“Basically, without PledgeBank I doubt we would have had nearly as many election observers volunteer. The public nature of PledgeBank also seemed to encourage the very high follow-through rate which meant that most people who signed up actually did the election observation. The result of the pledge was that 25 people were accredited by the Electoral Commission to observe elections in Scotland and England. Their observations fed into our 65-page report which was recently launched with significant press coverage.”
Heard the song ‘We Built this City (on rock and roll)’ by Starship? No? Not to worry, I am just trying to draw parallels with how mySociety.org is organised and managed. You may not have realised, but a good sized chunk of the work that we do is actually carried out by volunteers, that includes… more
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