« Granicus Releases iLegislate 1.4 »

Today we’ve released a new version of iLegislate. The past few years have proven that the iPad is a tranformative platform for government. Governing on the iPad has never been easier, nor more empowering, than it is today with our complete digital agenda solution for the iPad: iLegislate.

iLegislate is revolutionizing the traditional meeting agenda. It provides fingertip access to up-to-date public meeting materials and rich media, significantly decreasing the amount of work required to sift through large volumes of paper to prepare for a meeting.

Here are some of key features of iLegislate 1.4:

PDF attachment annotation capability

Highlight, underline, bookmark, capture notes

Rapid agenda review

Get a snapshot of each agenda item and suggested actions from a single interface

Connects and syncs with the Granicus cloud

Redundant backups and access to your agenda packet data online and off

Integrates with government solutions

Seamlessly connects agenda functionality with Granicus’ Transparency, Meeting Efficiency, and Legislative Management Suite products

Watch video of related meetings

Research across indexed and archived public meeting videos

Support for toggling between apps

If you leave the app, your work is not lost, simply resume in the exact place where you left off

While those are the things that are in the app, I think the most impressive thing is what’s not there: paper, binders, folders, pens, pencils, post-it notes, highlighters, shuffling, information delays, organizational efforts, manual distribution, copying, printing, and large brief bags.

iLegislate is the first iPad app designed exclusively to help government agencies reduce their dependency on printed agenda packets in their public meetings. And the numbers have been coming in, demonstrating the paper saving power: by reducing 75-100% of paper use for meetings, government agencies are seeing annual savings of $2,000 - $10,000.

Governments’ shift to a digital environment for their recordkeeping will be gradual, however, with apps like iLegislate, we hope to increase the speed of adoption and potentially save governments millions of dollars in material and printing costs over the lifetime of their solution.

See the new features of iLegislate 1.4 at our upcoming webinar on November 6, 2012 – Click here to register.

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