About Granicus

Granicus, Inc. is a privately held corporation in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1999, the company has established a new vision for local government and municipalities to provide public information through the Internet.


Granicus, Inc. provides comprehensive solutions for creating, managing and distributing live and on-demand streaming media content to support and enhance public meeting communications, internal training and public education programs for local government. Further, our legislative management solutions improve the Clerk's overall workflow by enhancing the way they record motions, votes, roll call, and speaker notes and votes.

As a streaming media solution provider, Granicus supplies governing agencies with the software, hardware, infrastructure and expertise to quickly integrate streaming media into their communications tool set. Granicus solutions help clients improve their internal and external communications resulting in improved external relationships and internal knowledge transfer, while lowering their total communications cost.
 

Guiding Principles

Through hundreds of discussions with our clients and potential clients we have developed the following guiding principles for the development of our streaming media solutions: 1) Provide a complete end-to-end solution that exceeds client expectations, 2) Utilize, instead of replace, a client’s current technology assets, 3) Offer client and user interfaces that can be easily used by non-technical staff, 4) Provide a reasonable total cost of ownership, 5) Build software tools that scale and automate the legislative process.

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Featured News

21 November 2008 - Something Everyone Agrees On: More Demand = Good Thing

Geoff Daily, a technology journalist, sees how the government can spur the demand for bandwidth in continuing to make more of their services available online. Granicus is an example where government meetings are being webcasted and citizens can watch at their convenience, easily search through agenda items, look up related materials, and more.

20 November 2008 - From Town Hall, It's Council Meetings Live By Webcast

Aside from being able to watch live broadcasts of council meetings online, citizens are also able to review and replay agenda items, as well as, use a search engine to review past actions on issues of interest. This new process is available with the help of Granicus Inc. of San Francisco, who is opening up the workings of town and city governments across the nation.


Futher Reading Material

Internet Broadcasting and Archiving for Local Government (PDF)