Reviving Leadership Over the Legislative Branch: A Proposal for a Joint Committee on Operations
Aubrey Wilson Aubrey Wilson

Reviving Leadership Over the Legislative Branch: A Proposal for a Joint Committee on Operations

The Joint Committee on the Library and Joint Committee on Printing, two-century-old bicameral clubs that once played a key role in increasing the public’s access to government information, have been stripped of their resources and all sense of purpose, creating significant gaps with respect to bicameral oversight of essential elements of the Legislative branch’s operations.

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Northeastern’s CivicConnect Team Builds Congressional Office Chatbot Prototype
POPVOX Foundation POPVOX Foundation

Northeastern’s CivicConnect Team Builds Congressional Office Chatbot Prototype

Northeastern students have built the first Congressional office chatbot prototype. The customizable, open source bot (CivicConnect) can learn from office documents to craft responses to constituents aligned with the representative’s policies. The CivicConnect team developed CivicConnect to streamline communication, reduce response times, and handle high volumes of correspondence.

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Looking for Funding? New Opportunity in Knowledge Curation
Daniel Schuman Daniel Schuman

Looking for Funding? New Opportunity in Knowledge Curation

Government decision making is only as good as the information available to decision makers. DARPA is looking at new ways to increase governmental capacity to make good decisions, including through inviting members of the public to apply for an innovative grant.

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