POPVOX Foundation announces Aubrey Wilson as Managing Director, elevating a leading voice in AI, legislative modernization, and global parliamentary innovation. Wilson will guide the organization’s next phase, advancing responsible technology adoption and strengthening connections between Congress and modern digital infrastructure worldwide.

Keeping Pace delivers practical, nonpartisan AI and technology insights for Congressional Members and staff. Each monthly issue breaks down fast-moving developments, explains real-world impacts on Congress, and offers actionable tips to build fluency — no vendor bias, no politics, just clear guidance to help institutions keep up.

Explore how the Digital Parliaments Project is modernizing legislatures through shared learning, open-source tools like ParlLink, and AI-powered digitization. This Q1 2026 progress report highlights global collaboration, field insights, and practical innovations helping parliaments streamline workflows, manage data, and accelerate digital transformation.

A new Departure Dialogues report from POPVOX Foundation reveals how federal laws break down in practice due to a broken interbranch feedback loop. Drawing on decades of civil servant experience, it offers actionable recommendations to help Congress improve program effectiveness and oversight.

At the IPU Assembly, Rodrigo Goñi Reyes, Speaker of Uruguay’s Chamber of Deputies, outlines Uruguay’s AI strategy, emphasizing regulation as an “enabling condition” for adoption. The approach highlights sequencing, institutional trust, and global coordination, offering a model for balancing innovation, risk management, and parliamentary modernization in the AI era.

At the Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly, parliamentary leaders examined how legislatures are moving from isolated AI use cases to coordinated institutional strategies. Insights from Germany and the UK highlight challenges in governance, capacity-building, and aligning AI adoption with long-term transformation and legislative effectiveness.

Insights from the Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly reveal how parliaments approach remote staff work, from advanced frameworks in the UK and Canada to infrastructure constraints in developing legislatures. The debate highlights trade-offs in flexibility, cybersecurity, productivity, and institutional resilience across uneven global starting points.

POPVOX Foundation outlines FY2027 Senate appropriations priorities to strengthen constituent casework, modernize congressional capacity, and enhance security. Proposals include a casework liaison office, improved agency coordination, AI experimentation funding, continuity planning, and expanded training—aimed at boosting efficiency, oversight, and resilience across Congress.

Congressional caseworkers get a front-row seat to broken federal systems — immigration backlogs, PSLF delays, Medicare Advantage gaps, DHS shutdown fallout, and more. Explore the latest agency updates, constituent pain points, and an upcoming USCIS listening session where caseworkers finally get to ask: what would I fix?