#CouncilVoting🗳️

Our goal is to make local elections more accessible and empower voters with informative, politically-neutral, human-moderated AI/data-driven political journalism.

We’re developing an AI to help voters engage with and access information in local elections, similar to ABC’s “Election Compass” for federal elections.

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Interactive “Election Compass”

• As an option on the bot within the AI bot
• To help generate an individualized 2-pager for the most relevant info each voter should take to their local LGA election.

Sample/Proof of Concept

1. Opening Survey: Pager 1: Questionnaire
2. Pager-1: #SampleOutput {Council_Ward_OnePager}
3. Pager-2: ‣

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Analysis for the Council Ward One-Pager will primarily be drawn from the Council Report Dataset (https://www.olg.nsw.gov.au/public/about-councils/comparative-council-information/your-council-report/)

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Aim of Project

User Benefits of our AI Chatbot

1. Inform them of their local council area.
2. Make informed voting decisions based upon voter' concerns highlighted from the questionnaires.
3. Highlight to the user who has been in charge over the last 10 years the council area has changed over the last 10 years, who has been in charged and

Impact Outcomes

• Use AI to transform bureaucratic jargon into plain English.
• Place-based insights unlocked: Generative AI x Digital Atlas of Introducn.
• Improving the accessibility of online Government services.
• Civic Participation for a more resilent, cohesive democracy.
• AI in governance.