Freedom of Information
Freedom of information is freedom of a person or people to publish and consume information. Access to information is the ability for an individual to seek, receive and impart information effectively. This sometimes includes "scientific, indigen ...
enquiries, because
Anders Chydenius
Anders Chydenius (; 26 February 1729 – 1 February 1803) was a Swedish-Finnish Lutheran priest and a member of the Swedish Riksdag, and is known as the leading classical liberal of Nordic history.
Born in Sotkamo, Finland (then part of Swed ...
(1729–1803), an early proponent of freedom of the press, lived and worked as a curate in this area for some years.
References
Municipalities of Ostrobothnia (region)
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