... through naked instinct, like ants building hills, it's groups like Liberty that present our best bulwark against tyranny. MySociety: Software in the public interest -- it's a damned good idea. MySociety produces software like Pledgebank ("I will risk arrest by refusing to register for a UK ID card if 100,000 other Britons will ...

... does not meet in public, it doesn’t publish the details of its meetings and is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act. As Cambridge City Council is represented on the board I used mySociety’s freedom of information site WhatDoTheyKnow.com to ask the council for details of the board’s meetings. As a result papers (agenda, minutes, reports) for all meetings of the ...

In the US, advocacy for open government information  comes from nonprofit organizations like the Sunlight Foundation and OpenTheGovernment.org. In the UK, they have FreeOurData and mySociety.org. In Canada, the nonprofit VisibleGovernment.ca states its mission as improving "civic participation and government accountability in Canada by promoting online tools for government transparency" ...