A resource bank designed not just to explain AI, but to help MPs and staff with step-by-step guides to foster responsible adoption to meet the needs of the people they serve.

According to Inter-Parliamentary Union’s 2024 edition of the World E-Parliament Report, 66% of parliaments have informal methods in place to encourage innovation. That number being so high may surprise some; legislatures are often portrayed as slow-moving institutions resistant to change but the reality is that they are full of people who innovate every day, often with little support or infrastructure formally in place. In that same report, 82% of parliaments cited “learning from other parliaments” as a key enabler of that innovation. That's a remarkable hunger for peer exchange.

We’ve seen that hunger firsthand. Since 2023, POPVOX Foundation has conducted several trainings, hosted briefings, and been a part of a multitude of discussions globally to provide guidance to policymakers and their staff to help them keep pace with the rapid developments in AI. These conversations have given us a front-row seat to how legislatures worldwide are putting this emerging technology to work: conducting policy research, summarizing phone notes, drafting constituent service emails, translating materials into plain language or other languages, producing hearing memos, and editing documents for consistency. The use cases are practical, numerous, and applicable across legislatures.

That hands-on experience prompted us to release a collection of online AI resources to meet the needs of a global legislature audience. This collection will grow, and below is the beginning of a resource bank designed not just to explain AI, but to help MPs and staff with step-by-step guides to foster responsible adoption to meet the needs of the people they serve.