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A behind-the-scenes look at how Fiquem Sabendo uses Brazil’s FOI law to unlock data and support investigative journalism. Maria Vitória Ramos, Co-founder and Director of Fiquem Sabendo, shares how the organisation prepares requests, processes government data, and supports journalists in turning information into impactful reporting. Fiquem Sabendo is a non-profit newsroom and data agency that uses Brazil’s access to information law to uncover and share government data with journalists and the public. Since its founding, the team has released over a thousand new public datasets and trained thousands of journalists and citizens to make effective FOI requests. They also publish the popular newsletter Don’t LAI to Me, bringing transparency stories to a wide audience. If you find this podcast valuable, please consider donating to help us keep making them. Music: Serge Pavkin Music (Pixabay licence) Transcript 0:00  Julia: We are joined by the wonderful Maria Vitória Ramos from Fiquem Sabendo in Brazil. Some of you may already know her from her fantastic presentation at TICTeC in London in 2024: I think it was a highlight for lots of people, including myself. 0:12  If you haven’t come across their work before, Fiquem Sabendo is a nonprofit newsroom and data agency that uses Brazil’s Freedom of Information laws to unlock public data and make it useful for journalists, civil society organisations and the public.  (more…)

Discover how three organisations are using crowdsourcing and Access to Information laws to uncover data, monitor public projects, and drive accountability. Access to Information (ATI) is the more internationally-recognised term for FOI or FOIA. Its laws make it possible to piece together insights from many different public authorities, creating a fuller picture of how decisions are made and resources are used. This session explores how ATI empowers communities, volunteers, and civil society groups to use information requests to assemble datasets, track public projects, and enhance accountability through collective inquiry. Hear from three projects that have turned transparency into a community effort with fantastic results! We’ve got fantastic speakers from across the globe: Nnenna Eze from PPDC Nigeria Marzena Błaszczyk from Citizens Network Watchdog Poland Stefan Wehrmeyer from FragDenStaat in Germany Definitions: MDA – Ministries, Departments, and Agencies DEX – Digital Employee Experience Credits: Music by HigherUniversalMan, Pixabay free usage licence. Transcript: 0:00  Julia: Welcome everybody. Thank you so much for joining us for today’s webinar, which is Networked auditors: crowdsourcing and community-led ATI.  0:06  My name is Julia Cushion. I’m the Policy and Advocacy Manager here at mySociety, and I’m really delighted to welcome you to this session, which is part of our Access to Information Community of Practice.  (more…)

    This recording is from a TICTeC gathering on the latest techniques to help civic and pro-democracy tech projects protect their services, data and users. Across the world, websites and apps that promote democratic transparency and citizen participation are experiencing more sophisticated cyber attacks. We hear some of the latest techniques to help civic and pro-democracy tech projects protect their services, data and users, covering specific internet freedom tools, how they’re being tested and integrated amongst pro-democracy actors globally, as well as the challenges of sustaining protection. Speakers Patricia Musomba, The Engine Room. Patricia is passionate about empowering at-risk communities to enhance their digital resilience through capacity building and tailored support. Patricia talks about The Engine Room’s Cybersecurity Assessment Tool (CAT), which is designed to measure the maturity, resiliency, and strength of an organisation’s cybersecurity efforts. Hui Hui Ooi, Advisor, Technology & Democracy at the International Republican Institute (IRI). Hui Hui shares lessons from IRI’s internet freedom user testing programme and how they could be integrated into the civic tech community. She also emphasises the importance of internet freedom tool developers working hand in hand with users at risk to conduct tool testing to ensure tool adoption and improve trust. Jocelyn Woolbright, Program Manager at Cloudflare Impact, and part of Cloudflare’s Project Galileo team. Since 2014, Project Galileo has been providing free cybersecurity to more than 3,000 at-risk websites from around the world, protecting them against attacks such as DDoS, web exploits, phishing, and automated bot traffic. Jocelyn discusses the full range of support provided and explain exactly how civic tech organisations can get involved and apply for this critical protection. Links The Engine Room’s Cyber CAT project CloudFlare’s Project Galileo TICTeC’s Democratic Transparency community of practice Find our podcasts useful? Please donate! Transcript 0:04  Gemma Moulder Hello everybody. I’m Gemma. I’m mySociety’s Events and Engagement Manager. And thank you for joining us today for this TICTeC community gathering. And thank you to NED for supporting TICTeC this year. (more…)

