Fixing Streets, answering questions and holding power to account with open data by Tom Steinberg, Founder and Director, mySociety

1. mySocietyhello@mysociety.org Fixing streets, answering questions and holding power to account with Open Data

2. FixMyStreet.com Nationwide tool to make it easy to report potholes, broken street lights etc 175,000+ reports to date 50% fix rate Makes everything public Open source and copied in many countries

3. TheyWorkForYou / Mzalendo Political transparency based on clear data on basic democratic facts: How did they vote? What did they say? Did they ever show up? About 2m visitors a year Mzalendo is Kenyan version, in progress

4. Alaveteli Makes it ultra-easy to make FOIA requests to 3000 UK public bodies Better still, it archives all requests and responses, publicly and automatically Over 1m visitors/year Easy to import to new countries