We’re excited to announce the AI & Open Government Workshop (AIOG), co-located with ICAIL 2026 in Singapore on June 8, 2026. The call for papers is now open!
Together with Graham McDonald (University of Glasgow) and Jason R. Baron (University of Maryland), I’m co-organizing this workshop to bring together researchers and practitioners working at the intersection of AI and government transparency. As the research we do at the OpenGov Lab sits exactly at this intersection, we felt there was a need for a dedicated venue where these communities can meet: spanning information retrieval, legal AI, NLP, e-discovery, and open government practice.
Why this workshop?
Governments worldwide are grappling with the challenge of making public information accessible and transparent at scale. Whether it’s processing freedom of information requests, reviewing documents for sensitive content before publication, or making government archives searchable; AI has a growing role to play. At the same time, this raises important questions about reliability, fairness, and accountability.
AIOG aims to be a space where we can discuss these challenges across disciplinary boundaries. We’re particularly interested in bringing together people who don’t always meet at the same conferences: IR researchers, legal tech practitioners, government professionals, and transparency advocates.
Topics of interest
We welcome submissions on topics including, but not limited to:
- FOIA and public records automation
- AI-assisted sensitivity review and redaction
- Large language models for government applications
- Information retrieval in government archives
- Transparency technologies and open government policies
- Legal and ethical considerations in AI-enabled government transparency
Submission details
We accept two types of submissions:
- Research papers: 3–9 pages (excluding references)
- Position papers: 2–4 pages (excluding references)
All submissions should follow the ICAIL 2026 formatting guidelines. Papers may be under review elsewhere, and previously published work is welcome for presentation. Submissions are handled through OpenReview.
Important dates
- Submission deadline: April 9, 2026
- Notification of acceptance: May 1, 2026
- Camera-ready deadline: May 20, 2026
- Workshop: June 8, 2026
Note that our submission deadline falls after ICAIL’s main conference notification date (March 23), so if you have relevant work that didn’t make it into the main conference, we’d love to see it at AIOG.
Get involved
For more information, visit aiog.net or submit your work via OpenReview. Feel free to reach out to me at d.p.graus@uva.nl if you have any questions.
We hope to see you in Singapore! 🇸🇬