Best MySociety Podcasts (2025)

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How access to information can help us understand AI decision making 51:18

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29d ago51:18

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AI and automated decision-making technologies are increasingly being used in government, and due to their opaque nature, it’s vital that we bring more transparency to their workings. In this event, three researchers and civil society actors talk about how they have used Freedom of Information to do just that. You’ll hear from Morgan Currie from the…

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Launching TheyWorkForYou Votes 49:41

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New launch, new launch! We could have just talked about our new votes platform, but it was much more interesting to also explore a bit of history, and research into how MPs and the public use TheyWorkForYou. So, together with Dr Ben Worthy, Alex and Julia, that’s what we did. Further information Find the TheyWorkForYou Votes platform here. Here’s a…

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WhoFundsThem – the launch event

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On March 4, we launched new data on TheyWorkForYou, making MPs’ financial interests easier for everyone to access and understand. This wasn’t an easy undertaking! To explain the difficulties we encountered, and the recommendations we have for the way MPs declare their interests, we also put out a report. At our launch event, we chatted through the …

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Who Funds Them launches today 6:39

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It’s March 4 2025, and we’re releasing a bunch of new data on TheyWorkForYou, around each MPs’ financial interests: that’s whether they have second jobs, what donations helped them campaign ahead of the general election, and whether they’ve received gifts such as Taylor Swift tickets. In the course of assembling this data — with the help of our bri…

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Climate Action Scorecards are having real-life effects 3:14

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In this super-short episode, we look at three recent examples of how the Council Climate Action Scorecards are bringing measurable change. The Scorecards are a joint project between mySociety and Climate Emergency UK, and you can visit them at councilclimatescorecards.uk. Here are the three blog posts where you can find more details about all of th…

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FOI for investigating: Joe Banks and Mary Le Port 8:40

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In our second video interviewing subjects of the book Our City: Community Activism in Bristol, we talk to journalist Joe Banks, who was able to find a real anomaly in the council’s approach to developing the oldest part of the city. He did this both by looking at information other people had requested, and putting in his own Freedom of Information …

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FOI for campaigning: We Love Stoke Lodge 7:39

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We Love Stoke Lodge is a campaign group in Bristol, and the subject of one of the chapters of the book Our City, edited by Suzanne Audrey. Many of the campaigns featured in the book used WhatDoTheyKnow and FOI to uncover vital information to support their campaigns. Hear Helen Powell describe the group’s experiences of campaigning to save a beloved…

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Discovering TICTeC 2: Pryou Chung on fostering inclusive approaches to technological innovations for climate action 6:09

10M ago6:09

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mySociety staffers Zarino, Gemma and Myf discuss the TICTeC Session “Fostering inclusive approaches to technological innovations for climate action”, in which Pryou Chung of East West Management Institute gave real life examples of how seemingly positive climate initiatives can go badly wrong when financial structures and baked in biases provide an…

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Discovering TICTeC 1: OpenUp South Africa on measuring impact 5:35

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TICTeC, the Impacts of Civic Technology Conference from mySociety, runs for just two days – but those two days are packed with civic tech practitioners sharing insights and experience from projects along the world. We share most of the sessions as videos on our YouTube channel, and to help you decide what to watch first, we’ve asked mySociety staff…

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Episode 2: September 2024 10:35

1y ago10:35

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We’ve got updates from Julia on this Parliament’s first Register of Financial interests, showing what second jobs and gifts, etc, MPs have declared; and on the startlingly diminished list of All Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs). Meanwhile, Gareth tells us how to get a discount on WhatDoTheyKnow Pro, and we hear from AccessInfo about a new award –…