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Back in the fall of 2002, the Center for Digital Government released their Digital State Survey ranking the progress states were making toward adopting digital government. Kentucky's highest ranking, 2nd place, came in the category of digital democracy partly because of the work of Kentucky Educational Television (KET). Since 2000, KET has been providing online streaming video coverage of the Kentucky General Assembly as a public service to the citizens of the Commonwealth, or anyone who has Internet access worldwide. Video from both the Senate and House chambers and committee meetings are available on the KET website and on the Kentucky Legislature website. KET offers archived video as well. According to Paul
Stackhouse, KET's Webmaster, "KET
is honored to be able to offer live and archived video streaming of
the state legislature to the citizens of Kentucky. Since January of
2000, users as diverse as high school civics students and university
presidents have connected to our Internet-delivered live legislative
coverage. We have reports from Kentucky's congressional delegation in
Washington as well as national organizations of state officers thanking
us for making the live and archived video available." KET's Communications
Office noted that streaming video is an extension of KET's long time
commitment to public affairs coverage which includes candidate, election,
legislative coverage as well as two weekly series- Kentucky Tonight
and Comment on Kentucky- each of which is streamed and/or archived on
the KET website. Streaming is a good example of how KET is partnering
with the legislature and the Legislative Research Commission to bring
important issues to the public. See also:
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