Imagine a world where every citizen automatically receives the government grants they’re entitled to, stays informed about public consultations, and can easily contribute feedback—feedback that they trust will genuinely shape policy decisions. Services like these could strengthen and transform democracies worldwide. But, should this be the reality we ought to seek? What are the opportunities and challenges? And how close are we to achieving this? At this TICTeC gathering, we heard from two insightful speakers: Richard Gevers, Head of Service Design and Delivery at the Digital Services Unit of The Presidency South Africa. Sanna-Kaisa Saloranta, Specialist in the Democratic Innovations programme at Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund. Sign up for our newsletter to be informed about future events, and find out more about TICTeC at tictec.mysociety.org. Appreciate mySociety’s work? Please do donate! Transcript: [00:04] Louise Crow: Welcome everyone. I’m Louise Crow. I’m Chief Executive of mySociety. Thank you so much for joining us today for this TICTeC community gathering: ‘From digital public infrastructure to democratic public infrastructure’. [00:20] Just as a brief reminder, TICTeC stands for The Impacts of Civic Technology. TICTeC started life as a conference, but since 2020 we’ve been running year round activities to try and connect people building using and researching technology to strengthen democracy and civic power, with the aim of helping us learn from each other and boost our collective impact. [00:44] So ahead of the global DPI summit next week, we thought this was a good time to talk about civic tech’s relationship to digital public infrastructure. What are we talking about when we say digital public infrastructure?  (more…)

TheyWorkForYou aims to improve the quality of UK democracy by making more and better information available to everyone. In previous updates, we’ve expanded coverage to all the UK’s parliaments and brought all the registers of interests together. Now we’re pulling in data from beyond Parliament to provide richer insights into your representatives. Alex and Julia share our new features: Committees and APPG memberships Signatures (Early Day Motions and open letters) Vote annotations Adding context to parliamentary debates Improved email alerts for political monitoring No intro this time: we’re plunging you straight into the audio from the event! Useful links: If you’d prefer to watch the video of this session, it’s on our YouTube channel. TheyWorkForYou is here, and TheyWorkForYou Votes is here. Donate! It helps us do more of this sort of work! Thank you! Subscribe to our updates here (make sure ‘Democracy & Parliaments’ is ticked if that’s what you’re interested in). Julia mentions Local Intelligence Hub, which you can play with here. Alex mentions a video about how other parliamentary websites get audiences in an age when search engines have become less useful: it’s this one – also available as a podcast here. Transcript 00:00 Julia Cushion Thanks so much for coming along to this little update. We try and do these every so often.  00:03 You might have come to our one a few months ago, we were talking about TheyWorkForYou Votes, whereas today, we’re telling you about some of the broader stuff we’ve been up to on TheyWorkForYou. We’re calling it “A richer view of Parliament.” (more…)

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 Mária Žuffová, European University Institute Sign up for updates and we’ll let you know when the next events come up. Don’t forget to check the box ‘Conferences and events’ if you want to know about every event we put on, and/or any of the other topics you have an interest in. Music: Grand_Project from Pixabay Image: Nick Fewings Transcript Myf Nixon 0:00 Hello again. Today we’re sharing our latest online webinar, which was called “Putting transparency to the test: evaluating FOI in practice”. Myf Nixon 0:10 So the idea here was to look at how Freedom of Information is supposed to work on paper, and how it actually works when it comes into contact with the real world. (more…)

