Back in January 2012, I wrote a blog post to mark a milestone: WhatDoTheyKnow, our Freedom of Information site, had processed 100,000 requests. Just three years later, that number now stands at 250,000. That represents a quarter of a million requests for information that have been processed through the site, and published for anyone to…

Everyone at mySociety is quite bubbling with excitement at the news that we’re today officially launching FixMyTransport.com , mySociety’s first new core charitable website since WhatDoTheyKnow launched in 2008. We’ve never before launched a site that took so much work to build, or that contained so much data. What is it for? FixMyTransport has two goals –…

According to some, today is the day when the world is going to be saved. Not sure if I agree with that, but recognise that the inauguration of Barack Obama is of some importance :-)). And, naturally, so is the work carried out by mysociety.org. I therefore thought today would be a good time to…

In our latest online webinar, we convened three experts to speak around the topic of how Freedom of Information works in practice – in other words, how does the law work when it comes into contact with the real world? Speakers were: Toby Mendel, Centre for Law and Democracy Giovanni Esposito, Université Libre de Bruxelles…

We launched WhatDoTheyKnow with two goals: to make Freedom of Information more accessible to all; and to provide a free public archive of all the information that is released as a result. Today, 17 years later, those goals still guide us, and there’s more we can do towards them every day. Most recently, we’ve developed…

Transforming and publishing official Parliamentary transcripts is one of the key activities of parliamentary monitoring organisations (PMOs)  — in our case, that means running our website TheyWorkForYou, but there are many organisations around the world doing the same for their own parliaments.  Building on top of transcripts means that PMOs can focus their time on…

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Yesterday we shared the news that WhatDoTheyKnow has processed its millionth public request.  The site’s been around since 2008, nearly as long as the UK’s right to information, and we think it’s fair to say that we’ve had some impact on the world during that time. Let’s go back, just for a moment, to 2006…

Read more about our 20th anniversary event Thank you for joining us to celebrate mySociety’s 20th anniversary. It’s brilliant to be able to toast 20 years of using data and digital tools to empower people.   One of my favourite descriptions of our work was written a few years ago by the journalist Zoe Williams.…

We recently ran a survey, asking the public to tell us how they’ve used our Freedom of Information site, WhatDoTheyKnow.  To get people thinking, we put a number of prompts on social media: we asked journalists to tell us what stories they’ve uncovered through the site; and campaigners and activists to tell us how they’ve…