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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 – the winner will be invited to Madrid to present their work.

Alongside all of that, Myf explains how a WhatDoTheyKnow user harnessed the power of Reddit to verify the responses they were receiving to their FOI requests.

Enjoy!

• Blog post on the Register of Financial Interests spreadsheet; and more details on what it contains
• Blog post about Reddit, WhatDoTheyKnow, and Physician Associates
• Blog post on the diminishing number of APPGs
• AccessInfo Impact Awards
• Full details on how to get a discount on WhatDoTheyKnow Pro by linking to your outcomes
• Our TikTok account
• Our Bluesky account

Music: Chafftop by Blue Dot Sessions.

[0:04] Myf: Hello. Thank you very much for tuning in. 

[0:07] This is our second monthly collection of news and updates from mySociety, and my name is Myf Nixon. I’m mySociety’s Communications Manager. 

[0:15] This month, I’m going to share with you five pieces of news — two from our democracy work, and three from our transparency side. (more…)

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.

• 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.

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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…)