Transparent decision-making

The website should provide insight into how the Local Authority makes decisions. The includes videos of meetings with time stamped transcripts. These transcripts can then provide the users with the ability to find, watch, subscribe and share the bits of the meeting that were of interest to them.

It is essential to meet the Local Authority’s desire for transparency, inclusion and involvement that the content of Local Authority meetings and other decision making processes are searchable and easily consumed by untrained citizens.

Push and pull news

Local Authority activity must be consumable by individuals, content aggregators and publishers they way they need it.  Content curators should push relevant news up through the site’s hierarchy. This activity in itself can be hierarchical. Pull news should be provided by providing generic and specific news feeds, email subscriptions and other notifications. Tools should be evaluated to provide these services in tandem with event and press release information in useful formats and with the maximum re-use of relevant content.