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

• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence
• 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.

• cities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Meeting tech

Better public meetings are possible, sustainable, and measurable.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Meeting tech

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
• Meeting tech

Dive is not just an AI assistant; it's your partner in optimizing meetings for maximum efficiency.

• commercial

• Artificial Intelligence
• Meeting tech
• Generative AI

We provide online meeting and conferencing tools, powered by renewable energy, running on cooperatively owned infrastructure.

• coop

• Open source
• General purpose open source tools
• Meeting tech

A paper published in Nature introducing a database of public meetings in the US

• YouTube

• Communicating with the government
• Peer-reviewed research
• Academia

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

• Participatory democracy
• Archives
• Communicating with the people

Free teleprompter to make more persuasive presentations and share your script with supporters to amplify your message.

• Campaign tools
• Meeting tech
• Organize events

Access Lab é uma empresa que trabalha o acesso de pessoas com deficiência e S/surdas à cultura e ao entretenimento enquanto direito humano fundamental.

• Adjacent Fields
• Hubs
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

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
• Meeting tech

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

• Meeting tech

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

• Govtech
• Meeting tech
• 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

OF/BY/FOR ALL toolkit (PDF)

• toolkits

• Surveys & polling
• Meeting tech

French event support platform

• Meeting tech

Online check-in style meetup, plus document-based format to support remote and asynchronous gatherings

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Meeting tech

Free and easy Mobile Voting tool for ANY speaker or teacher.

• Group decision making
• Meeting tech

The ultimate real-time discussion platform for all-inclusive events and meetings

• web app

• Participatory democracy
• Group decision making
• Online forums

An online conference platform

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Meeting tech

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
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

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.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Artificial Intelligence

segítünk tisztán látni - tracks public meetings

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

A useful comparison of videochat solutions

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• COVID