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

16.8: Broaden and strengthen the awareness and participation of City and local communities, especially those traditionally underserved and marginalized, in the institutions of local and global governance.