Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Fingal County Council meetings enter the Digital Age

I was reading a recent email from my local library when I spotted the following text in the footer:

Watch Council Meetings at http://www.fingalcoco.public-i.tv/

I clicked on the link and I must say I was very impressed with the site which offers high quality streaming video of various council meetings. What was even more impressive was the fact that the video was indexed with the agenda items being discussed so that if you wanted to hear discussion on one agenda item you could quickly locate the relevant portion of the recording.

Unfortunately the meetings them selves were about as interesting to watch as watching paint dry :-( - but I suppose the IT department can hardly be blamed for that.