Strategic Planning Metrics - HenrikBechmann/CivicTechTO-TorontoBudget GitHub Wiki

#Strategic goal

The strategic goal of a Civic Tech Toronto Budget project should be to achieve a measurable constructive change of behaviour on the part of a target audience participation in the budget decision making process.

Here's a broad open data goal put forward by the Detroit Digital Justice coalition: access, participation, common ownership, and healthy communities

The general idea would be to measure effectiveness and efficiency of budget decisions, through effective and efficient participation

Metrics

To identify such a project, the following general metrics are available

Audience

  • city open data people
  • city finance people
  • civic society groups including betterbudget.ca people
  • frontline city workers
  • councillors and their staff
  • neighbourhood groups
  • media people

Capital Investments vs Operating Expenditures

Capital budget items may be of more interest for local issues, but the fpars capital budgeting system implementation is said to be behind that of the operating budget system

Local Performance vs Central Policies

Frontline vs Backoffice

Departmental Depth vs General breadth

Pick a department to focus on?

Participation: consultation vs decision making

The experimental participation project; regional councils?; central consultation; local consultation. The better budget to recommendations

User Benefit vs City (staff) Benefit

Data availability

Open Data; Budget Pages; FPARS; SAP PBF (see below)

See also

See also