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The future
After working on ScrAPD and looking at what other cities were doing we identified a new problem: all the cities/organizations want to achieve the same goal of delivering information to the public and therefore duplicate a ton of efforts! This results in a lot of volunteer time potentially "wasted" reinventing the wheel.
A solution to this problem would be to create a platform that could be shared among cities and organizations nationwide.
Cities/organizations would be able to plug in their data and the platform would render it on a dashboard and generate a series of deliverables. The goal would be to show interactive graphs, maps and statistics. The data sets would be publicly and easily available.
Cities/Organizations are also providing other artifacts like progress trackers and score cards to keep the people involved accountable. This should be implemented when possible/applicable.
Before diving into coding, building tools and pipelines and promoting our new endeavor, we must research how to actually help cities and organizations.
This part is now well documented. We have an exhausted list of states and cities which pledged to implement Vision Zero, as well as a comprehensive list of of the resources made available to the public. Our inventory also contains the local organizations involved in the program for each city.
We noticed that outside of the hyper local level, cities/organizations don't really talk to each others, let alone share information, feedback or ideas.
We should contact ALL cities and organizations in our list to:
- See if they need help and how to help them.
- identify their needs. Do they really need another mapping system or a dashboard? Is there something else they have been trying to implement but never go the resources? etc...
- If they have feedback or advice.
- If they would be potentially interested to participate to our new venture.
- If we could pitch just 1 volunteer per state, that would already be fantastic.
- Maybe they can provided assistance or resources in another manner
We should prepare an email template to simplify this process as well as ensure consistency between these initial communications. We will certainly learn a lot along the process, so we should plan it in small batches (for instances 5 cities at a time), and make the necessary adjustments to our templates before sending the next batch.