Pictron GovWebcast Solution empowers local government to webcast public meetings and announcements on the Internet live or on-demand. The public webcast provides live streaming video with synchronized agenda items, meeting minutes, linked documents and reports, and closed caption text. Immediately after the live webcast, the synchronized webcast presentation is automatically archived in searchable format and can be accessed on-demand on the Internet. Citizens or internal government staff can search recorded webcasts based on simple keywords similar to popular Web search engines such as Google and Yahoo.

Pictron GovWebcast Solution enables City and County government to instantly webcast public meetings from its Web site without incurring any additional Internet bandwidth. The webcasting managed service is provided through the Pictron GovWebcast Center, which hosts and manages video streaming and synchronized meeting agenda items. Pictron GovWebcast Center is a comprehensive end-to-end solution to enable Cities and Counties instant deployment with internal staff support.

Pictron GovWebcast Solution expands local government public access far beyond cable TV broadcasting. The public not only can access meeting webcasts anytime, anywhere, but also in a more engaging and interactive searchable format that allows users to search webcasts based on agenda items, meeting minutes, linked documents, and closed caption text. User can jump to the exact position inside the synchronized streaming video based on search keywords.

Pictron GovWebcast Solution has a proven record, with customers spread all across the country. Among the many is Los Angeles County, the largest county in the U.S., with more than 10 million residents. Pictron solutions have also been adopted by mission critical customers such as the U.S. State Department, NASA, Comcast, the Federal Reserve Bank, and ABC Television Network. Pictron has developed the most advanced and scalable solution for local government webcast at unbelievably affordable prices.