QuitérIA
QuitérIA is a feminist artificial intelligence tool developed by Instituto AzMina that monitors and analyzes bills in Brazil’s National Congress, identifying their impacts on the rights of women and LGBTQIAPN+ people.
How It Works
QuitérIA is integrated into Instituto AzMina’s Elas no Congresso platform to make legislative monitoring faster, more robust, and more transparent. The tool tracks proposals from Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies and Federal Senate related to gender and human rights on a daily basis and uses artificial intelligence to perform an initial classification and assessment of the proposals.
Based on the automated collection of legislative data, QuitérIA identifies potentially relevant bills, analyzes their content, and indicates whether they may represent progress or threats to the rights of girls, women, Black people, and LGBTQIAPN+ people. Artificial intelligence does not replace human analysis: its results undergo validation, review, and curation processes.
This process includes two spaces for participation and oversight. The Validation Committee brings together experts and civil society organizations to assess and validate the classifications produced by QuitérIA, helping improve the accuracy of the analyses and identify potential errors or biases. The Governance Committee, in turn, oversees the guidelines, criteria, and decisions related to how the solution operates, helping ensure its responsible and transparent use in alignment with feminist principles and the goals of Elas no Congresso.
Validated data is made available through a public dashboard, where users can track bills, topics, legislative proceedings, and assessments. The platform also includes a real-time alert system for the progress of potentially restrictive bills, as well as a monthly newsletter that summarizes the main developments and proposals of the period in accessible language.
In this way, QuitérIA combines artificial intelligence, human curation, civil society participation, and governance mechanisms to make legislative monitoring faster, more reliable, and more accessible — helping society identify changes in Congress and respond, with qualified information, to decisions that affect rights.
Documentation
Elas no Congresso follows a rigorous Open Data and Open Science policy:
Free and Public API: Enables structured data to be integrated with other applications, academic research, and social accountability tools.
Reusable Datasets: Raw datasets and methodological documentation are periodically made available for auditing and unrestricted reuse by developers and journalists.
QuitérIA Training Repository: All code used to train QuitérIA is also openly available, encouraging new contributions and further development.
Network of Partner Organizations
Rather than centralizing assessments within a single team, the project adopts a collaborative knowledge-production model, bringing together experts from recognized organizations across different fields and regions to analyze the impacts of legislative proposals.
Each organization contributes its thematic expertise, built through years of work in areas such as human rights, gender justice, sexual and gender diversity, violence prevention, health, communications, technology, urban policy, reproductive rights, and political participation. This diversity of perspectives strengthens the quality of the assessments, reduces individual biases, and expands the project’s ability to understand the different effects that a legislative proposal may have on distinct social groups.
In addition to classifying proposals according to their impact on the rights of women, girls, and LGBTQIAPN+ people, the organizations provide technical observations that support their assessments. These justifications enrich the project’s knowledge base, increase the transparency of the process, and serve as a reference for the training and continuous improvement of QuitérIA, which uses these human analyses as its primary source of learning.
The diverse network of specialized organizations includes: Anis Bioética, Artigo 19, Cepia, CFEMEA, Coletivo Mana a Mana, Ecos, Empodera, Gepô, Instituto + Diversidade, Instituto Maria da Penha, Instituto Patrícia Galvão, Instituto Update, Juristas Negras, LabCidade, Mulheres Negras Decidem, Observatório da Violência Obstétrica no Brasil, Plan International, Rede Feminista de Juristas (deFEMde), Rede Liberdade, Sempreviva Organização Feminista (SOF), Sexuality Policy Watch (SPW), Themis, and TretAqui.
