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Location: LKL Auditorium
Host/Speaker: Stefan Magdalinski
Date and Time:
Thursday, 04 October 2007, 19:30 - 21:30
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This autumn, the LKL is proud to host the mySociety.org Disruptive Technology
Talks. This series features interesting and highly net savvy people whose work
takes them to the boundaries between cutting edge technology and wider society.
The first speaker is Stefan Magdalinski, co-founder of TheyWorkForYou.com,
FaxYourMP.com, UpMyStreet.com and now CTO of Moo.com. He'll be talking about the thought processes
and technical challenges that led to the creation of these sites, and what he
sees as the direction of Internet enabled social change today.
This event is
organised by mySociety.org and it is open to all.
mySociety.org has two missions. The
first is to be a charitable project which builds websites that give people
simple, tangible benefits in the civic and community aspects of their lives. The
second is to teach the public and voluntary sectors, through demonstration, how
to most efficiently use the internet to improve lives. It is funded through a
charity called UK Citizens Online Democracy.
Stefan Magdalinski
has been an online civic activist for over 10 years. Previous projects
he founded include FaxYourMP.com (currently redirects to www.writetothem.com) and the
groundbreaking online geocoded information source and community UpMyStreet. His
most recent project TheyWorkForYou is an activist-created and run
re-implementation of Hansard, the UK's parliamentary record. With no
co-operation from the authorities, it adds comments, outbound links, trackbacks,
functioning search and finally Wikipedia and Technorati magic to the previously
static document as well as detailed statistics on the performance of UK
Politicians.
Further information and sign-up
form
Stefan's Blog
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/
http://www.mysociety.org/
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