Title: Why Is Transparency Critical in Local Government? | Diligent Insights
Headings: Why Is Transparency Critical in Local Government?
Why Is Transparency Critical in Local Government?
In this article, you will learn:
Why openness and accountability go hand-in-hand with transparency
How both internal and external communications improve with greater transparency
Why transparency is most effective with the right digital tools designed for local governments
The Benefits of Openness, Transparency, and Accountability
Transparency Enhances Communication
Technology Is the Key to Transparency
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Content: It’s often the most proficient way to share information. Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube provide outlets to share information proactively with the general public for announcing events, live-streaming government meetings, and communicating policy changes. In today’s world, many people spend lots of their time on social media, and that means that social media is a great place to get information to them fast. Additionally, social media opens up a way for two-way communication. Local governments can post information in seconds and in a few more seconds get comments and feedback from citizens. These discussions provide rich communications that benefit both parties. The first place that citizens will usually go when they want to get information about their community is their local government’s website. It makes sense that this is the place that local governments should focus their attention on providing access to the information that citizens want most. When citizens have access to a search box that brings up any public document, it saves clerks and other local government workers the time to pull it up and deliver it to the person who asked for it. Search boxes on a government website make it fast and easy for citizens to pull up government policies, the budget, financial information, forms, documents, and live-streaming videos for council meetings.