Fixing Streets, Answering Questions and Holding Power to Account with Open Data
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MySociety provides tools for civic engagement, including FixMyStreet for reporting local issues like potholes, achieving a 50% fix rate on over 175,000 reports. TheyWorkForYou and Mzalendo enhance political transparency by tracking voting and attendance of officials, attracting around 2 million visitors annually. Alaveteli simplifies Freedom of Information requests to UK public bodies and archives all interactions, with over 1 million yearly visitors.
Fixing Streets, Answering Questions and Holding Power to Account with Open Data
- 1. mySocietyhello@mysociety.orgFixing streets, answering questions and holding power to account with Open Data
- 2. FixMyStreet.comNationwide tool to make it easy to report potholes, broken street lights etc175,000+ reports to date50% fix rateMakes everything publicOpen source and copied in many countries
- 3. TheyWorkForYou / MzalendoPolitical transparency based on clear data on basic democratic facts:How did they vote?What did they say?Did they ever show up?About 2m visitors a yearMzalendo is Kenyan version, in progress
- 4. AlaveteliMakes it ultra-easy to make FOIA requests to 3000 UK public bodiesBetter still, it archives all requests and responses, publicly and automaticallyOver 1m visitors/yearEasy to import to new countries
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