Chris Lightfoot (4 August 1978 – 11 February 2007) was an English scientist and political activist. He was the first developer, with Tom Steinberg, at e-democracy charity mySociety.[1]
Lightfoot was born in Dulwich, England, in 1978.[1] His mother, Prue, was a journalist and his father, Robert, was a patent agent.[1] His older sister Steph taught him how to program the family's BBC Micro.[1] He attended Westminster School, where he was part of the team representing the school in the British Informatics Olympiad.[1] He used his knowledge of programming to produce a crater investigation model in the physics department at Westminster which was of an extremely high standard. This was part of a physics project in which he was awarded a 15 Merit — an outstanding and very rare full mark.
WriteToThem.com — facilitates contacting elected representatives at all levels of UK government.
— a site encouraging MPs to email their constituents.
[3]— "Because your mother can't remind you of everything."
DowningStreetSays.com — searchable text of the Prime Minister's 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.
tpop3d — a pop3 server
vmail-sql — vmail-sql, a virtual email hosting system backed by MySQL
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