Everyone benefits from the NolaStat

NolaStat would:

• Help the City Council do its job by making information readily available, thus reducing the volume of constituent requests.
• Help the Office of the Mayor by making performance metrics readily available so that the efficacy of initiatives can be improved.
• Improve the quality and efficiency of city services by reducing waste while focusing on citizen concerns.
• Improve citizen confidence in their government by providing the highest transparency standard possible – open records.
• Reduce the burden on city staff of public records requests.
• Remove politics and personality from the process of responding to information requests.
• Give neighborhoods direct and equal access to information needed to rebuild without having to “know” someone in City Hall.
• Bypass City Hall contractors by allowing citizen groups to develop their own applications using city data to answer their particular information needs.
• Increase timely neighborhood access to land use issues as required by the Master Plan.
• Reduce the cost of outsourcing to IT vendors who make exuberant sales pitches for costly applications that aren’t usable, and that don’t provide credible information.
• Allow city officials to spend more solving constituent problems, and less time responding to requests for information.
• Increase and improve the quality of citizen participation, leading to healthier democratic institutions, and happier constituents.
• Ensure fair, equitable distribution of government services to all neighborhoods and constituents.
• Modernize the city’s information systems infrastructure to improve data flows and coordination between city departments.
• Place New Orleans on the map as a recognized national leader in government reform.

Read more about NolaStat in this brief summary, read the full NolaStat report, or download the NolaStat brochure — and feel free to distribute.

You can also get a bumper sticker from the media toolkit to proudly display your support for government reform in New Orleans.