A site where people can report, view, or discuss local problems like graffiti, fly tipping, broken paving slabs, or street lighting. Made in collaboration with the Young Foundation, and originally called Neighbourhood Fix-It.
HearFromYourMP encourages and enables MPs to run email lists for their constituents, and to allow those constituents to discuss ideas in a way which doesn't bombard them with email. 5,000 people had signed up before it was even launched.
PledgeBank is about reassuring people who want to do something altruistic or socially beneficial that they won't be alone in their actions. It lets users create pledges which say "I'll do something, but only if 10 other people will do something", for example "I'll clean up the banks of my local river, but only if 5 other local people will pledge to come and help.
NotApathetic was built so that people who were planning not to vote in the UK General Election on May 5th 2005 had the chance to tell the world why. Non-judgmental and non-partisan NotApathetic caught the attention of 40,000 visitors during the general election, and was discussed on a dozen local radio stations, and in newspapers from New Zealand to South Africa.
WriteToThem.com is the definitive place to contact any of your elected representatives. Enter a single postcode and it'll tell you who all your local representatives are, and a bit about who you should contact for which reasons. An award winner within 12 weeks of launching, WriteToThem.com sent 5,000 messages in its first month of operation.
TheyWorkForYou provides a searchable, annotatable version of what is said in Parliament, as well as useful pages providing clear, non-biased information on a range of different measures of activities by MPs. Originally built by volunteers while mySociety was getting started, it is now part of mySociety.
We built the 10 Downing Street e-Petitions site as a civil service commissioned project to allow members of the public to petition the Prime Minister about whatever issues they see fit. Highly robust and load-tolerant, it is also available as open source code for reuse elsewhere.
We're building a website to help people make Freedom of Information requests to different parts of government. It will then archive the responses on the web. We've got funding from one of Joseph Rowntree's trusts for this (yes, the dead chocolate mogul; eat lots of chocolate, it'll help mySociety's successors in the 22nd century).