Hot on the heels of our last big announcement, we’re very happy to confirm our second keynote for TICTeC, The Impacts of Civic Technology conference 2024: Nick Mabey OBE. If you’d like to hea...
https://www.mysociety.org/2024/04/25/tictec-keynote-speaker-announcement-nick-mabey-obe/
Tl;dr: We’ve added lots of local council data to the Local Intelligence Hub. In February, we launched the Local Intelligence Hub, and today we’ve released a huge new update. We designed the...
https://www.mysociety.org/2024/04/25/were-putting-more-local-into-the-local-intelligence-hub/
If you value the work mySociety and TheyWorkForYou do, please consider whether you can make a donation. We have a good track record of making Parliament more open, provide essential tools to civi...
https://www.mysociety.org/2024/04/23/improving-the-focus-of-theyworkforyous-voting-summaries/
Canada differs from the UK in many ways: obviously it’s vastly bigger, extending across many more latitudes; its climate, nature and terrains vary hugely; its cities are more dispersed and dive...
Over Easter, some groups went missing in Parliament. No, not lost tourists: of the 722 All Party Parliamentary Groups registered in March, only 444 are left – a 39% decrease in the space of a m...
https://www.mysociety.org/2024/04/09/what-happened-to-all-the-appgs/
Lucie Bolton took the position of Climate Strategy Officer at Rother District Council in 2022. Since then, she’s found the Council Climate Action Scorecards project an invaluable support for he...
https://www.mysociety.org/2024/04/08/council-climate-action-scorecards-support-climate-officers/
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/
We’re excited to announce the first keynote speaker for our 2024 Impacts of Civic Technology Conference (TICTeC)! Join us on 12 and 13 June — in London or online — and you’ll hear from ...
https://www.mysociety.org/2024/03/25/tictec-keynote-speaker-announcement-maria-baron/
To reach the UK’s 2050 net zero target, all local authorities need to take serious action across all of their operations. But what exactly should they do, and in what order? To get the most out...
https://www.mysociety.org/2024/03/22/dont-be-afraid-to-copy/
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/