Baisoku Kaigi
From Plural Reality (Japan): Inspired by democratic challenges in Otoineppu, a Japanese village facing population decline, this tool helps residents understand and express their views before participating in community deliberation.
Uses an adaptive LLM questioning loop to clarify individual positions, then maps them with PCA-based opinion clustering to identify consensus, factual disputes, and value differences.
BetterGov.PH
From WeSolve Foundation (Philippines): Born from a grassroots anticorruption movement, this volunteer-run, open-source platform monitors how the government spends money, awards contracts, and manages public projects.
Uses a parsing-and-normalization pipeline that turns scattered government records into machine-readable open datasets, then layers automated red-flag analysis over them to surface the projects that journalists and citizens should scrutinize first.
Civic Pulse
From Ciudadanía Inteligente (Chile): Piloted in Chile and built to expand across Latin America, this AI-powered early warning system tracks legislative activity and emerging threats to civil society.
Ingests legislation and news through public APIs and classifies it with a LlamaIndex retrieval layer over a curated legal corpus, generating risk alerts that human analysts validate before they reach the organizations who act on them.
Convoca
(United States): Co-designed with city planners in New York City and organizers in North Carolina, this tool makes sense of large volumes of community input, surfaces recurring themes, and connects public decisions back to what residents actually said.
Analyzes everything from sticky notes to recorded dialogue using RAG-grounded sensemaking, providing source-level traceability for every synthesized insight.
FOIA+
From Civio (Spain): Grounded in more than a decade of defending the right to information in Spain, this tool helps people navigate the entire freedom-of-information process.
Uses RAG to ground responses in Spain's transparency law, regulator resolutions, and court rulings, turning a plain question into a formal request, explaining the government's response, assessing whether a refusal is lawful, and drafting an appeal when it isn't.
Karakutu
From CORRECTIV (Germany): Built for exiled journalists, researchers, and diaspora communities, this decentralized archive helps make invisible censorship visible by preserving censored journalism in Turkey, where tens of thousands of news articles have disappeared from public view since 2014.
Runs a smart-contract-coordinated miner network that monitors news outlets for deletions, then passes each through a verification pipeline before a human auditor signs off.
Open Facilitation Library
From Metagov (United States): As AI becomes more involved in public deliberation processes, this project works to define and teach what good facilitation looks like, helping train people and AI systems to support collective decision-making, self-governance, and meaningful public participation.
Uses two open-source elicitation agents: one using agentic RAG (Comhairle), and one that applies embedding-clustering (Harmonica).
PublicAlgo
From Dice Network (Czech Republic): Turning transparency obligations into actionable information about how European governments use AI, this platform transforms public records and freedom-of-information requests into a searchable public record of government AI use.
Combines a self-hosted registry, a freedom-of-information request engine, and an LLM document-analysis service to build searchable profiles of each government AI system.
Visual Index
From Dean Issacharoff (United States): Developed to support the slow, fragmented work of accountability investigations, this tool helps investigators search thousands of hours of video to uncover evidence of human rights violations and other critical findings in minutes instead of weeks.
Builds a multimodal embedding index over large video collections, turning them into searchable databases that can be queried by what is seen or said on screen.
Watch Tower
From Amplified Access (Uganda): Working across nine local languages in East Africa, this platform enables communities to report civic incidents through text, voice, and multimedia, helping local organizations identify emerging issues and respond more quickly.
Reports are processed through a speech-recognition and translation pipeline using fine-tuned, low-resource language models, then classified and plotted onto live maps.