Note: This is the audio version of an online event, in which a couple of the speakers refer to visual elements. If you’d like to see the websites, etc, that they mention, please see the video of the event at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvJVCgBprwY. Details: Across the world, there are many websites and apps that help citizens to better understand how their democracies work, and what their elected representatives are doing on their behalf. Historically, one of the main ways these tools could measure their impact was by tracking their visitor numbers and page views via website analytics tools. However, across the world, civic and pro-democracy tech projects are finding that citizens can’t, or no longer, directly visit their websites and apps. They’re either restricted by data packages that only allow them to use social media sites, or are finding out information via AI chatbots or social media, rather than directly visiting sites and apps. This shift can make it harder than ever to measure the reach and impact of pro-democracy projects and tools. Traditional website analytics no longer tell the full story, leaving some projects struggling to demonstrate their effectiveness—and, as a result, to secure the funding needed to sustain vital democratic services. At this TICTeC gathering, we hear directly from practitioners running civic and pro-democracy tech initiatives from across the world. They share the strategies they’re using to reach people where they are, ensure their services remain accessible and relevant, and find new ways to track impact in this changing digital landscape. Ana Arevadze from ForSet in Georgia talks about their work with social media influencers to inform and educate Georgian youth on voting and democratic information. Ufuoma Nnamdi-Udeh from Enough is Enough Nigeria shares how they have leveraged social media, chatbots, and messaging services through their ShineYourEye platform to provide citizens with accurate democratic information and improve access to elected representatives. Joseph Tahinduka from ParliamentWatch Uganda speaks about working with infomediaries such as local radio and journalists to get parliamentary information to a wider audience, as well as their usage of social media and messaging apps. More information This is a TICTEC Communities of Practice session. Find out more about TICTeC at https://tictec.mysociety.org/. Sign up for TICTeC updates at https://tictec.mysociety.org/events/ or subscribe to updates about all mySoicety activities by telling us what you’re interested in at http://eepurl.com/gOEVFj. Transcript Alex Parsons 0:01 Hi everyone. I’m Alex Parsons. Alex Parsons 0:02 I’m the Democracy Lead and senior researcher at mySociety. Thank you for joining us here for this TICTeC community gathering. (more…)

AI and automated decision-making technologies are increasingly being used in government, and due to their opaque nature, it’s vital that we bring more transparency to their workings. In this event, three researchers and civil society actors talk about how they have used Freedom of Information to do just that. You’ll hear from Morgan Currie from the University of Edinburgh; Gabriel Geiger of Lighthouse Reports, and Jake Hurfurt from Big Brother Watch. Learn what concerns them about this new age of automated decision-making; the practical tips and techniques they’ve used to bring hidden algorithms to light; and what needs to change in our laws as a matter of urgency. — More information Blog post, with links to the video and slides Morgan Currie’s research (with Alli Spring): Algorithmic Transparency in the UK Lighthouse Reports’ Suspicion Machines, as presented by Gabriel Geiger Big Brother Watch’s report on the ‘error-riddled AI tool to be used by the Home Office’. Find out more about the Access to Information Network Transcript Louise Crow 0:03 Hello, everyone, welcome. I’m Louise Crow, Chief Executive mySociety. Louise Crow 0:08 Thank you for joining us for this one hour session on how Access to Information can help us understand AI decision making in government. (more…)

New launch, new launch! We could have just talked about our new votes platform, but it was much more interesting to also explore a bit of history, and research into how MPs and the public use TheyWorkForYou. So, together with Dr Ben Worthy, Alex and Julia, that’s what we did. Further information Find the TheyWorkForYou Votes platform here. Here’s a blog post about its launch. And here’s the same launch event that you hear in this episode of the podcast, only in video form. If you’d like to help us do more of this kind of work, please donate to mySociety. Sign up for the Repowering Democracy newsletter. How to help us gather information on how MPs are voting on the End of Life Bill. Ben’s research can be found on his website Who’s Watching Westminster. Transcript Speaker 1 0:00 Hello again. I’m Myf, Communications Manager at mySociety. We recently launched a new vote information platform, votes.theyworkforyou.com, and this is the first step towards making it much easier to understand the context around how your own MP voted – and also, if you’re a specialist, you’ll find lots of new tools and data that you can use. Myf Nixon 0:23 We had an online launch event for this, and you can listen to that right now. As well as Alex getting into the more technical details, we’ll first of all hear Julia talking about some of the milestones in TheyWorkForYou’s history, and Dr Ben Worthy sharing some of his fascinating research on how MPs and the general public have, through history, used voting records. Myf Nixon 0:47 I’ll put the links in our show notes to everything that gets mentioned in the recording. And also, if you’d rather watch this than listen to it, you can do just that on the mySociety site. So again, I’ll make sure that that link is in the show notes. (more…)

On March 4, we launched new data on TheyWorkForYou, making MPs’ financial interests easier for everyone to access and understand. This wasn’t an easy undertaking! To explain the difficulties we encountered, and the recommendations we have for the way MPs declare their interests, we also put out a report. At our launch event, we chatted through the challenges and our recommendations, together with Rose Whiffen of Transparency International, and Chris Cook from the Financial Times. Links 📄Our report, Beyond Transparency. 🙏Donate to mySociety, so we can do more of this kind of work. 📺Rather watch this as a video instead of a podcast?   Transcript Myf Nixon 0:01 Hi, Myf here, Communications Manager from mySociety. At the beginning of March, we launched the findings from our WhoFundsThem project. And you know what? This was a major undertaking for mySociety. (more…)

