City Business: ‘Nasty decisions’ expected from city’s interim tech chief

New Orleans City Business reporter Jennifer Larino wrote an excellent article a couple of weeks ago on the reforms Mayor Landrieu will need to tackle to in order to modernize the city’s IT infrastructure.
The administration has already begun to shift toward adopting NolaStat recommendations:
One of the more significant changes the interim CIO is expected… »

Times-Picayune opinion: Better data will build a better city

A NolaStat opinion piece published in The Times-Picayune calls on incoming Mayor Mitch Landrieu to commit to an open government policy on his first day in office.
The city needs to get out of the business of attempting to build flashy applications, and instead focus on making good, timely, reliable data easily available online. Once that… »

Times-Picayune opinion: Data on-line could jump-start activism

Mayor-elect Mitch Landrieu announced yesterday that he’s tapped former D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams as a corporate leadership consultant. Williams’ leadership was cited in a NolaStat opinion piece almost two years ago as an example for New Orleans to follow. That’s progress.
Data on-line could jump-start activism
August 22, 2008, 5:24PM
Brian Denzer
Just as Hurricane Katrina forced the Army… »

Congratulations Mitch!

The election of Mitch as mayor with 66% of the vote was a landslide. In the election map completed for NolaStat (3 MB PDF), it’s clear that Mitch won every precinct except for one near Lake Catherine where Georges picked up 12 votes to get the majority. The attached map clearly shows that Mitch won… »

An engine for increasing the velocity of democracy

It’s an accepted truth that a healthy democracy requires citizens who participate in the civic life of their communities, and who engage with government institutions. But while civic participation is vital for a healthy democracy, it’s an inadequate prescription.
Government institutions also have to effectively engage and respond to citizen concerns, and by extension, government institutions… »

Times-Picayune opinion: What gets measured gets done

New Orleans is remarkably similar to Baltimore …
When Martin O’Malley was sworn in as mayor of Baltimore in 1999, he inherited a $153 million deficit and 16,000 city employees who, he said, were “wallowing in a culture of failure.” O’Malley identified the source of citizen frustration with Baltimore’s high crime rate, failing schools and broken… »

NolaStat Powerpoint presentation

A NolaStat presentation was delivered to the steering committee of EngageNOLA on October 12th. This was merely a briefing to inform interested members of the ideas offered in the NolaStat policy reform.
EngageNOLA is not endorsing policy issues, but is motivated by an intereste in raising education and discourse on issues of interest to voters:
EngageNOLA is… »

Eric Asher talks about the NolaStat Policy Reform on 690 AM

Listen here

 
If you go to the WIST archive, the interview starts at about 25 minutes into the 2 p.m. hour on the 9/17/09… »

NolaStat on WWL TV’s Eyewitness News

A moment in time that helped to raise awareness of the NolaStat reform — this was WWL TV reporter Scott Satchfield’s report on the presentation to the City Council Governmental Affairs Committee on January 15, 2009. Click the image below to see the report on… »

NolaStat video presentation to the New Orleans City Council

Barack the data! from NolaStat on… »