---
title: 'Video Context for government and the public sector'
description: 'Make public video searchable and accessible, and keep it on your own infrastructure.'
url: 'https://videocontextapi.com/for/government/'
---

# Video Context for government and the public sector

> Public-sector teams use Video Context to make meetings, hearings, and public footage searchable and accessible, and they can run it on their own infrastructure so the video never leaves their network.

> Status: Private beta. The API, SDK, and MCP server are open to beta partners. Book a call to get access: https://calendly.com/sam-reactvideoeditor/30min

## What teams do with it

- **Search meetings and hearings**: Find every time a topic came up across years of council and committee video.
- **Make video accessible**: Accurate captions and transcripts with speaker names, for every recording.
- **Review footage faster**: Summaries, chapters, and key moments, so staff do not watch hours of video.
- **Keep data in your control**: Deploy in your own cloud account or on your own servers.

## Why the public sector needs it

Councils, parliaments, and agencies record meetings, hearings, and public events every week. The recordings must be accessible, and the public and staff expect to find what was said. Today, that means long videos with no search, and captions that someone adds by hand.

Video Context makes public video searchable and accessible. It writes accurate captions and transcripts with speaker names, splits each recording into chapters, and lets anyone search across years of recordings. It can run on your own infrastructure, so data stays under your control.

## How it works

1. Connect your recordings, or send new ones as they are published.
2. Video Context transcribes, names speakers, adds chapters, and detects topics.
3. Staff and the public search by topic, speaker, or date.
4. Captions and transcripts publish automatically with each recording.

## What changes

- Every recording is accessible, with captions and a transcript.
- Anyone can find the moment a topic came up.
- Staff spend less time reviewing footage.

## Example output (planned API design)

```json
{ "video_id": "council_2026_09_14", "chapters": 12,
  "topics": [ { "t": 2311.0, "topic": "housing budget", "speaker": "Cllr. Ahmed" } ],
  "captions": "en-GB" }
```

## FAQ

### Can Video Context create captions for accessibility?

Yes. Video Context creates captions and transcripts with speaker names for every recording.

### Can we deploy it on our own infrastructure?

Yes. You can deploy Video Context in your own cloud account or on your own servers.

### Can people search across many years of meetings?

Yes. After Video Context indexes the recordings, people can search all of them by topic, speaker, or words.