TheyWorkForYou is mySociety’s most visited site, providing citizens with a range of information on their politicians, such as: Who their local MP is What MPs said in Parliament Summaries of how MPs have voted Text of debates in Parliament Video of MPs talking in debates Written questions MPs have submitted to government departments, and the answers they’ve got back Email alerts whenever an MP speaks, or a topic is mentioned in Parliament Comments and annotations from our users on what has been said TheyWorkForYou was visited around two million times in 2007 (according to Google Analytics) and has become a small institution in British politics.

Mysociety, c’est quoi ? C’est la principale initiative d’une association anglaise a but non lucratif, fondée en 2003 et regroupant une communauté de volontaires et de développeurs open-source rémunérés. Cette dernière est à l’origine du développement de sites que P. Rosanvallon qualifierait de « contre-démocratique »: par exemple Theyworkforyou pour découvrir ce que font les députés anglais (historique des prises de position, archives des textes et speech) ou WritetoThem pour contacter n’importe quel député à partir de son code postal (plus de 400 000 messages déjà envoyés à ce jour via la plateforme). Mysociety a également développé le site officiel de G. Brown de pétition citoyenne. A noter qu’en France, le collectif « regards citoyens »  en France a lancé récemment le site nosdeputés.fr permettant, comme theyworkforyou, de s’intéresser à l’activité des députés à l’assemblée nationale.

Pourquoi c’est important et comment s’impliquer ? Les responsables de l’initiative mysociety.org sont joignables via leurs coordonnées sur le site web (http://www.mysociety.org/about/contact/), et se disent prêt à étudier toute opportunité de collaboration, notamment à l’international (traduction, adaptation, support au développement). Pledgebank par exemple est conçu dès l’origine comme un site international, reposant sur le mode « si je trouve 10 personnes comme moi prêtes à faire ça alors je le fais)

se déroulera le premier Open Government Data Camp français à « La Cantine » à Paris samedi 12 décembre 2009.

le site intitulé j'aime les artistes pas les majors, affiche quantité de liens vers les pages de la Quadrature du Net, Canard PC, une de nos actus sur un best of des casseroles de Christine Albanel, des articles de Maitre Eolas, Numérama, La Bataille Hadopi, etc.

Cette gestion du domaine va provoquer sans doute des remous : le site officiel défendu par Christine Albanel avait été facturé au ministère de la Culture, et donc aux contribuables, entre 50 000 et 85 000 euros selon les estimations que nous avait fait la Rue de Valois (hors taxes)

L'internaute derrrière ce site nous a avoué qu'il filtrait, en guise de clin d'oeil tout accès "d'une ip appartenant au ministère de la culture"  (technique). "Ces IP sont redirigées vers  vers http://www.jaimelesartistes.info/block.php en m'envoyant un mail au passage". Le premier mail est tombé peu après cette actualité, preuve qu'une IP appartenant à proxy-valois.culture.fr s'est à nouveau préoccupé de Jaimelesartistes.fr.

With the 2010 U.S. elections coming into view, many people are looking for more information about the people running for office -- and the individuals and organizations funding these candidates.

Many are funded by The Sunlight Foundation, which aims to use "the revolutionary power of the Internet to make information about Congress and the federal government more meaningfully accessible to citizens."

1. Watchdog

A decalogue like a work in progress, to promote the idea and the principles of a new Public Administration more able to act and operate in the era of the Nets. This is the “Manifesto Amministrare 2.0”

The Venetian event permitted to collect a lot of ideas and suggestions useful to the writing of the document. First of all, anyway, it was very important to understand that many italian Administrations, and inside them politicians, managers and civil servants, are strongly convinced that the Public Administration need to embrace, at least partially, that “web 2.0 philosophy” who is changing the web and, more important, the life of organizations, enterprises and millions of people

The role of politics Politicians must be able to take responsibility of their choices. The organizational dimension Public Administrations must change their organization and their procedures, pursuing a new idea of relationship with citizens and abandoning the self-approach. The Net as a right The access to the Net, specially to broadband, must be easy and cheap everywhere. Beyond the cultural divide Citizens must be helped to develop a new digital culture. The involvement of citizens There’s no Public Administration 2.0 without a strong intervention in favour of participation. The multi-channel approach as opportunity Service are really tailored if there’s attention to the channels more appropriate for the different users’ target. Disintermediation to better act To promote a Public Administration no more “one way” and finally “2.0” is important to foster a bigger disintermediation between institutions and citizens. Re-start form the semantics of public contents The semantics presentation of public information, services and contents must be conceived with the final users and open to folksonomies. Software as enabling factor Software used in public sector must be open and re-usable by other administrations. Foster the development of active communities User groups and social networks must be considered as a fundamental stimulus to design public web services, starting from their desires and indications.

ust when politicians thought that they might get some time away from the public gaze, as the electorate grows weary of MPs' expenses, a new watchdog has been born

Drawing on the success of political sites such as TheyWorkForYou, Democracy Live will provide a one-stop shop of political videos, with eight video streams to watch – including proceedings from Westminster and Strasbourg, as well as debates taking place in Holyrood, Cardiff and Stormont.

The BBC's main political blogs, with contributions from its political editor, Nick Robinson, the Europe editor, Gavin Hewitt, and home editor, Mark Easton, will be featured in a comment section. This will also offer a forum for public figures, starting with an article by the House of Commons Speaker, John Bercow, about how to rebuild trust in parliament