Building the Future of Parliaments, Together: Digital Parliaments Project 2026 Q2 Convening Progress Report
POPVOX Foundation's Digital Parliaments Project Q2 2026 convening covered ParlLink platform updates including bulk upload, a new data agreement, and AI prompting guides for parliamentary staff. Looking ahead: DPP launches in the Balkans and Africa, plus a Caribbean Parliamentary Modernization Summit in Miami this September.
Why We Brought an AI Sandbox to Capitol Hill
POPVOX Foundation brought a hands-on AI sandbox to Capitol Hill, giving Congressional staff direct access to coding agents, file-aware assistants, and agentic workflows blocked on official devices. Participants built hearing-prep dashboards, bill trackers, and Federal Register monitors — gaining firsthand intuition about how fast AI is advancing.
AI Base Camp: Congressional Staff Exploring AI Adoption Hands-On
POPVOX Foundation and Meridian International Center brought AI Base Camp to Capitol Hill, offering Congressional staff hands-on exploration of AI tools across six skills-based stations — from prompt basics and workflow integration to agentic AI and deepfake detection — in an open-house format welcoming all experience levels.
Build your AI skills at AI Base Camp in Rayburn on June 2
Explore the differences between foundational and frontier AI models, the growing impact of token-based pricing, practical ways to build custom AI assistants, and how AI is lowering barriers to civic technology development. Plus, insights on emerging AI policy, governance, and adoption across public institutions.
Casework Navigator: Changes Afoot
Casework Navigator is entering its final month, reflecting on the evolution of Congressional casework while examining major developments across federal agencies. This issue highlights modernization efforts, legislative updates, agency changes, emerging AI tools, and the future of constituent services in Congress.
Democracy, AI, and the Limits of Technological Pessimism
Pope Leo XIV's AI encyclical frames artificial intelligence as a civilizational threat to human dignity and democracy — but is that framing too deterministic? A nuanced look at AI's democratic risks and possibilities, situated within a longer transformation of informational life already reshaping political institutions.
Inside the NYC Council’s Policy “Primeval Soup”
How the NYC Council built a digital infrastructure to manage its legislative workflow — from an AI-powered duplicate checker that resolves sponsorship disputes, to a RAG system preserving institutional memory, to automated compliance tracking — and what it means for legislative modernization more broadly.
POPVOX Foundation Welcomes Ashley Nagel
Ashley Nagel brings engineering expertise and firsthand Senate experience to her role as Senior Manager for Government Innovation at POPVOX Foundation, where she leads Congressional engagement, advances institutional modernization, and bridges the policy-technology divide through training, relationship-building, and hands-on demos of emerging technologies for Hill staff.
Highway to Hill: An artificially intelligent Congress?
Congress faces a growing capacity crisis, and AI could help — but adoption remains uneven. On Highway to Hill, POPVOX Foundation’s Managing Director, Aubrey Wilson, breaks down the barriers to safe, effective AI use on Capitol Hill, from staff training gaps and hallucination risks to privacy concerns and the case for custom-built Congressional tools.
Modernization Without AI?
One year on, the UK House of Commons Modernization Committee has advanced coordination and institutional reform — but largely sidesteps AI and digital transformation. The gap highlights growing tension between modernization efforts and rapidly evolving technologies reshaping legislative workflows, decision-making, and institutional capacity worldwide.
POPVOX Foundation Names Aubrey Wilson Managing Director
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
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.
Building the Future of Parliaments, Together: Digital Parliaments Project 2026 Q1 Convening Progress Report
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.
Departing Civil Servants Spent Decades Implementing Federal Laws. Here's What They Want Congress to Know.
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.
“Without Haste, but Without Pause”: How Uruguay’s Parliament Is Approaching AI
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.
From Use Cases to Institutional Choices
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.
Staff Remote Work in Parliaments: Uneven Starting Points
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 Senate Appropriations Requests: Supporting Constituent Services, Investing in Future Congress, and Strengthening Security
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.
If you were queen or king for a day…
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?
Where the Pacing Problem Becomes Visible
New research on UK MPs’ offices reveals how capacity constraints, fragmented systems, and rising expectations strain day-to-day representation. The findings highlight a growing “pacing problem,” where institutional support lags behind technological and civic demands.