Since last year, Usurbil City Council's plenary sessions can be followed live remotely, both ordinary and extraordinary, via the Council's YouTube channel. Now, the Council has taken a new step to communicate decisions made in plenary sessions to citizens in a more accessible way, deepening the digitalization of this area.
To this end, it has launched a new video-minutes tool. This tool displays the contents of the plenary sessions classified by agenda item and with the speakers participating in each, in addition to offering subtitles in four languages. The Council has contracted the company Goiena, with extensive experience in this field, to implement this tool.
It shows the contents of the plenary session classified by agenda item and with the speakers participating in each, and, in addition, subtitled in four languages.
The process is as follows: the Council records the videos of the sessions and hands them over to Goiena to format them as video-minutes. In this way, from now on, the sessions will be available on the municipal website a few days after their celebration. For example, the video-minutes of the sessions from the end of February and March 26 are already available on the Usurbil City Council's video-minutes portal.
This new tool allows users to view the entire session or specific agenda items, as well as a classification according to the speaker intervening in each item. The videos can be viewed without subtitles or subtitled in Basque, Spanish, English, and French. Subtitles are generated using automatic translators, after transcribing the video's audio, to ensure comfortable and accessible reading.
The municipal government team has reported that this step has been taken in accordance with the "ordinance on the electronic functioning of collegiate bodies" and the "mission of a close City Council", with the aim of "moving from being a mere video recording to a video-minute".
