At a glance
- Who: Chattanooga; Jigsaw; Change.org.
- What: Chattanooga is piloting an initiative called Civic Dialogue through which creative, community-driven solutions to local challenges will be identified.
- Why: Project aims to further build on mayor Tim Kelly’s use of Google AI products to increase productivity, provide better answers faster, and ultimately help restore faith in City government
- When: Until mid-August, all residents of Chattanooga will have the opportunity to share their ideas about parks and public transportation in the city.
The City is working with Jigsaw and Change.org to pilot Civic Dialogue to help identify creative and community-driven solutions to local challenges it faces.
The City of Chattanooga, Tennessee, is piloting an initiative called Civic Dialogue through which creative, community-driven solutions to local challenges will be identified.
Until mid-August, all residents of Chattanooga will have the opportunity to share their ideas about parks and public transportation in the city at Chattanooga’s Civic Dialogue.
Live virtual dialogue
The pilot is conducted in partnership with Jigsaw, a tech incubator within Google, and Change.org, a platform for social change. Once the survey closes, Change.org and Jigsaw’s Sensemaking AI will analyse the results to identify the ideas that resonate most across all participants. A group of residents will then be invited to a live virtual dialogue, where they’ll develop those ideas into policy proposals.
This project aims to further build on mayor Tim Kelly’s use of Google AI products to increase productivity, provide better answers faster, and ultimately help restore faith in City government. The mayor has committed to reviewing the proposals and identifying points of consensus that emerge from this process to see how the city might support them.
“I’m looking for community feedback to maximise resources and services for Chattanoogans as part of the One Chattanooga goal of providing efficient and effective government,” said Kelly.
“I believe using this technology can help the City of Chattanooga identify priorities that are most important to all Chattanoogans, particularly around modernising our transportation systems and improving our parks and greenways.”
Change.org reports it has run similar initiatives in Albuquerque, New Mexico; Kansas City, Missouri; Memphis, Tennessee; Hartford, Connecticut; Bozeman, Montana; Columbia, South Carolina; Dearborn, Michigan; Columbia, Missouri; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Erie, Pennsylvania; Carmel, Indiana; and Schenectady, New York State.
Jigsaw, which has led civic engagement projects at the county, state, and national levels across the US, will support the Civic Dialogue in Chattanooga by helping synthesise insights from the discussion, enrich the final analysis, and build a new data-driven playbook for municipal action.
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