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Fife Council Start Streaming
Fife council meetings to be streamed on the internet.
16:03 24 April 2018
Fife council will start streaming their meetings on the internet to encourage wider public awareness and involvement in council business. The move also aims to increase the local authority’s transparency in relation to decision-making.
Once it takes effect in August or September, the Glenrothes area committee and full Fife council meetings will be shown. The council will also test the use of mobile broadcasting service to see whether or not the technology could add value to community engagement.
Two trials will be carried out on May 2 and 3 before the official roll out.
Conservative East Neuk and Landward Councillor Linda Holt, described the latest development as an “all-out good thing and long overdue”.
She noted: “Westminster, Holyrood and plenty of other councils broadcast their proceedings because it is an essential tool for being transparent and accountable to the public in the 21st century.
“Fife Council should have been giving the public video access to their meetings years ago.
“Knowing the public are watching, and that any clip could become an internet meme, should encourage councillors to up their game, improving both behaviour and standards of argument in debate.
“Broadcasting will enable the public to better appreciate what their elected members can and can’t do.