Pledge “britlib”
"I will write to my MP asking for free WiFi access at the British Library but only if 20 other people will do the same."
— Heather Brooke (contact)
Deadline to sign up by: 5th May 2005
14 people signed up, 6 more were needed
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The British Library has granted a monopoly to a private company to provide wi-fi Internet access. A library is a free public resource, but if you want to access electronic resources at the British Library you are forced to pay 4.50 for an hour's usage, while calls to a helpdesk cost 50p per minute. Contrast this to American public libraries where wi-fi access is free.
You can read my posting about this on the 'Your Right to Know' blog: http://www.yrtk.org/2005/iwr-british-lib...
The story was covered by Information World Review - http://www.iwr.co.uk/IWR/1162520
The new mySociety website www.writetothem.com makes it super easy to write to your MP - it'll take you 2 minutes and is both free and easy to use.
- contribute $20 to the "Stop the Silence" charity, for the victims of child sexual abuse, on the behalf of Daniel Felix for his marathon run with the Marathon Charity Partners (MCP) fund raiser group
- donate £5 a month to become a Patron of TheyWorkForYou
- set up a standing order of at least £5 a month to help the Open Knowledge Foundation keep developing and promoting open knowledge
- pledge to pay £1 or £2 per goal that Michael Gash scores this season and I will make a £9 donation now to the playing budget at https://secure.myfootballclub.co.uk/donation
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- There's a new pledge to try this again with a bit of a longer deadline - go to www.pledgebank.com/britishlibTom Steinberg, 4 years ago. Abusive? Report it!
Current signatories (
= they've done it)
Heather Brooke, the Pledge Creator, joined by:
- Chris Sharpe
- Ewan Leith
- Hamish Allan
- Etienne Pollard
- Mark Wilson
- Ian Ross
- Bill Thompson
- Anne Rooney
- Andrew Coburn
- John Naughton
- Matthew Henty
- 3 people who did not want to give their names
