Municipal Webcasting

For the past 14 years, ISI Global Webcasting has been providing live webcasting and media hosting services to corporate and government clients.  Municipalities such as Ottawa and the Region of Halton, etc.  are using our webcasting services to capture council  meetings, media releases, etc and make them available to view on the web. Webcasting offers a transparency to constituents, further bridging the gap between residents and their municipal government. and ISI provides an inexpensive and easy to implement means of bringing your municipality closer via web-based interaction.

Important considerations: Why webcasting works for municipalities
This generation is web savvy, and has an expectation for online access to:

         o Council and Committee Meetings
         o Media Releases
         o Health and safety messages
         o Budget Meetings
         o Election Coverage
         o Instruction on using government programs
         o Instruction on using online or text based forms
         o Contextual messages, explaining policy in both official languages
         o The public can review publicly available content live or at their convenience as all webcasts are archived 
         o Council may not be currently broadcast and if so, not all the residents will have access to cable television
         o Attending Council sessions is not always convenient, especially in rural communities
         o Flash media is ubiquitous (same video type as YouTube)
         o The connection made by audio and video is unparalleled.

MUNICIPAL PACKAGE OFFERINGS - $7500 / year
Includes: The ability (hardware/software) to easily capture and stream Live from council chambers
                Archived material is hosted by ISI and available on your website
                Unlimited number of viewers for live and archived material
                Access to metrics of your live and archived viewership (#of viewers, etc.)
                *Incentives for multi-year contracts

*In the June 2010 issue of Municipal World, iSi's Director of Business Development Brad Alford wrote an article that discussed the importance of "Transparency within Local Government" and how Canadian municipalities can become more accessible to their constituents.