Organisations all around the world run Freedom of Information sites based on our Alaveteli platform. There are also sites running on other codebases. Either way, we’re all working to the same g...
https://www.mysociety.org/2024/04/03/access-to-information-network-data-visualisation-show-and-tell/
Responses obtained from a widespread FOI project can be difficult to analyse, until they are sorted into neat datasets. This allows you to make valid comparisons, pull out accurate statistics and...
https://www.mysociety.org/2024/03/21/creating-datasets-from-foi-data/
…this is mySociety’s 20th anniversary Impact Report! This has been a very special year – mySociety’s 20th anniversary. So we haven’t just put together our usual review of the past twe...
https://www.mysociety.org/2023/12/13/this-is-not-just-any-impact-report/
The ways in which people and organisations have used mySociety’s services through the lifetime of the organisation have been impressive, inspiring and sometimes astonishing. So, to celebrate ou...
https://www.mysociety.org/2023/11/01/shortlist-announced-for-mysocietys-20th-anniversary-awards/
Here at WhatDoTheyKnow, mySociety’s service which publishes Freedom of Information requests and responses online, we care a lot about how transparent public authorities are. That being so, it�...
https://www.mysociety.org/2023/06/12/ever-more-transparency-for-alaveteli/
Great news from the Copenhagen Democracy Summit this week, where AskGov, the Access to Information website for Georgia, was recognised with an award for Democracy Tech. The civic tech organisatio...
https://www.mysociety.org/2023/05/22/askgov-wins-copenhagen-democracy-summit-tech-award/
At our Freedom of Information service WhatDoTheyKnow, when faced with requests to remove material, we operate on the principle of removing the minimum amount possible. Alaveteli, the codebase whi...
https://www.mysociety.org/2023/01/24/new-in-alaveteli-hiding-individual-attachments/
Alaveteli is our platform for running Freedom of Information websites — it underpins WhatDoTheyKnow as well as many other sites around the world. It’s made up of many interconnecting elements...
https://www.mysociety.org/2023/01/18/notes-giving-our-users-more-information/
We’re big on open source: much of the software we create at mySociety is freely available for anyone to use, and there are sites all over the world underpinned by our code. While we try to en...
Can you bring about more transparency with a simple map? Apparently yes – that’s what the Alaveteli site Transparencia.be have pulled off with their interactive map of Wallonia. This shows wh...
https://www.mysociety.org/2022/05/04/a-transparency-success-in-belgium/