Plateforme citoyenne pour la démocratie, la transparence et l'accès à l'information publique au Sénégal
# Vie Publique Sénégal
> Originally initiated within Code for Senegal and now actively maintained by Vie Publique Sénégal.
## Overview
Vie Publique Sénégal is a platform dedicated to providing transparent access to public information in Senegal. This project aims to make government data and public information easily accessible to citizens.
## Features
- **Official Documents**: 10,000+ documents — laws, decrees, reports, Journal officiel — with full-text search
- **News & Dossiers**: latest public-affairs news and thematic reference pages gathering documents, news and podcasts on a single topic
- **National Assembly**: deputies, commissions, votes, written questions and parliamentary news
- **Council of Ministers**: communiqués, appointments and personality profiles
- **State Organization**: ministries and public entities, constitutional institutions, organizational chart with decree archives and comparison
- **Budget**: Senegal's budget explained with visualizations
- **Elections**: electoral dashboard (presidential, legislative, local) with results maps and statistics
- **Public Projects**: dashboards tracking public programs (PRES, PIP)
- **Podcasts**: civic podcast episodes
- **Stay Informed**: newsletter, RSS feeds, push notifications and a mobile app (Android/iOS)
> 📋 See the CHANGELOG for the main features shipped over time.
## Social Networks
The project has built one of the largest civic information communities in Senegal, reaching more than 250,000 followers across its social platforms.
Follow us on our social networks to stay updated:
- LinkedIn - 85K followers
- Facebook - 100K followers
- Instagram - 10k followers
- Twitter/X - 25K followers
## Architecture & Technical Stack
> 📖 **Want the full story?** Read **Behind the scenes of a civic tech** — how the platform grew from a prototype shipped in **one hour** to a robust, self-hosted and sovereign architecture, our DevOps, our AI-assisted development pipeline, our data model, and even …