VIDEO: http://bit.ly/VidPublicMeet

Session Title: Video and Public Minutes

 

Discussion Leaders:

• Michael DeChiara, Engage Consulting, Shutesbury, Mass.
• Hugh MacKay, Eos Web Video, Jamaica Plain, MA
• Ren Baker, CDS Group, Lancaster PA

 

Three Aspects

• Legal ramifications
• • Open Meeting Law
  • No protocol for email meetings
  • Federal government negotiated with YouTube
• Technical aspect 
• • Production values
  • • Lighting, sound are critical, more so than the camera
    • Multiple cheap cameras
    • Editing: automated systems vs. manual editing
  • Real-time Annotation of video
  • How to get real-time voting
  • CDS Solutions facilitating the meeting
• Social / Political
• • Interaction
  • • Google Groups -- "effective sunlight"
  • How to remove anonymity
  • How to control the message
  • Too much accountability because everything is reported
• Financing
• • Who pays?
  • Commercial ownership of real-time interaction sessions.

 

Public

• 20 / 20 / 60 rule of who participates

 

Examples

• Sunlight Foundation - covering healthcare summit

 

Different Meeting Types

• Committee Meetings -- Parliamentary procedure Live engagement only 
• • Citizen comments prior to meeting
  • During meeting
• Call-in shows (non-official)

 

Problems

• Public Participation Gap -- what hearing is happening when?
• Public Response Glut
• • Especially at federal level
  • Many responses, not enough people/time to respond
• Time optimization

 

Follow-Up Items

• Notes