Sustainable City Year Reports 2018-19 (Eugene and Gresham)

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    Open Data Policies and Management in Eugene
    (University of Oregon, 2019-09) Dangal, Agraj; Ault, Sam; Burdette, Eric; Cobb, Arron; Rhodewalt, Amelia; Clark, Benjamin
    This report covers the City of Eugene’s current data management process with an emphasis on parking policies, including recommendations to improve the way the City collects, uses, and stores data. Upon interviewing department managers, students discovered that the City currently has no open data plan to engage the public and local businesses in orchestrating the kind of changes the City would like to see. The interview uncovered that City management desires to move into a co-production and citizen science-based process. The City is currently trying something similar to this type of data collection, called Vision Zero. Vision Zero was made available to the public in October 2016, but it has collected only forty-three data points to date. The program was launched without a marketing campaign, and appears to go unused by most citizens. Factors that contributed to the lack of an open data management plan included the overwhelming amount of data being collected monthly, incompatibility between legacyfrom not having a clear way to handle the sharing of data with potential stakeholders, to not having an easy way to respond to public records requests, to not having a clear understanding of what citizens want to see regarding changes in how they navigate and use space within the city. After concluding a literature review, assessing the implementation of Vision Zero, and considering the desire of city management to move toward an open data plan, it is our recommendation that the City consider launching a major marketing campaign highlighting Vision Zero. It is also the opinion of this workgroup that the City move toward a more structured data management system using an informal records request system where data is freely available for download on a City website. This data should be processed to remove any private information prior to being made available for download. Finally, this workgroup recommends that the City consider expanding its workforce to accommodate the needs of this new platform. systems and current systems, and no uniform system or protocol for storing and sharing data in a meaningful way. Problems that have resulted from not having an open data plan varied