It’s March 4 2025, and we’re releasing a bunch of new data on TheyWorkForYou, around each MPs’ financial interests: that’s whether they have second jobs, what donations helped them campaign ahead of the general election, and whether they’ve received gifts such as Taylor Swift tickets. In the course of assembling this data — with the help of our brilliant team of volunteers — we’ve come to understand exactly what the problems with the current system of reporting are. If you’re seeing this on the morning of release, we’ll also be launching a report at 1pm today, and you’re welcome to join us. (Don’t worry if you’re too late; we’ll be sharing the video afterwards. Just make sure you’re signed up for our newsletter to be alerted when it’s available). Don’t forget to check out your own MP, to see who funds them, on TheyWorkForYou.com. And if you have any questions about this project, the data, or MPs’ financial interests in general, send them to us at whofundsthem@mysociety.org. If you appreciate this type of work, please help us do more of it by making a one-off (or even better, a regular) donation. Thank you! Transcript [0:00] Julia: If you’ve ever wondered if your MP has a second job, what donations they received, or if they were one of the ones that got a free Taylor Swift ticket, we’ve got the answers for you. (more…)

In this super-short episode, we look at three recent examples of how the Council Climate Action Scorecards are bringing measurable change. The Scorecards are a joint project between mySociety and Climate Emergency UK, and you can visit them at councilclimatescorecards.uk. Here are the three blog posts where you can find more details about all of these examples: Cotswold District Council working together with residents (and if you’re local, find details of how to get involved too) Scorecards spark carbon literacy training at South Cambs council Gedling Borough Council appreciate the gravitas the Scorecards bring If you value the work we do at mySociety, please donate. Transcript 0:00 [Myf:] I’m not really a data person. I’m a Communications Manager, right? So my currency is words and pictures, but my colleagues at mySociety are real data people. (more…)

In our second video interviewing subjects of the book Our City: Community Activism in Bristol, we talk to journalist Joe Banks, who was able to find a real anomaly in the council’s approach to developing the oldest part of the city. He did this both by looking at information other people had requested, and putting in his own Freedom of Information requests, on mySociety’s WhatDoTheyKnow website. Details of the book can be found on the Tangent Books website. You can read lots more about Joe’s investigation into St Mary Le Port, and other local topics, on his website. If you value the work we do at mySociety, please donate. Transcript 0:05 Myf: I’m Myfanwy Nixon, communications manager at mySociety. We’ve been talking to some of the people featured in this book: Our City, community activism in Bristol, edited by Suzanne Audrey. (more…)

