PUBINFO

PUBINFO is a practical civic-tech project that helps people use their lawful right to access public information in Ukraine.

The service is designed to make this right easier to use in practice: a person fills in a clear form, gets a structured request document, saves a draft, checks the basic response deadline, and prepares the final text for printing or PDF.

Purpose

This project exists to help people exercise their legal rights in a simpler and more understandable way.

It focuses on one practical task:

• preparing a request for public information
• structuring the request in a readable format
• reducing mistakes in wording and document preparation
• helping users keep a copy of the request and basic submission details
• making the final document ready for print or PDF

Legal basis

The project is based on the Law of Ukraine “Про доступ до публічної інформації”.

Useful reference points in the law:

• Article 19 — request for information, form and requirements
  https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/2939-17#n179

• Article 20 — time limits for responding to requests
  https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/2939-17#n192

General text of the law:

• https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/2939-17#Text

What the project helps with

PUBINFO helps a user:

• understand that they may submit a request for public information
• prepare a cleaner and more structured request text
• choose a response format
• save a draft locally in the browser
• preview the final document before submission
• print the request or save it as PDF
• track the basic response deadline

Technologies used

This project uses:

• HTML5 — page structure
• CSS3 — visual styling, layout, print styles
• Vanilla JavaScript — form logic, templates, validation, live preview, local draft storage
• LocalStorage — saving draft data in the browser
• Print CSS — preparing a cleaner print / PDF version of the request
• Google Fonts (Inter) — typography

Current product direction

PUBINFO is being developed as a lightweight public-facing tool that combines:

• legal usefulness
• simple UX
• clear document preparation
• printable output
• a more trustworthy civic-tech interface

Notes

This project does not replace legal advice.
It is a practical interface for preparing and formatting a request based on publicly available legal rules.

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