Open Parliament TV

In October 2021, the first parliament went live on Open Parliament TV!

Check out our search engine and interactive video platform with data by the German Bundestag:

https://de.openparliament.tv

Screenshot of the Open Parliament TV Platform

Idea

With Open Parliament TV we build up trust in parliamentary democracy, by making political decision processes more transparent, trustworthy and participatory.

Video recordings of parliamentary debates hold great untapped potential for digital democracy. They are more tangible than text documents or lists of votes and provide an easily accessible “window“ to the underlying discussions, negotiations and decisions.

We want to use this potential by

creating a joint technological basis for parliaments (interoperable standards, interfaces and document formats) as well as
developing a search engine and interactive video platform, in which speeches are searchable, linkable, citable and sharable via a synchronisation of videos and proceedings.

News

Platform Redesign: New Front Page, Context Filters and Dynamic Preview Images

02.07.2026 Project Updates

As part of our efforts to welcome new users better, we decided to complement the simple design of our front page (until now little more than just a search bar) […]

German Bundestag: Speeches from 2009-2013 (17. EP) now searchable

09.06.2026 Project Updates

As something of a by-product of our preparations for integrating new parliaments, we were able to make over 20,000 additional speeches accessible. This means that 17 years of Bundestag debates […]

#BundestagFirstSaid Bot now uses Open Parliament TV API for Quotes

06.03.2026 Use Cases

The context bot for Bundestag First Said now uses the Open Parliament TV API to generate quote cards and link directly to the exact text passage in the context of the speech. […]

Others about us

It is not just a service that you provide with your platform, it is a true service to our democracy!

Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, former Federal Minister of Justice

What an awesome initiative to make parliamentary work more transparent!

Anke Domscheit-Berg, Ex-Member of Parliament

[...] Open Parliament TV shows which potentials digitisation and open data hold for digital democracy

German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action

Open Parliament TV is just awesome. This is what I always wished for as a member of parliament.

Fabio De Masi, Ex-Member of Parliament

Brilliant tool for transparency and democracy [...]. Great work, which we actively support with CORRECTIV!

Justus von Daniels, CORRECTIV

We're very proud to support Open Parliament TV. The project aims to make democratic and civic life more accessible to everyone not just political and media professionals.

BBC News Labs

With Open Parliament TV, the speeches in the German Bundestag become searchable and finally more accessible. I would like to see that for all parliaments.

Boris Hekele, abgeordnetenwatch.de

Open Parliament TV is a beautiful example which useful applications are possible, when government data is openly accessible.

Bernd Oswald, Bayerischer Rundfunk

Love this quietly awesome project [...]. Such obvious steps for any modern, web-enabled democracy to take, and yet so few have done so. Bravo.

Devin Balkind, Sahana Software Foundation, WeGov.NYC

Open Parliament TV is a great bid from civil society for more transparent parliaments.

Mario Wiedemann, Bertelsmann Foundation

Straight from the series “What we always wished for.”

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