This fall, the city will offer live streaming of the twice monthly meetings online, so fans can watch on their computers at home or away.
Rancho Cucamonga Live and Indexed Video eGovernment will provide a search option alongside archived video, letting users jump to specific agenda items. The search option will work when users type in a keyword and the video will go directly to that portion of the meeting.
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Ontario finished seventh among cities with populations between 125,000 and 249,999.
So much for Canada’s reputation as an e-government leader.
An internal document that was published on Monday says Canada Revenue Agency has ordered a review of Secure Channel, the system used at the federal level to transact a variety of public services. According to the document, Secure Channel is riddled with bugs and has experienced a series of crashes, poorly timed upgrades and administration problems. It also revealed that the cost of Secure Channel is going way up – from $600,000 at the moment to an expected $1 billion by the end of the decade. Even the Canada Revenue Agency Review is to cost $100,000. For a country that has regular sat atop a worldwide Accenture survey of online public sector achievements, this is a portrait of everything e-government is not supposed to be – unreliable, inefficient and expensive.
Between 2005 and 2006, the main government of Canada website logged more than 19 million visits. That number will increase considerably as more Canadians come to rely on the government’s main site, canada.gc.ca.
Read more: Federal Government Wants To Connect With Canadians