In the past ten days we ran four council meetings completely remotely. This included our special Full Council meeting on 29th April, with over 40 councillors in attendance, you can watch it below. We're using Zoom Webinars and live streaming through YouTube, but this piece isn't about the technology, it's about the wider approach we took to enable us to deliver fully remote council meetings. Here's what we did: Involved everyone from the start It needed a team effort to enable this to happen. Officers from Democratic, Legal, IT, and Digital teams, and senior councillors were involved in various aspects, including research, drafting guidance, drafting policy, deciding which platform to use, deciding how that platform should be used, and testing. Researched and built on existing knowledge We'd already live streamed council meetings before starting in 2015 , and some councils were already ahead of us enabling remote meetings . This tweet by Peter Fleming,...
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