Subjects and summaries
Every meeting is split into subjects. For each one: a summary, each speaker’s position in brief, the video and the decision.
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Municipal councils and committees, open to everyone
- For residents: video, transcript, search, per-subject summaries, notifications.
- For staff: the minutes, ready to sign within 48 hours, at a competitive cost.
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Live in 14 municipalities in Greece, from Samothraki to Athens. 734 meetings published.
For residents
Hours-long meetings, understood in minutes.
Within 48 hours of every meeting, every subject has its video, summary, contributions per speaker and decision.
OpenCouncil · ChalandriWhatsApp Business
In yesterday's city council meeting, subjects affecting your neighborhood were discussed:
Store hours extension
42 Pentelis Ave
Traffic regulations
Herakleitou Street
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Notifications
Residents get a WhatsApp, SMS or email message whenever the council discusses their street or neighbourhood.
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Subject map
The council’s and the communities’ subjects on the map. Zoom into any area, neighbourhood and street.
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What took days now takes hours.
Transcripts, minutes, decisions: automatically, or with minimal human intervention.
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Minutes · City Council 26/08/2026
Item 2 · Removal of the Badminton building, Goudi Park
Decision 537 · ΑΔΑ 968ΦΩ6Μ-025 · Unanimous
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Transcript in 48 hours
A transcript of every meeting, accurate and checked by a person, with automatic speaker recognition.
Minutes ready to sign
The meeting’s minutes, with attendance, votes and decisions, ready for review and signature.
Printed archive
The transcript archive delivered in print, to your municipality’s specifications.
OpenCouncil replaces your minutes provider, at a similar cost and with ten times the functionality.
How it works
From the meeting to the resident, automatically.
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Recording
The meeting is recorded or pulled from YouTube. A video or an audio file is enough.
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48 hours
Transcription with speaker recognition, checked by a person. Subjects, summaries and decisions, automatically.
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Publication
The meeting is published, residents are notified and the minutes are ready to sign.
What municipalities say
Within the first five minutes, I knew this was something different.
Awards and mentions
Digital Governance Award
Best Applied Idea in Local Government, from the Greek Ministry of Digital Governance.
Good Practice Certificate
European Public Sector Award 2025–26, EIPA
Finalist
Innovation in Politics Awards 2026
Finalist
7th Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation
OpenCouncil in the OECD.AI Policy Navigator, the OECD catalogue of AI in the public sector.
“AI and municipal councils, at the edge of Greece”, a WIRED Greece report from Orestiada.
Pilot
Become the first pilot municipality in Finland.
We are looking for one municipality to launch OpenCouncil in your country. The pilot is free, for as long as it takes.
Running within days
A meeting video or a YouTube channel is enough. Nothing to integrate.
In your language
Interface, summaries and notifications in your language; transcripts checked by a person.
A direct line
From the first call to the first published meeting, you talk to the team that builds the product.
The team
The team behind OpenCouncil.
Five people, building technology for local democracy. OpenCouncil P.C. is wholly owned by Schema Labs, a non-profit company.
Our code is open
GPL v3 licence. Every line of code is public.
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Always building
What is coming to OpenCouncil over the next months.
- Budgets and technical programmes
Our space
An open space for talking and building in the centre of Athens. Come and meet us, or write to [email protected].
Smolenski 22, AthensStart in your municipality in days, not months.
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