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Modernising the House of Commons and stand-in MPs

Modernising the House of Commons and stand-in MPs

The new House of Commons Modernisation Committee has made a call for submissions to reform House of Commons procedures, standards and working practices. We’re going to make a submission to the Committee, focused around a set of practical fixes. But there are also bigger issues that will take long

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Democracy month notes: October 2024

Democracy month notes: October 2024

Ok, doing these regularly fell apart at *about* when the election happened - but let’s get back on track! WhoFundsThem On the WhoFundsThem work, last week we inducted the 50 volunteers who are going to answer 32 questions for 650 MPs. We’re using the crowdsourcing software we developed for the Cou

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mySociety's approach to AI

mySociety's approach to AI

We’re making our internal AI Framework public as a way of being transparent about the kind of questions we’re asking ourselves about using AI in mySociety's tools and services.xa0

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How we improved CAPE this year

How we improved CAPE this year

CAPE is our data-packed website that makes it easier for everyone to track and improve local action on climate change, built in collaboration with Climate Emergency UK. When CAPE launched, it was basically a list of councils' climate action plans — but we've continued to make regular improvement

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Public FOI

Public FOI

mySociety report exploring WhatDoTheyKnow statistics for central government

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Dog Fouling and FixMyStreet

Dog Fouling and FixMyStreet

mySociety paper looking at current patterns of reporting of dog fouling to local authorities, and the history of this as a social problem.

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