Chris Lightfoot
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Chris Lightfoot (1978–2007) was a leading and prolific online civic campaigner, a polymath and a scientist, and the first developer with Tom Steinberg at e-democracy charity mySociety. He attended Westminster School and did his degree at Clare College, Cambridge in Physics and was one of the founders of Mythic Beasts, an ISP.[1]
He played an important role in the development of:
- PledgeBank, which addresses the prisoner’s dilemma for all sorts of social-good projects;
- YourHistoryHere.com — a site where people can annotate a map with their knowledge of the history of that place.
- Placeopedia — an online gazetteer that is a mashup of Google Maps and the English Wikipedia.
- TheyWorkForYou — tracks speeches and activities of Members of Parliament, including presenting an accessible version of Hansard
- WriteToThem.com — facilitates contacting elected representatives at all levels of UK government.
- HearFromYourMP.com — a site encouraging MPs to email their constituents.
- hassleme.co.uk — "Because your mother can't remind you of everything."
- DowningStreetSays.com — searchable text of the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman's briefings.
- Downing Street e-Petitions — a petitions website for 10 Downing Street.
- FixMyStreet — another map based application facilitating citizens informing their local authority of problems needing their attention, such as broken streetlamps etc.
