Public meetings
Projects that make public government meetings, like town halls, more accessible, transparent, discoverable, and computable. For example, digitizing transcripts of what was said and using AI to summarize the minutes for people who couldn't attend.
Parallel Parliament
Parallel Parliament covers Hansard, Questions, Select Committees, Commons Research and much, much more...
Open Council Network
We track council meetings and decisions, turning them into clear, concise summaries and weekly emails.
The Common News
The Common makes it easy to follow city council meetings, read meeting minutes, and stay informed about local decisions that affect your community.
MyTownhall
A one-stop-shop for accessible local political knowledge and discussion (for small towns in the NJ-NY-PA area).
Bellingcat Council Meeting Transcript Search
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.
Engagic
City council meeting scraping and agenda packet summarization, for the whole country
Noondawind
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 wi...
Local Minutes
A chatbot AI that has access to millions of pages of municipal documents from small towns throughout Vermont.
Renovate the Public Hearing
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 requiremen...
Minute (GOV.UK)
Minute is a secure AI transcription service that produces customisable summaries in the formats that public servants need.
OpenCouncil
Demystify local government and enable citizen participation
Tainan City Council Watchbot
Line chatbot to help people interact with and understand Tainan City Council data. Users can ask in Mandarin, Taiwanese, English or by voice.
CivicSearch
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.
citymeetings.nyc
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.
Civic Engagement Scorecard
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 co...
Democracy Innovations for Better Public Meetings
Better public meetings are possible, sustainable, and measurable.
LocalView
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...
CivicPlus
A suite of govtech products mostly tailored toward local government websites.
BoardTrack
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...
City of NY Virtual Meeting Accessibility Guide
This guide is meant to provide information on how you can make your virtual meetings accessible to people with disabilities.
Documenters.org (Documenters Network)
People-powered news on your local government. We’re putting every public meeting on the record. A City Bureau project.
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Council Data Project
Transparency and accessibility in council action; videos, transcripts, voting records, and legislation -- all searchable under a single website.
Civil Kapocs
segÃtünk tisztán látni - tracks public meetings
Polco
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...
Block Party
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.
City Scrapers
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.