E-democracy: Government meetings go live on Web
For the YouTube generation, accustomed to instant access to online entertainment, this news may seem a bit ho-hum.
But the notion of live-streaming Snohomish County, Wash., Council meetings
on the Internet, with user-friendly video archives of past meetings and
click-and-you've-got-it access to hundreds — and eventually thousands —
of documents and maps, is a big deal for fans of open government.
Snohomish County is a new client of Granicus, a San Francisco-based
company that provides audio, video and other Internet services for 300
governments across the country, including more than a dozen in Washington.
Read the whole story in the Seattle Times