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Public Meetings

Explore 32 projects in the Public Meetings category of the Civic Tech Field Guide.

32 projects
https://localview.net/Active

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 โ€” the central policy-making process in American local government โ€” as they are captured on video.

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
2023
Archives, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Audio processing, Communicating with the people, Participatory democracy, Public meetings, Speech recognition
YouTube
https://www.civicplus.com/productsActive

CivicPlus

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

302 South 4th Street, Suite 500 Manhattan, Kansas 66502
Forms, Govtech, Public meetings
https://council-search.bellingcat.com/ActiveOpen-source

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.

UK
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Government transparency, Public meetings, Watchdogging and transparency, Watchdogging government
https://civicdashboard.ca/ActiveOpen-source

Civic Dashboard

Take Action on what's happening at Toronto City Council

Toronto
2026
Civic literacy, Communicating with the government, Find your representatives, Meeting finders, Public meetings, Watchdogging government
https://info.polco.us/platformActiveOpen-source

Polco

Polco is a platform designed to increase civic engagement, improve government transparency, and inform municipal governments of constituentsโ€™ input which, in turn, will help better guide public policy.

Middleton, WI
2015
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Digital participation platforms, Engagement tech, Govtech, Ideation, Participatory democracy, Public meetings, Surveys & polling, The Tech
https://localminutes.orgActive

Local Minutes

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

Vermont
Access to laws, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Bureaucracy tech, Generative AI, Public meetings
local
https://www.nationalcivicleague.org/center-for-democracy-innovation/democracy-innovations-for-better-public-meetings/Active

Democracy Innovations for Better Public Meetings

Better public meetings are possible, sustainable, and measurable.

Washington, DC
Engagement tech, Participatory democracy, Public meetings
https://ClerkMinutes.com/Active

ClerkMinutes

ClerkMinutes helps local governments turn agendas and meeting recordings into accurate draft minutes faster.

United States of America ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
Access to information, Bureaucracy tech, Govtech, Payments, Permitting, Public meetings
https://blockparty.studio/ResolutionsActive

Block Party Resolutions Archive

"Before this project, there was no centralized archive of resolutions, no search function across meeting notes, and no easy way to quickly understand what the [Community Board] had previously said about a topic."

New York City
2026
Archives, Civic data, Public meetings, Watchdogging government