20 years of mySociety

Our technology, research and data are used by individual citizens, journalists, and civil society in over 40 countries around the world.

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The climate crisis needs active citizens

There is no more urgent challenge than responding to the current climate emergency. mySociety’s priority is to give you the power to demand the change we need.

Our climate work

News

Latest posts

Introducing TheyWorkForYou Votes

19th May 2025 by Alex Parsons

Today we’re launching TheyWorkForYou Votes – our new vote information platform.  Our goal with this service is to create and support better analysis of decisions taken in the UK’s Parliaments. We want this service to both be directly helpful to the general public, and indirectly by providing new tools and data to specialists. We ran…

Diary

More events

Tackling the climate crisis with access to information rights

May
27

Join us for a one-hour webinar exploring how access to information can be a powerful tool in the fight against climate change.Sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1362732913829?aff=oddtdtcreatorFrom legal…

Public service from SocietyWorks

Through SocietyWorks we provide expertise to local government and the public sector, the profits of which are used to fund our charitable work through mySociety.

Built around the needs of councils and their residents, our complete suite of local authority services incorporates highways and environment reporting, waste management, FOI, licensing and more. SocietyWorks also provides a service discovery programme for local authorities, aimed at helping to scope out and refine services that citizens will want to use.

Find out more about SocietyWorks

Discover TICTeC

mySociety convenes the renowned TICTeC (The Impacts of Civic Technology) series, bringing together civic tech organisations, policymakers and the global research community to enable better sharing of technology, insights and experience.

Videos and supporting materials from all our previous TICTeC and TICTeC Local events are available on our website.

Explore TICTeC resources

Open research and data – free for everyone

Research

mySociety research site

mySociety’s original research contributes new knowledge and enables crucial evidence-based development of policy and practice around digital participation, transparency and accountability. Find what's available for open reuse in our research portal.

Make use of our research

Data

mySociety data site

The data underpinning our research and generated by many of our services is free for reuse via our data portal at data.mysociety.org. Many of our services have API access for bulk download of data and incorporation into other civic services.

Visit our data portal

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Your donations help keep our sites running

On-off or regular, large or small contributions, all help us in our mission to empower ordinary people via digital means. And every little helps – take at look at our donations page to see how.

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