Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism

Achados e Pedidos is a digital platform that collects thousands of requests under the Law on Access to Information (LAI). Created in 2017, its goal is to make it easier for any citizen to access public information and to create an extensive database that makes it possible to evaluate the service provided.

The initiative uses AI to categorize the quality of order response in its database. In 2022, the project introduced the repLAI chatbot tool, through which journalists can get help to appeal denials of LAI requests. The project has three main goals:

• To provide easier access to information;
• To avoid repeated requests to the public administration;
• To create a database that is broad enough to allow analysis of each body's satisfactory response rate, the number of appeals made, etc.

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