Episode 1: August 2024

mySociety

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

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Well, hello and welcome to mySociety’s monthly round-up.

My name is Myf Nixon, Communications Manager at mySociety.

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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…)