AI-powered municipal intelligence platform that turns city council meetings, agendas, and public records into searchable intelligence for Dallas and Fort Worth.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Govtech vendors

Take Action on what's happening at Toronto City Council

• Watchdogging government
• Communicating with the government
• Civic literacy

Frankfurter Stadtpolitik von der Straßenebene bis zur Stadtverordnetenversammlung — Themen, Abstimmungen und Nachbarschaft auf einen Blick.

• Civic data
• Watchdogging government
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

ClerkMinutes helps local governments turn agendas and meeting recordings into accurate draft minutes faster.

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Access to information

GroundVue is a local government data platform that helps public leaders analyze policy decisions, compare cities and counties, and track emerging issues.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data
• Public meetings

The platform for authentic online political discussions

• Artificial Intelligence
• Communicating with the people
• Citizen Engagement

Poliscope ist eine Plattform, die kommunale Sitzungsinformationen, Dokumente und Datenzugänge aus ganz Deutschland zentral bündelt.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Government transparency
• Research tools

We track council meetings and decisions, turning them into clear, concise summaries and weekly emails.

• Govtech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Public meetings

Parallel Parliament covers Hansard, Questions, Select Committees, Commons Research and much, much more...

• Govtech
• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

The Common News makes it easy to follow city council meetings, read meeting minutes, and stay informed about local decisions that affect your community.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

A one-stop-shop for accessible local political knowledge and discussion (for small towns in the NJ-NY-PA area).

• local

• Mapping tools
• Budget explorers
• Public meetings

This is a local democracy reporting tool that enables researchers to search auto-generated transcripts of Council meetings for different authorities across the UK and Ireland.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Allows indigenous communities to track public meetings and their agendas. "A dynamic, integrated, networked cyberinfrastructure platform to generate community impact by connecting diverse end-users with STRONG data and analyses"

• local

• Civic data
• Public meetings

A chatbot AI that has access to millions of pages of municipal documents from small towns throughout Vermont.

• local

• Artificial Intelligence
• Bureaucracy tech
• Generative AI

Renovate the Public Hearing is an initiative created by the Centre for Dialogue to act as a convener and catalyst to pilot changes to the provincial local government land-use public hearing requirements as a means to enhance social justice, community-building and strengthen democratic culture.

• Govtech
• Communicating with the people
• Democratic Innovations

Minute is a secure AI transcription service that produces customisable summaries in the formats that public servants need.

• United Kingdom (government)

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Speech recognition

Demystify local government and enable citizen participation

• local
• city
• TikTok

• Engagement tech
• Civic data APIs
• Podcasts

Line chatbot to help people interact with and understand Tainan City Council data. Users can ask in Mandarin, Taiwanese, English or by voice.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

CivicSearch is a search and discovery tool for everything that is said in local government meetings, texts, and laws. It covers 547 cities and towns in the US and Canada.

• local

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data
• Government transparency

A tool that makes it easy to navigate and research government meetings. It uses LLMs to create granular chapters that readers can skim and share.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Public meetings

Better public meetings are possible, sustainable, and measurable.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Public meetings

It's a quick tool for the public to rate: 1) Official public meetings (such as city council meetings, board/commission meetings, school board meetings) that you have attended. 2) How connected your community (people, organizations and institutions) is.

• Engagement tech
• Evaluate impact
• Public meetings

LocalView is a database co-created by Soubhik Barari and Tyler Simko to advance the study of local government in the United States. It is the largest dataset of local government public meetings — the central policy-making process in American local government — as they are captured on video.

• YouTube

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Archives

BoardTrack is a community board attendance tracking tool and data standard that helps community board staff submit attendance records to the Manhattan Borough President’s community board liaisons. In turn, liaisons can quickly analyze attendance history. By BetaNYC

• templates

• Communicating with the people
• Public meetings

This guide is meant to provide information on how you can make your virtual meetings accessible to people with disabilities.

• guides

• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Public meetings

People-powered news on your local government. We’re putting every public meeting on the record. A City Bureau project.

• local

• Media
• Crowdsourcing
• Archives

A suite of govtech products mostly tailored toward local government websites.

• Govtech
• Public meetings
• Forms

Transparency and accessibility in council action; videos, transcripts, voting records, and legislation -- all searchable under a single website.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Citizen Engagement

We make local policy information accessible and byte-sized, with a weekly email of your community board’s most recent meeting highlights and transcript data.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Polco is a platform designed to increase civic engagement, improve government transparency, and inform municipal governments of constituents’ input which, in turn, will help better guide public policy.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech

A community open source project designed to standardize, scrape and share public meetings in a central database, in collaboration with City Bureau's Documenters program.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Communicating with the government

segítünk tisztán látni - tracks public meetings

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy