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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.
13th January 2022 by Alex Parsons
One of the things we want CAPE, the Climate Action Plan Explorer, to do is make useful comparisons between different councils, and help surface where councils are similar and might be able to learn from each other. The first go at this was a physical proximity tool, which highlighted neighbouring councils, but this can miss…
This Surgery is part of mySociety's TICTeC Labs programme, which aims to discuss and tackle some of the biggest challenges facing the global civic tech/digital democracy sector.Find…
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.
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.
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