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Using Access to Information to support social change
December 2023
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TheyWorkForYou provides essential services for civil society — and beyond
August 2023
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It should be easier for MPs to vote
August 2023
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Learning from the way people use TheyWorkForYou
August 2023
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What do we need to know to judge our representatives?
August 2023
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Giving more power to Parliament helps MPs keep their promises to us
August 2023
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Guest post: Does watching MPs make them behave better?
August 2023
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TheyWorkForYou, now with added Senedd
August 2023
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Mapping the online Access To Information network in Europe
June 2023
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Electoral Administration and Reform
February 2023
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FOI Reform in Scotland
February 2023
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Unlocking the value of fragmented public data
February 2023
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Improving energy efficiency in the private rented sector
February 2023
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Prioritising FOI complaints
November 2022
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Exploring information about Freedom of Information in the UK
November 2022
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Local authority and Westminster constituency deprivation datasets
November 2022
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Unified UK measures of rurality and deprivation
November 2022
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What are environmental information requests and how do they differ in Scotland?
November 2022
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FOI and appeals to the regulator
November 2022
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Categorising local government services for emissions reduction
November 2022
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How many people use Freedom of Information? The numbers blog post
November 2022
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Party voting instructions should be public
November 2022
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New in CAPE: Five different ways of finding similar councils
November 2022
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Network Rail: how accounting definitions of control can expand FOI/EIR coverage
November 2022
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What do people find useful about TheyWorkForYou Alerts?
November 2022
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Dog fouling and potholes
October 2022
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Data sharing for climate campaign organisations and communities
September 2022
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Fair transition and the world of work
July 2022
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mySociety response to “Call for Evidence: Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation”
July 2022
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Access to nature as a gateway to local climate action
June 2022
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Can we improve energy efficiency in the private rented sector?
May 2022
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Exploring conditional commitment services around home energy
May 2022
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Improving oversight of Access to Information
April 2022
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Reducing local authority emissions through procurement
April 2022
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Joining up
April 2022
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Freedom of Information is good, and stops bad things happening
February 2022
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Developing a research commissioning process
January 2022
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mySociety Response to "Data: A new direction"
November 2021
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Clearing House
October 2021
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Reforming FOI
April 2021
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FOI Monitor
April 2021
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Council climate action plans: Discovery and prototyping report
March 2021
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Participation vs representation: Councillor attitudes towards citizen engagement
February 2021
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Do photos help resolution of FixMyStreet reports?
November 2020
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How to run a citizens' assembly
June 2020
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Building a sustainable data ecosystem around community assets in England
May 2020
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Proxy voting: review of pilot arrangements
April 2020
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Can you believe we’ve reached Peak Pothole Day already?
February 2020
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Who uses WhatDoTheyKnow?
February 2020
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When people report issues on FixMyStreet
January 2020
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Assessing success in Civic Tech: Measures of deprivation and WriteToThem
October 2019
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How do different forms of deprivation affect FixMyStreet reports?
October 2019
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How men and women use FixMyStreet differently
October 2019
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Response to the Select Committee on Democracy and Digital Technologies
September 2019
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Digital tools for democratic participation
September 2019
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FixMyBlock: issue reporting in tower blocks (Alpha Report)
September 2019
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Understanding what makes an area different
August 2019
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Data Explorer
August 2019
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What's a neighbourhood?
August 2019
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Service Bundles
August 2019
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Super contributors and power laws
August 2019
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The state of African Legal Information Institutes
August 2019
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Understanding the role of councillors in local participation
July 2019
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Citizens' Assembly Websites: Practical Guidance
July 2019
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National Data Stategy
July 2019
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Public FOI
July 2019
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Validating gendered reporting behaviour on FixMyStreet.com
June 2019
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Digital Tools for Citizens Assemblies
June 2019
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FixMyBlock: issue reporting in tower blocks (Discovery Findings)
June 2019
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For digital tools to have a positive impact, environment matters
May 2019
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Government support is a key factor for civic technology
May 2019
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Better case management of FOI and SARs: Benefits cases
April 2019
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How Freedom of Information is administered in local government
April 2019
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Geospatial Commission call for evidence
April 2019
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Better case management of FOI and SARs: Research findings
April 2019
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Better case management of FOI and SARs: Prototyping and testing report
April 2019
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Understanding Freedom of Information in local government
April 2019
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Freedom of Information in Local Government
April 2019
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The State of Digital Public Engagement
February 2019
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Why it is essential we design the right digital democracy tools to suit local conditions
January 2019
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FixMyStreet: The geography of citizen reporting
December 2018
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Skipping Ahead to the Good Part
December 2018
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Parliament and the people
November 2018
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When people decide whether to write to their MP, does the MP’s gender matter?
October 2018
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Elite Capture and Co-optation in participatory budgeting in Mexico City
August 2018
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Legislative Role Models
August 2018
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Party Balance
July 2018
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Did they write back?
May 2018
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Voting by Proxy
March 2018
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Hackney information requests: Prototype
March 2018
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Hackney information requests: Research
March 2018
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Embracing Digitisation
March 2018
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FOI Code of Practice
February 2018
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Participatory Budgeting
January 2018
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WhatDoTheyKnow and Central Government FOI
November 2017
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Citizenship & Civic Engagement
October 2017
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Crowdsourcing Subjective Perceptions of Neighbourhood Disorder
September 2017
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The design of civic technology
July 2017
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Civic Tech Cities
May 2017
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Dog Fouling and FixMyStreet
April 2017
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Measuring Emotion in Parliamentary Debates with Automated Textual Analysis
December 2016
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FixMyStreet: Why do some areas report more than others?
November 2016
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What Do We Know about the EU Referendum?
October 2016
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ICT and Citizen Efficacy
August 2016
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InfoLib’s Impact
August 2016
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What People Want To Know on WhatDoTheyKnow
May 2016
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Do authorities respond faster by email or through an FOI website?
May 2016
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Developing transparency through digital means
May 2016
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Submission to the Independent Commission on Freedom of Information
November 2015
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Understanding TheyWorkForYou’s Users
November 2015
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Novel online approaches to citizen engagement
November 2015
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Who Benefits From Civic Technology?
October 2015
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The Effect of Government Responsiveness on Future Political Participation
February 2015
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In the digital era, political activism can be individual as well as collective
December 2014
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The Third Sector and Online Citizen Empowerment: the Case of mySociety
November 2014
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Research into mySociety’s online Freedom of Information platform, Alaveteli
November 2014
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Parliament’s Online Services
April 2014
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Design Thinking in Cape Town
March 2013
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Analysis of users and usage for WriteToThem.com
May 2011
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Analysis of users and usage for TheyWorkForYou.com
May 2011
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