Tainan City Council Watchbot: empowering informed citizens through AI

Date

11:55 am—12:15 pm · June 11, 2025

Room

Auditorium / Livestreamed

The Tainan City Council WatchBot uses the proceedings released by Tainan City Council to train its AI-powered system to analyse and respond to questions about the council's proceedings. It provides a user-friendly interface that guides citizens to quickly find answers, accompanied by relevant meeting sources to support traceability — and is all open source.

In 2024, Tainan Sprout developed the Tainan City Council WatchBot, utilising the proceedings released by Tainan City Council to train the AI-powered system.

The bot is integrated with Line, one of the most widely used messaging platforms in Taiwan, enabling it to analyse and respond to questions about the council’s proceedings. 

Leveraging AI, it provides a user-friendly interface that guides citizens to quickly find answers, accompanied by relevant meeting sources to support traceability.

Additionally, the program’s source code is released under the MIT license, allowing interested organisations to fork the code and develop their own custom bots.

Explore: https://chatbot.tnsprout.org/en.html