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Tag Archives: mysociety
FixMyStreet on DirectGov!
Tom Watson reports via Twitter that MySociety’s FixMyStreet is now embedded in DirectGov. On the page in question, a boxout gives you the option of reporting a problem via FixMyStreet rather than through the usual route of DirectGov linking you … Continue reading
5 years of MySociety
I had an enjoyable time at the MySociety shindig last night at The Hub in King’s Cross. There were lots of cool people there, and I got the chance to bend people’s ears about digital mentors, which was fun for … Continue reading
Power of Information Task Force
Tom Watson posted up his speech announcing the Power of Information Task Force on his blog yesterday and it contained some really good stuff. I guess that those who want to can snicker about the notion of creating a task … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, collaboration, Communities, Government IT
Tagged collaboration, diabetes, mysociety, power of information, tom watson
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Google launches UK politics site
Completely unrelated to the Google UK-hosted barcampukgovweb, I’m sure, but Google have launched a dedicated UK politics site, with lots of UK politics related widgets for your iGoogle page, and a YouTube channel. One of the widgets available is based … Continue reading
GroupsNearYou.com
Richard Pope has been working on a new social website for MySociety, called GroupsNearYou.com. Here’s how he explains it on his blog: For all the talk of social networking people forget that for a whole host of internet users have … Continue reading
