The latest news from MySociety.org

  • Neighbourhood Fix-It launches
    • Neighbourhood Fix-It makes it as easy as possible for citizens across the UK to report local problems like fly tipping, broken lights, graffiti etc, whilst opening the problems up to browsing and public discussion of solutions. The problem tackled Councils across the UK do an excellent job of fixing local problems when they’re reported by citizens. However, [...]

  • RIP Chris Lightfoot - 1978 to 2007
    • It is with great sadness that I must report the death of Chris Lightfoot, mySociety?s first developer and a good friend to all of us. He was found by friends at his flat on February 11th. The main announcement can be read in this post on his blog. Chris was perhaps the pre-eminent example so far [...]

  • Omidyar Network to fund PledgeBank outreach in the USA
    • We’re delighted to announce that mySociety has been generously awarded $100,000 by Omidyar Network, a mission-based investment group committed to enabling individual self-empowerment. The purpose of the investment, our largest to date from a philanthropic source, is to spread the use of PledgeBank.com to a host of community and grassroots groups in the US. Omidyar Network [...]

  • Funding for Freedom of Information
    • Some super news just in. mySociety has been awarded funding by the JRSST Charitable Trust to build our Freedom of Information Filer and Archive(FOIFA), the winner of our 2006 call for proposals. This means that we will be able to start work relatively early in the New Year. At £24,500 this is our largest ever donation [...]

  • HearFromYourMP turns 1
    • Today is the first anniversary of the launch of HearFromYourMP.com. Whilst a bit lower profile than some of our other sites, being driven mainly by email, HearFromYourMP has had a very pleasing first year. Not only have over 25,000 people signed up across the UK, but perhaps more remarkably 84 MPs have used the service [...]

  • No10 petitions system goes live
    • I’m very pleased to announce that the petitions system we’ve built for 10 Downing Street has gone live today. I’m very grateful for the hard and often inspired work put into this by Chris Lightfoot and Matthew Somerville, as well as the civil servants who have helped to build a petitions system which I believe is [...]

  • Event to discuss TheyWorkForYou in Parliament Tomorrow
    • We’re holding an event in Portcullis House, Parliament tomorrow evening, Tuesday 7th November, to discuss the issue of TheyWorkForYou.com influencing the behaviour of MPs. We’ve just been moved to a slightly larger room than planned, so we’re no longer sold out. If you’d like to come, please email us at team@mysociety.org so we can put your [...]

  • The mySociety Call for Proposals: The winner and runners up
    • mySociety is pleased to announce the winner of our 2006 call for proposals, plus our thoughts on the best runners up, and various other lessons. Winner Our winner, and the next major site we are planning to build is the Freedom of Information Filer and Archive; a searchable, readable, googlable user-created archive of FOI requests and their [...]

  • New Statesman New Media Awards 2006
    • At the ceremony last night, mySociety amazingly managed to pick up two awards, the Contribution to Civic Society Award for WriteToThem, and the Advocacy Award for PledgeBank. I’ve put them next to last year’s award for TheyWorkForYou; not sure we can keep the pace up for next year! ;-) Thank you to everyone involved with the evening, [...]

  • What are your top three ideas from the call for proposals?
    • The mySociety call for proposals closed a few weeks ago. We’d love to know what you thought were the top three best proposals, or, if you don’t like any of them that much, the best ideas buried within the proposals. So, please leave your thoughts in comments on this post, preferably arranged as a top 3. [...]