Council webcasts

Where are you? Only 36 people watched Development Control Committee live yesterday - I suppose we are competing with daytime TV schedules.

Infact I reckon those figures are great - especially if we consider the handful of people who usually attend a Council meeting - and it's only been going a month! This is great and hopefully will encourage more accountability, democracy - and fewer CO2 emissions if people can stay at home and watch - and good for councillors or officers who missed a particular item due to illness or whatever - and of course an improvement for people who find reading stuff hard - infact so many advantages...

The only downside is that these meetings can become much more a platform for political point scoring rather than actual business - you can already see this happens in Council - with an audience at home I can see there will be more of this.

November webcast stats show 492 people watched - 151 watched them live. Most popular was the Council meeting on 9th November with 221 viewers while DCC last month got 154 hits - no doubt more will watch this months DCC and more as people realise it is happening.

Watch Council webcasts here.