Projects - Meeting tech

Local Minutes

Vermont

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

local

Mentimeter

Turn presentations into conversations with interactive polls that engage meetings and classrooms.

commercial

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.

Minute (GOV.UK)

10 Downing Street

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

United Kingdom (government)

OpenCouncil

Greece (Ellas, Ellada)

Demystify local government and enable citizen participation

Dembrane

Netherlands (Nederland, Holland)

Let participants record conversations, we transcribe and help you analyse it in minutes..

Tainan City Council Watchbot

Tainan City

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

Harmonica

Newspeak House, Bethnal Green Road, London, UK

Your virtual facilitator.

Newspeak

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.

local

citymeetings.nyc

New York City

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

Washington, DC

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.

Democracy Innovations for Better Public Meetings

Washington, DC

Better public meetings are possible, sustainable, and measurable.

Dive

India (Bhārat)

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

commercial

meet.coop

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

coop

LocalView

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

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

Paper: LocalView, a database of public meetings for the study of local politics and policy-making in the United States | Scientific Data

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

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

YouTube

Big Stage Teleprompter

San Francisco

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

Access Lab

Portugal

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.

City of NY Virtual Meeting Accessibility Guide

New York City

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

guides

CivicPlus

302 South 4th Street, Suite 500 Manhattan, Kansas 66502

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

BoardTrack

New York City

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