TomSteinberg

Tom is the founder of mySociety. He can be contacted at tom@mySociety.org.

Tom is also someone who can never find the last email he send with "a few words of about who you are". So in a desperate attempt to prevent yet another fruitless rummage through his email, here's some biographical text:

"Tom Steinberg is the founder and director of mySociety, a charitable body that runs many of the best-known democracy websites in the UK, from WriteToThem.com, to PledgeBank.com to the volunteer-founded TheyWorkForYou.com to the No10 petitions website. mySociety's missions are to build websites which give people simple, tangible benefits in the democratic and community aspects of their lives, and which teach the public and voluntary sector how they can use technology better to help citizens.

By trade Tom was a policy analyst and general 'wonk' who mainly cut his teeth at the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit.

His most recent publication is The Power of Information review, co authored with Ed Mayo and the Strategy Unit.

I look a bit like this: . Here's a big version for printing

Tom Doesn't like:

A world in which the liklihood of an issue being acted on depends on how well it flukes a position in the news cycle.

The current notion of 'a public debate', and suspects it is largely synonymous with "an issue on which at least one columnist from each national newspaper has vented their prejudices".

Gerrymandering, earmarks and un-capped electoral spending.