We Love Stoke Lodge is a campaign group in Bristol, and the subject of one of the chapters of the book Our City, edited by Suzanne Audrey. Many of the campaigns featured in the book used WhatDoTheyKnow and FOI to uncover vital information to support their campaigns. Hear Helen Powell describe the group’s experiences of campaigning to save a beloved piece of land for public use, and what they discovered thanks to FOI. If you value the work we do at mySociety, please donate. Transcript 0:04 Myf: I’m Myfanwy Nixon. I’m Communications and Marketing Manager at mySociety. 0:09 Earlier this year, we found out about this book Our City, edited by Suzanne Audrey. Our City tells the story of a number of different campaign groups in Bristol who were all working to make change, and Suzanne got in touch with us, because lots of those groups, when you read their stories, they had used WhatDoTheyKnow, our Freedom of Information service, to help them with their campaigns. 0:33 We thought it would be really nice if we could sit down and talk to some of those people. We’ve spoken to a number of them, and all of their stories are so interesting. 0:41 In this first one, I talked to Helen Powell of a campaign called We Love Stoke Lodge. And Helen had so many interesting things to say, both about Freedom of Information and about campaigning in general. 0:54 Helen: There is so much that we would not know if it weren’t or being able to make Freedom of Information requests. 1:00 My name is Helen Powell, and I am one of the people involved with We Love Stoke Lodge in Bristol. Stoke Lodge itself is a 23 acre piece of parkland, open space, lots of big mature veteran trees on it, and so on. And it wraps around a grade two listed building, which is Stoke Lodge house, but the parkland has for some years been laid out as playing fields. 1:26 Since 2000 it’s been used by Cotham School, which is a school about three miles away.  1:30 We know the people and the stories that tie them to the land, people who have lived in these houses around the field for 40 years: they taught their children to ride bikes and fly kites and play football.  1:41 We know people who learned to walk there again after a stroke. One of my close friends who lost her baby, and she sat under one of the big oak trees on the field, you know, through the time of grieving over that.  1:52 You know, there are so many people who’ve got a really powerful human connection to the land, and it’s just such a sort of core part of the community that allowing somebody else to come in and just kind of swipe it for their own purposes is just not something that the community is prepared to accept.  2:14 The correspondence that we discovered under FOI was the school asking the council to remove curtilage status from the land, which would mean that it could put up a fence without asking anybody, without going through any planning process, ultimately, without even having to get landlord consent.  2:34 For decades, the land had been treated as having curtilage status. Suddenly, it was removed after the school asked for that to happen. Just we all feel this is so wrong.  2:43 You know, the school had been using the field since 2000, got a lease on the basis that it was going to carry on using it in the same way. 2:54 Putting the fence up around the whole 23 acres in the way that they did was basically privatising what is public land. You know, taking it away from the community. You know, it’s not a small thing to say.  3:06 You know, the school wants to be able to have a secure playing field while it’s doing PE  —  this is not that. This was the school locking it 24/7, and suddenly what had been important open space for the community was not available. 3:21 I think for the school, the land is a commodity. They see it as an asset that they could develop, they could commercialise, and so on.  3:27 We saw somebody else had made a request and, “Oh, hang on, if she can ask for that, we could ask for this and that!”. So, yes, it was all very much a learning curve.  3:41 I had a look back at my list of requests on WhatDoTheyKnow, and you can see at the start, we didn’t necessarily know the rules about, you know, cost constraints, for example. 3:52 So being definite about what period you needed, not making it a ridiculously wide request, but being as specific as you could be, while still getting the information that you were targeting.  4:07 So you can see us sort of evolving, how good we were at making requests, because that itself is a bit of an art form: phrasing it so that you don’t allow loopholes that don’t allow for interpretation of the request in in a strange way. But also, you know, try trying to make it broad enough for what you want, but not so broad that the authority has a reason to refuse it.  4:38 There was another person, a completely other third party who asked for some information about different playing fields, and the council turned that down as being a vexatious request that was to do with Stoke Lodge. That got into Private Eye. The next request was mine, and the council turned it down on the basis that while the other person might not have been vexatious, I certainly was vexatious.  5:01 You know, the ways in which I’d been vexatious included, remarkably, things like asking questions at full council, which was just an exercise of democratic accountability!  5:10 That went off to the Information Commissioner. The Information Commissioner said I wasn’t vexatious either, and that that information should be released.  5:18 None of this was for frivolous reasons. The council has really latched on to this idea of as being a campaign, but we’re not a campaign against the council. We’re not seeking to harass or burden it. We’re a campaign to protect parkland.  5:33 They may be vexed by the fact that we’re asking a question, but that doesn’t make us vexatious. When we started, and parts of this process, what we were trying to do is in our relationships with, say, the planning team, we were trying to say to them, “Look, you’ve got a large body of very upset people here. If we just have that relationship where we’re communicating with you, where you give us information, then we can pass that on, and we can calm the situation. We can sort of be helpful like that.” 6:00 And I think on a wider scale, that goes for the council as a whole, transparency is good for both sides, because it means that there is greater cultivation of trust. People are more prepared to work in tandem, and I think it’s much more helpful if we can do that.  6:16 And the point is just that sometimes the council will do something that upsets a lot of people, and if a lot of people then start complaining and asking for information, the council gets very defensive and says, “We can’t cope. You must all be vexatious. Go away. We’re not telling you anything.” 6:32 Whereas, actually, if you have a channel of communication and you say, “OK, you know, we’re releasing this information to you so you can see how we handled this. We believe we did everything right, but you have a look at it”  —  that is a much healthier way to move forward. And actually would, I think, dramatically cut down the number of requests that they get.  6:53 It has been invaluable. And actually, the particular thing about making those requests via WhatDoTheyKnow is that you can search, and you can see other people’s requests as well. And that also has been very useful. There’s a lot of information to be gained there just by seeing what else is coming out. So it has been fantastically useful.  7:13 We would not be where we are today without the ability to make those requests. So, most appreciative of WhatDoTheyKnow. It has been an incredible resource. 7:23 Myf: And we just we love to see it being used in really good ways. So thank you again.

