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Philippine Civic Data MCP server

Ask your AI about Philippine places, earthquakes, weather, procurement and census numbers.

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This is a helper that connects your AI to public Philippine government data. It pulls together earthquake and volcano bulletins, weather and typhoon updates, government spending notices, census numbers, and more. It is handy if you work in research, journalism, local government, or any job where you need facts about a Philippine place.

What is an MCP server? The 30-second version

On its own, your AI can only chat with you. An MCP server is a small helper program that gives your AI a new skill or a connection to an outside source. This one connects your AI to Philippine civic data, so when you ask a question about a city, a storm, or a government project, the AI can go look it up for you. You just type your question in plain words, and the helper does the fetching.

What this MCP server does

You ask your AI something like how many people live in a certain city. The AI passes that question to this helper. The helper then talks to the right public source, such as the PSA census tables or the PHIVOLCS earthquake feed. It brings the answer back and the AI explains it to you in the chat. If a source is down, it tells you clearly instead of pretending there is no data.

Flow diagram: you ask your AI “How many people live in Tacloban?”, the Philippine Civic Data MCP server reaches Census, Earthquakes, Weather, Procurement and Elections, and you get back answer in chat.

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What you can do with it

Get a full profile of any Philippine place, from region down to barangay
Check earthquakes and volcano alert levels near a location
See the weather forecast, typhoon bulletins and air quality for a city
Search government procurement notices for roads, flood control and other projects
Compare two or more places on population, poverty and employment
Look up census, poverty, inflation and labor statistics
Read the 2025 election results down to precinct level

Try asking your AI

“Give me a profile of Tacloban.”
“Any earthquakes near Legazpi in the last day?”
“What is the poverty rate in Eastern Visayas?”
“Search PhilGEPS for flood control projects in Pampanga.”

What it gives back to you

You get answers in the chat, usually as short summaries with the numbers you asked for. Some tools return lists, like recent earthquakes or procurement notices. You can also ask for a comparison to be exported as a CSV file. Every answer notes where the data came from and when it was retrieved.

Before you start

What you need

The uvx tool installed on your computer (it comes with the uv Python tool)
A supported AI client such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code

Good to know

The data comes from public records and some indicators are statistical estimates, so treat any finding as a starting point and check the original source before making claims about a person or project.

Install it with your AI

Add Philippine Civic Data MCP server to your AI, no technical skills needed

You don't install anything by hand. You copy one prompt, paste it into an AI that can work on your computer, and it checks, installs and connects the server for you, asking you when it needs something.

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Members get a ready-made prompt that lets the Claude desktop app check Philippine Civic Data MCP server, install it and connect it for them, step by step. You don't need any technical skills: you copy, paste and answer a few questions. Your connected AI can also find and install any of the 4,066 MCP servers here for you.