New Video Archive For City Council
Posted by Jeff Pruitt - 2/18/08 @ 2:01 pm - Filed Under City Council
Last week I spoke before the city council and asked them to create a new board that would identify ways the city could use technology to improve access. A day later I was contacted by the city’s chief technology officer Clifford Clark and he told me they were in the process of rolling out a streaming video archive for city council meetings. He then called me back the next day and I got to be the first citizen to try out the new software.
Let me say that it’s fantastic. Before last Thursday the only way citizens could watch previous council meetings were to physically go to the clerk’s office during business hours and watch it on their VCR - you couldn’t even take the video with you. So let’s just say this is a massive upgrade from that and kudos to Clifford Clark and everyone else involved in the project.
This is just the beginning of what we can do here in Fort Wayne to improve citizen access. The council should keep the momentum by creating some kind of body to author a list of recommendations the city can implement to continue its progress into the information age…
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