Team Name:

BoBaTeam

Team Members:

#aifortruth #accessiblegov #govhack2025 #ai #digital safety #misinformation detection #cyber security #browser extension

Truely

Project Info

Team Name

BoBaTeam

Team Members

Johnny , Riw , Peter , Kat and 1 other member with an unpublished profile.

Project Description

What is Truely

Truely is a Chrome extension that makes accessing verified government information simple, fast, and reliable. By allowing users to highlight any claim or statistic online, Truely instantly fact-checks it against live data from official .gov.au sources, including Centrelink, ATO, and Medicare. It also provides real-time answers to user questions, helping Australians make confident, informed decisions without searching across multiple websites.

Why we need Truely

Australians often struggle with misinformation and conflicting advice online when searching for reliable details about finance, health, education, and government services. Official information from sources like Centrelink, ATO, and Medicare is often scattered, complex, and difficult to access, making it challenging to find accurate and up-to-date answers. Truely solves this by providing a Chrome extension that lets users highlight any claim, instantly fact-check it against verified .gov.au data, and receive real-time, trustworthy information.

How Truely works

What Truely Shows you

With Truely, any highlighted text on social media can be instantly analysed and fact-checked against verified government data.

What's behind Truely

Government-Controlled Knowledge Base – Framework allows agencies to curate and validate trusted data sources, ensuring fact-checking relies only on verified, authoritative information
RAG Architecture with Controlled Context – Combines vector database with AI models but constrains responses to validated document chunks, eliminating hallucination
Universal Browser Access – Chrome extension enables instant fact-checking on any website through simple text selection
Extensible Testing Pipeline – Built-in framework supports integration tests and accuracy validation for continuous reliability improvement under government oversight

Future Work

Conversational Government Data Access: Extend beyond fact-checking to support natural language queries against any government dataset, creating an intelligent government data assistant.
AI Agent Testing Framework: Implement autonomous agents that iteratively test and validate accuracy, continuously improving reliability through automated quality assurance.
Automated Data Pipeline: Build seamless automation for government agencies to inject new official data directly into the vectorized database, keeping information current.

#aifortruth #accessiblegov #govhack2025 #ai #digital safety #misinformation detection #cyber security #browser extension

Data Story

For this project, we ensured that all information came from official and trustworthy sources. Data was exclusively retrieved from Australian government websites with the domain “.gov.au”, guaranteeing accuracy and reliability.
The datasets were primarily accessed in PDF format, downloaded directly from agencies such as the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) and the Department of Home Affairs (formerly Border Protection). These documents provided authoritative details on policies, eligibility requirements, and regulations.
By grounding Truely in official government data, we can confidently deliver fact-checking results that are current, consistent, and credible.

Team DataSets

Biometrics Requirement for Visa Applications

Description of Use PDF file downloaded, to use as infomation source for Truely's queries

Data Set

Visa Partner Application

Description of Use PDF file downloaded, to use as infomation source for Truely's queries

Data Set

What's next for misinformation regulation?

Description of Use Data Regarding misinfomation in Australia

Data Set

Capital Gains Tax

Description of Use PDF file downloaded, to use as infomation source for Truely's queries

Data Set

Challenge Entries

Digital Confidence: Tools for Safe Online Participation

How can communities, governments and organisations enhance digital safety and trust to protect vulnerable populations and enable secure, meaningful engagement with digital platforms and data?

#Navigating-the-digital-seas

Eligibility: Open to all. Your solution will be measured against its relevance to the theme, practicality and scalability, whether it follows ethical and inclusive design, and its innovation. You must use at least one Government dataset.

Go to Challenge | 21 teams have entered this challenge.

Proactive, Personalised Tax Experience with AI

How can the ATO use AI and/or data integration and linking to create a tailored tax experience where compliance is easy and improves financial wellbeing? That can enable tax to ‘just happen’ for all Australians regardless of financial literacy.

#Your-tax-just-happens

Eligibility: Open to everyone. Use at least one ATO data set from the datasets below but you are encouraged to also look at https://data.gov.au/data/organization/australiantaxationoffice or other related sources. Submissions will be assessed based on the insightfulness of the solution, relevance to the ATO's goals, innovation, design impact, feasibility, and compliance with ethical AI standards.

Go to Challenge | 12 teams have entered this challenge.

Community AI Agents: Bridging Service Access Gaps

How can we design Agentic AI solutions that autonomously assist residents in discovering, accessing, and engaging with local government and community services?

#Empower #Connect #Include

Go to Challenge | 27 teams have entered this challenge.

Making AI Decisions Understandable and Clear

As government agencies and businesses increasingly use AI to improve services and efficiency, how can we create tools that help them communicate AI usage clearly, build public trust, and demonstrate responsible AI implementation?

#AI-transparency-toolkit

Eligibility: Open to all.

Go to Challenge | 13 teams have entered this challenge.

An Accurate and Trustworthy Chatbot for Data Interactions

How can government agencies deploy conversational and analytical AI to interrogate complex datasets while maintaining the high degree of accuracy and auditability standards required for official decision-making?

Ask your data, trust the answer

Eligibility: Open to all, but special consideration will exist for teams with a local NT lead.

Go to Challenge | 18 teams have entered this challenge.

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