The City of New Orleans should:

1) Create a NolaStat Data Catalog, replicating D.C. Data Catalog model, to improve public access to information about city operations.

2) Create NolaStat Accountability Sessions, modeled after Baltimore’s CitiStat process, D.C.’s CapStat process, and other successful “stat” processes in more than a dozen other cities where weekly performance review has been the path toward increased efficiency, quality, and equity in city services.

3) Create a NolaStat Office of Transparency & Accountability, staffed with technical professionals and analysts, to institutionalize the NolaStat reform model, bring expertise to the process, and follow best practices.

Separately:

4) The formation of “The NolaStat Project” as a non-governmental organization would provide independent oversight of reforms, outreach to the community, and engage the public in innovative activities such as an “Apps for New Orleans” contest.

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