mySociety: Open democracy, open source

Just finished this piece for Heise UK on mySociety the organisation behind site’s such as Theyworkforyou which provides tools for tracking what your MP is up to:

A group of free and open source enthusiasts are challenging the UK government to use the internet to its full potential

About a quarter of one percent. That’s the extent to which Tom Steinberg, director and co-founder of mySociety.org thinks the UK government has managed to embrace the potential of the Internet to re-shape democracy as we currently understand it.

For the full article go to Heise UK

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