2023 Legislative Session

Montana Legislature Council Data Project

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CHAMBER DRIVEN ADVOCACY TOOL FOR BUSINESS

Use this free platform to research and follow advocacy concerns using the 2023 legislature videos with keywords.
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Knowing what’s happening in Montana’s state legislature just got as easy as using Google. Six Montana Chambers of Commerce pooled resources to support Open Montana’s deployment of the Council Data Project for the Montana state legislative session. This tool will perform the following services for every citizen, business, state agency, and organization in Montana:

• Transcribe the approximately 9,000 hours of video that are expected to be produced during the state legislative session
• Make these transcripts searchable and rank results by relevance by issue or Bill #
  
• Let users easily jump to the most relevant portions of videos
• Allow users to share links to a specific moment in a video
• Integrate with the 2023 Capitol Tracker, which tracks the progress of bills through the Montana state legislature (coming soon)

This tool will help our members, businesses, state organizations and the general public understand and react quickly to developments in the legislative session. We believe this will result in better and more transparent government in Montana. A direct link to the tool is here.

This project was sponsored by the following Chambers: Missoula, Helena, Big Sky, Montana, Kalispell, and Great Falls.
Council Data Project is an open-source software project dedicated to providing journalists, activists, researchers, and community members
with the tools they need to stay informed and hold their governments accountable.

Open Montana is working to make governments in Montana more transparent, participatory, and collaborative. It is a program of DemocracyLab, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with a mission to empower people who use technology for public good.

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M e m b e r  P a r t n e r

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2023 Capitol Tracker

The lawmakers, bills and votes of the 68th Montana Legislature

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