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  • mySociety is a charity and we make tech that helps you change the world for the better. Tune in to learn the latest on our work in Democracy, Transparency, Community and Climate.
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  • Discovering TICTeC 1: OpenUp South Africa on measuring impact

    Discovering TICTeC 1: OpenUp South Africa on measuring impact
    2024/10/23
    TICTeC, the Impacts of Civic Technology Conference from mySociety, runs for just two days – but those two days are packed with civic tech practitioners sharing insights and experience from projects along the world. We share most of the sessions as videos on our YouTube channel, and to help you decide what to watch first, we’ve asked mySociety staff to pick their favourites and chat about what they found so interesting. In this episode, Alice, Gemma and Myf discuss “Have you empirically improved transparency and accountability?” from Sean Russell of OpenUp South Africa. You can watch that session in full for yourself at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsfjF7kV5go. If you value the work we do at mySociety, please donate. Transcript 0:00 Gemma: Hi, I’m Gemma I’m mySociety’s Events and Engagement Manager and I am the producer of TICTeC. Myf: I’m Myf and I am the Communications and Marketing Manager 00:10 at my Society. Alice: Alice I’m the Head of Fundraising at mySociety. Myf: Today we’re going to talk about one of the sessions that was at TICTeC 2024 and this was 0:20 Sean Russell from openup South Africa and the title was “Have you empirically improved transparency and accountability?”. Alice you chose this one to talk about. 0:30 Alice: Yeah I liked that he was challenging us to think about how do we prove that we are having the impact in the world that we say we want to? It’s obviously very relevant as a fundraiser. 0:40 I have to demonstrate that we are having an impact. He gave some really good examples of what he called The Good, The Bad and The Misguided. Gemma: in terms of impact measurement it was a really 0:50 nice sort of back to basics presentation of why it’s important to measure impact in the first place and some ways to go about it, but they also talked 1:00 about some really interesting impacts of their own work which is what TICTeC’s all about. They run a tool, apparently, that is a medicine price registry, so a massive database where you can see 1:10 prices of all the medicines across South Africa at their lowest price, so you can see if you’re being overcharged and apparently it’s a legacy project doesn’t have any funding 1:20 and they don’t measure the impacts of it, and then when website went down one day and they had loads of calls and emails saying, “Where’s the website? I use it all the time!” 1:30 and it it has a massive real world impact that they just weren’t measuring, so I thought about some of mySociety’s tools, you know, our legacy projects that we keep up to date but we don’t 1:40 have any funding for and just wondered what would happen if we turned off some of our sites and what the impact of that would be. Alice: He also talked about how there’s a service 1:50 that they have for looking at corruption in lottery grants, and he said it essentially only has two users, which if you – and his words were, 2:00 “If you’re measuring success based on user numbers then this would be the worst website ever!”, but he then went on to talk about the fact that those two users have 2:10 then gone on to have like significant impact with that and it’s been dramatic the things that have come from it. Myf: Those two users are journalists, right? 2:20 Alice: Journalists and legal experts, so people who can actually make change happen from seeing this data, and that I think is really interesting relating it to mySociety again like Gemma was just talking 2:30 about – we’ve got services that are more niche and they they reach like more specific audiences, so user numbers, we’ve got services that reach millions of people, but we’ve got 2:40 other services that have much smaller numbers, but if those people are then going on to have really significant real world change with the information that we’ve provided or the 2:50 way that we’ve been able to connect them to important information, then that’s what we want to see. It doesn’t matter how many people are doing it as long as there is change happing as a result and 3:00 I think that’s where he was trying to make the distinction between outputs and numbers, and actual outcomes and impact. Gemma: I found it really impressive that they actually could count up 3:10 how much money was actually being recovered from uncovering that corruption so I think he said like 20 million Rands which, I don’t know, is like a million pounds or something that had been recovered from 3:20 those investigations of that civic tech project that had two users. Myf: I remember he sort of opened the whole talk up, didn’t he, by saying somebody came into the office one day and said, “Why should people fund our projects 3:30 rather than just feeding a hungry child?” The answers that he came up with was that it’s about systemic change so it’s about making the changes that then 3;40 ensure that there are fewer hungry children in the world rather than just addressing the problem. Alice:...
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  • Episode 2: September 2024

    Episode 2: September 2024
    2024/09/02

    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!

    Links
    • 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.

    Transcript

    [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…)
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  • Episode 1: August 2024

    Episode 1: August 2024
    2024/08/05

    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.

    Links
    • 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.

    Transcript

    0:00

    Well, hello and welcome to mySociety’s monthly round-up.

    My name is Myf Nixon, Communications Manager at mySociety.

    0:11

    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…)
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    21 分

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