mySociety, a nonprofit organization based in the UK that runs most of the best-known democracy and transparency websites in the UK, celebrates five years of working, building, and developing for the common good this month!

Who's mySociety?

A community of volunteers and (paid) open source coders with two missions:

During MashupCamp, Yoz Grahame, of MySociety.org and Ning, demos a few projects he's helped build including WriteToThem and PledgeBank. WriteToThem empowers citizens in the UK to hold their elected officials accountable while PledgeBank is a resource for creating and pledging support for any idea, if enough people also support that idea. Yoz explains while giving a demo.

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