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

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CE UK and mySociety are using people power and Freedom of Information to bring transparency to local climate action

Brighton council housing - a redbrick terrace against a blue sky. Photo by Myf Nixon

27th September 2023 by Alex Parsons

A story in this week’s Financial Times [paywalled] has brought the EPC ratings of council-owned properties into the public conversation. This story was based on data obtained through FOI requests as part of the Council Climate Action Scorecards project, which we’ve been working on in partnership with Climate Emergency UK (CE UK). What you can…

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Net Zero Festival

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Hosted by BusinessGreen, the UK’s leading green business media brand and a source of news and analysis for the green business community that reaches over…

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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