Government Transparency

To build public confidence, agencies need to modernize their online transparency strategies and to provide the accountability citizens demand. Posting public records and policy information on the Web no longer satisfies the public’s appetite for faster access to government information. And often, the information out there is overwhelming, unorganized, hard-to-locate, or out-dated.

Granicus helps government overcome these limitations. Our solutions enrich, consolidate, and distribute vital public information to citizens in the way they want it—interactive, timely, and instantly accessible. With Granicus, agencies have the capacity to:

• Engage citizens with live access to public meetings

  Empower citizens to shape informed opinions about government by providing live access to public meeting webcasts. Granicus MediaManager helps agencies easily capture and broadcast any public meeting or event live over the Web through a simple workflow that’s built around their existing public meeting processes.

• Provide on-demand access to public meetings anytime, anywhere

  Deliver faster, more flexible access to public meetings and deliberations with on-demand streaming playback. On-demand availability allows citizens to watch, listen, and research public meetings and deliberations, anytime, from any Internet connection. Also, Granicus’ eComment technology empowers citizens to actively and productively involve themselves in the democratic process.

• Empower citizens to make informed decisions with unfiltered information access

  Increasingly online audiences expect information from the original source—raw and untouched. To achieve higher levels of transparency, government institutions are expected to deliver complete and original government information to the public. Hundreds of public agencies rely on Granicus streaming solutions to give citizens a complete, uncensored view into government decision-making. Our streaming solutions cultivate transparency by delivering firsthand information to citizens to help them form their own opinion about issues.

• Build a transparent one-stop-shop for legislative information

  Deliver more transparent and accessible public meetings and records on your website by consolidating them into one, easy-to-find location on your website. With Granicus, you can build a robust media portal for legislative information on your website. Our workflow automatically integrates and consolidates your audio/video public meeting recordings and vital public records—agendas, minutes, proceedings, and staff reports. The process creates a centralized portal or integrated public record of webcasts and digital records on your website sets the new standard for legislative transparency.

• Accelerate public access with advanced search

  You can reduce the burden on staff and citizens trying to research and locate specific policy issues or decisions with searchable content. Granicus provides advanced search functionality on your media portal of tightly integrated, rich media content. Citizens and staff can search across all your content—agendas, minutes, documents, and meeting transcripts—to locate the specific policy item or discussion they are interested in. With Granicus, advanced search is available without requiring extra work from your staff. The Granicus workflow automatically integrates the metadata captured in our system—including agendas, minutes, documents, transcripts, staff reports—and makes it instantly searchable from one location on your website.

• Reach all audiences with accessible and flexible delivery channels

  No matter how citizens choose to access your information—using any Internet browser, computer, smart phone, or mobile device—Granicus solutions provide you with a variety of options to deliver your streaming content in the highest quality formats:

  • Cross-platform compatible
    Provide access to your public meeting streaming media from any Internet browser or computer with Silverlight.
  • Closed captioning
    Protect the interests and rights of people with disabilities with our ADA-compliant, closed captioning streaming service.
  • RSS subscriptions
    Allow citizens to subscribe to agendas, minutes, videos, and specific keyword searches with RSS (Really Simple Syndication), available through your Granicus Media Portal. When new information is posted, it’s automatically delivered to content subscribers.
  • Mobile reach
    Give audiences access to your information on iPods, iPhones, and other mobile devices. Granicus Podcasting enables government agencies to syndicate and distribute all types of audio or video content to your audience in MP4 and MP3 formats.
  • Customizable portals and players
    Present your streaming content to audiences in the most compelling and user-friendly way. Our flexible design and website navigation options give you the flexibility to decide how you want your audiences accessing and interacting with your information.

• Facilitate highly secure and consistent public access

  Ensure your information is secure and highly available to public audiences. Our robust media distribution servers--MediaCenter, MediaVault, and StreamReplicator--work together to deliver audiences a reliable viewing and listening experience. No matter where users access your media, from inside your network or outside, our intelligent routing delivers streams to users over the fastest paths, without consuming large amounts of bandwidth or putting extra strain on your network. Granicus systems meet the highest industry security standards with highly a redundant and flexible architecture that is proactively monitored by our support engineers.