The Global Observatory of Intelligent Public Institutions is a proposed open, non-commercial empirical research initiative concerned with where and how public institutions materially participate in computational cognition. It seeks a comparative legal record of institutional action, rather than a ranking of countries or a catalogue of digital services.

The Observatory distinguishes static e-governance, such as informational portals and online forms, from arrangements that acquire and synthesise evidence, interpret statutory rules, classify persons, determine eligibility, calculate liabilities, or materially shape public decisions. Its research follows the connection between legal source, institutional authority, interpretation, data, process, outcome and remedy.

This networking roundtable brings together domestic practitioners, researchers, public officials, auditors, technologists and affected-community advocates to examine the proposed research protocol and identify opportunities for collaboration. African and Global South contributions are central: comparative records should reflect domestic law, local institutional knowledge and local-language sources rather than imported assumptions.

Participants will work with a jurisdiction-and-function matrix and a structured Observatory record. They will be invited to identify relevant primary sources, documented institutional cases, methodological objections and possible contributions as country contributors, source verifiers, local-language reviewers, competing-doctrine researchers, operational-case contacts or critical reviewers. Verified evidence, research leads and unresolved criticism will remain distinguishable; attribution of contributions will depend on consent.

The intended outcome is a working contributor network, a clearer acquisition and verification protocol, and priorities for a post-IGF working meeting and comparative research. The Observatory is complementary to JUS.automica and the provisional Intelligent Institutional Act Test; participation does not imply endorsement, and no claim is made that the proposed global coverage or comparative baseline is already complete.

Networking Session #134. JUS.smart / JUS.automica Research Initiative, a KSC.JUSNREM initiative.