Cidadania 2.0, Lisbon, 26 October 2012

Kristina Glushkova

PledgeBank

Building civil society tools since 2004

Open Source

Volunteer community

UK and globally

Social enterprise model

Usability

Simplicity

Clarity of purpose

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Kristina GlushkovamySociety

What’s the idea?

• Want to do something good, but don’t want to do it alone

• PledgeBank solves the co-ordination problem

• Very simple principle to each pledge: “I’ll do it, but only if you’ll help”

What’s the story?

• Built by mySociety and volunteers

• Launched in 2005

• Translated into 14 languages by volunteers

• Over 8,000 pledges, from all around the world

• 145 879 people have signed a pledge

How does it work?

Seed funding for the UK’s Open Rights Group….

A new library in Bhubneshwar, India….

Tony Blair used it…

A new residents association…

Community-run café…

Many, many other causes

Donating blood, knitting hats for

charity, boycotting companies,

funding books, posing in charity

calendars, raising money for political

parties, running community

facilities…. And much much more

Tim MorleyA volunteer who runs

pledgebank.com

Applying the idea in local government

Helping people get things done

locally

Taking care of their streets…

Partying!

Supporting young carers

Positive impact

Learning curve – not all about technology

Council more engaged with citizens

If you’d like to use PledgeBank:

Use Pledgebank.com

Set up Pledgebank Portugal

Set up PledgeBank for your municipality

Thank you!

kristina@mysociety.org