Case study Pamplona Town Council

Parliamentary sessions now being transmitted live over the internet.

"Starting from today, citizens will be able to follow the sessions of the Pamplona Town Council on the town councils webpage (www.pamplona.es). The consistory informs, that the system allows for the following of an entire recorded session or depending on the interest only selected points of the agenda or only speeches by a selected council member.

The retransmission of the sessions allows all citizens interested in the discussed topic to virtually attend the session from their computer screen at a chosen day and time. So far more than 1.500 viewers have accessed the sessions over the internet, half of them in january".

Diario de Noticias Pamplona, Thursday, march 2nd, 2006

Close to 200 people follow the parliamentary session in Pamplona live over the internet.

An average number of 200 viewers follow the parliamentary sessions of the Pamplona Town Council that started being broadcasted over the internet in this past january. Excluding the first two sessions that were retransmitted, where 712 viewers were recorded following the members of the council debating, in the last four sessions the number of live viewers surpassed 200. In the last session, that continued until 3 in the morning, more than 10 viewers followed the session transmitted at 1 o´clock in the morning.

Diario de Navarra, april 19th, 2006