TheyWorkForYou
- 10th December 2004
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I spent a while last night chatting to Roland at Nykris about the guys behind mySociety, a collection of volunteers who are cornering the market in innovative and USEFUL government websites. Off the back of that I just spent a little while having a look around TheyWorkForYou, another of their projects. It's a fantastic idea for a website and beautifully executed. What has my MP been up to? How would I ever find out? Well I could go and trawl through parliament records but since they all call each other 'the honourable gentleman', that could take a while. And I'd have to leave the comfort of my sofa. TheyWorkForYou allows me to first find my MP and second look at what he's been up to over the last year. How many parliamentary debates has he been involved with? How often does he vote? How much does he spend on his staff? It's all right there. myCommunity have done a fantastic job of providing a simple mechanism for getting exactly the information I want, and they've executed it very well. And not for profit?! What is the world coming to?
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