Open Community Survey
Project Overview
Status:
Active
Partner: LA Department of Neighborhood Empowerment (DONE), LA Neighborhood Councils (NCs), LA Department of Transportation (LADOT), LA City Planning Department (LACP)
Location: Remote
Links: GitHub, Slack, Overview
Tools: ArcGIS surveys, Figma, Google Docs, Zoom
Languages:
Technologies: Markdown
The Open Community Survey project creates transparent reports supported by a direct collection of personal perspectives from LA residents to help The LA Department of Neighborhood Empowerment (empowerla.org) and the Los Angeles Neighborhood Councils (NCs) to understand how constituents are interacting with, and what they need from, their websites.
Current project: NC website survey; Most NCs do not have access or resources to hire technical experts necessary to create a citywide survey so that they can use the data to create inclusive websites targeted towards the needs of their specific communities. Working with EmpowerLA and NCs, Hack for LA is providing the workforce and expertise to design and implement this survey that will give NCs a tool to understand the overall needs of their community -- beyond the people already involved in NCs.
Value
Problem
Most Neighborhood Councils do not have access or resources to hire technical experts necessary to create a citywide survey so that they can use the data to create inclusive websites targeted towards the needs of their specific communities.
Solution
The Open Community Survey project creates transparent reports supported by a direct collection of personal perspectives from LA residents to help The LA Department of Neighborhood Empowerment (empowerla.org) and the Los Angeles Neighborhood Councils to understand how constituents are interacting with, and what they need from, their websites.
Impact
We are currently drafting the Impact statement for this project.
Sustainable Development Goal
Resources
Current Project Team
Name: Bonnie Wolfe
Role: Agile Coach
Name: Kalyani Raman
Role: Product Manager
Name: Ambareen Sultana
Role: Product Manager
Name: Mary Kate Leibman
Role: UI/UX Designer/Researcher
Name: Snow
Role: UX Researcher
Name: Tugba Metinyurt
Role: Researcher