Put simply, Community engagement seeks to better engage the community to achieve long-term and sustainable relationships, discourse, decision-making, or outcomes. The public dashboard helps Councils ‘Walk the talk’ to apply their values directly and set an example to others. Further, the public dashboard is a highly visible mechanism to build and develop the public's trust. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants meaning transparency about the workings of an organization gives the public overall confidence in their Council. Moverover, see that any constraints to desired outcomes are clearly communicated, and that direction is agreed as far as possible.