mySociety staffers Zarino, Gemma and Myf discuss the TICTeC Session “Fostering inclusive approaches to technological innovations for climate action”, in which Pryou Chung of East West Management Institute gave real life examples of how seemingly positive climate initiatives can go badly wrong when financial structures and baked in biases provide an incentive to overlook indigenous people. Watch Pryou’s presentation for yourself here. If you value the work we do at mySociety, please donate.   Transcript 0:05 Myf: I’m Myf, I’m Communications Manager at mySociety. Zarino: I’m Zarino, I’m the Climate Programme Lead at mySociety. Gemma: I’m Gemma, I’m mySociety’s Events and Engagement Manager. (more…)

TICTeC, the Impacts of Civic Technology Conference from mySociety, runs for just two days – but those two days are packed with civic tech practitioners sharing insights and experience from projects along the world. We share most of the sessions as videos on our YouTube channel, and to help you decide what to watch first, we’ve asked mySociety staff to pick their favourites and chat about what they found so interesting. In this episode, Alice, Gemma and Myf discuss “Have you empirically improved transparency and accountability?” from Sean Russell of OpenUp South Africa. (more…)

We’ve got updates from Julia on this Parliament’s first Register of Financial interests, showing what second jobs and gifts, etc, MPs have declared; and on the startlingly diminished list of All Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs). Meanwhile, Gareth tells us how to get a discount on WhatDoTheyKnow Pro, and we hear from AccessInfo about a new award – the winner will be invited to Madrid to present their work. Alongside all of that, Myf explains how a WhatDoTheyKnow user harnessed the power of Reddit to verify the responses they were receiving to their FOI requests. Enjoy! Links Blog post on the Register of Financial Interests spreadsheet; and more details on what it contains Blog post about Reddit, WhatDoTheyKnow, and Physician Associates Blog post on the diminishing number of APPGs AccessInfo Impact Awards Full details on how to get a discount on WhatDoTheyKnow Pro by linking to your outcomes Our TikTok account Our Bluesky account Music: Chafftop by Blue Dot Sessions. Transcript [0:04] Myf: Hello. Thank you very much for tuning in.  [0:07] This is our second monthly collection of news and updates from mySociety, and my name is Myf Nixon. I’m mySociety’s Communications Manager.  [0:15] This month, I’m going to share with you five pieces of news — two from our democracy work, and three from our transparency side. (more…)

It’s our first ever podcast at mySociety! Heeey how about that? Myf, our Communications Manager, runs you through all the stuff we’ve been doing at mySociety over the last month. It’s amazing what we manage to fit into just 30 days: you’ll hear about a meeting of Freedom of Information practitioners from around Europe; our new (and evolving) policy on the use of AI; a chat with someone who used the Climate Scorecards tool to springboard into further climate action… oh, and there’s just the small matter of the General Election here in the UK, which involved some crafty tweaking behind the scenes of our sites TheyWorkForYou and WriteToThem. Links TICTeC videos on YouTube TICTeC photos on Flickr Browse the TICTeC 2024 schedule, find slides etc Matthew’s post on updating TheyWorkForYou on election night Sign up to get an email whenever your MP speaks or votes Democracy resources and our future plans in Alex’s post Local Intelligence Hub lets you access and play with data around your constituency Matt Stempeck’s summary of the Access to Information meetup Our summary of Matt’s summary of the meetup Updates from all those ATI projects around Europe New in Alaveteli: importing & presenting blog posts; request categories and exploring csvs in Datasette Fiona Dyer on how volunteering for Scorecards upped her climate action Where to sign up if you fancy volunteering as well mySociety’s approach to AI Contact us on hello [at] mysociety.org if you have any questions or feedback. Music: Chafftop by Blue Dot Sessions. Transcript 0:00 Well, hello and welcome to mySociety’s monthly round-up. My name is Myf Nixon, Communications Manager at mySociety. 0:11 This is part of an experiment that we’re currently running where we’re trying to talk about our work in new formats, to see if that makes it easier for you to keep up with our news. (more…)