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