Connecting People with the Process

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Our City is an engagement platform that provides greater accessibility and transparency into the City’s governing process.

1. Identify a Concept

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Project Manager, Developer

Bobbi Dahlstrom: Marketing, Sales, Attorney

Matt Barthelemy: Community Outreach and Engagement

Ben Rosas: Developer

Ben Ortega: Developer

2. Build a Team

➔ Difficult to find information

➔ Unclear how to participate➔ Convoluted messaging➔ Communication mismatch

Perpetuates the systemic disparities between the haves and the have-nots.

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How will we efficiently get information about what is going on at City Hall?

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➔ Social media

➔ Through organizations

➔ GOTV tie-in

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Community Organizations

➔Events

➔Notifications

➔Conversations

➔Maps

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res Polis Conversations -- interactive comment and opinion polls show majority and

minority consensus groups and the comments that differentiate them.Conversations from http://pol.is are integrated into Our City issues.

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esInteractive Maps via ArcGis Online integrated into OurCity to help citizens discover political, geographic and demographic features.

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OurCity.MN@ourcitymn

facebook.com/ourcitymnDemo: ourcity.herokuapp.com

Code Repository: github.com/ourcity/minneapolisThe

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1. Identify a problem2. Pull together a team

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Engage Target Communities

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How did we get here?