Sharing our Findings, Getting your Feedback
The Economic Development Subcommittee presents to OpenOakland
May 13, 2014
Getting Started
Motivating Factors
Motivating Factors
Our History and Process
• Focus on economic development was shared by folks who met at City Camp in Nov 2013
• Identified a preliminary list of stakeholders for outreach around Dec ‘13/Jan ‘14.
• Set up a fairly open definition for goals and outcomes, that we evolved over time
Our Shared Resources
Whom To Reach Out To• Outreach List - Targets and Tracking• Script
Who We Are• Internal Skills Inventory
• Form• Spreadsheet
• Presentation about Open Oakland
Outcomes• Copious Notes (on Google Drive)• Final Project List
Who We Talked To
• Kami Griffiths - Community Technology Network• Sarah Filley - PopUp Hood• Max Cadji - Phat Beets• Susan Montauk - Oakland Parks Commission• Eleanor Hollander - Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce• Reverend Daniel Buford - Allen Temple Baptist Church• Susan Mernit - Live Work Oakland• Mario Lugay and Tiffany Price - Kapor Center• Dennis Rojas - East Bay Job Developers• Steve Snider - Downtown Oakland Association• Anne Price and Gabriela Sandoval - Insight Center for Community
Economic Development• Kelley Kahn, Aliza Gallo, and Rachel Flynn - City of Oakland’s
Economic Development and Planning Departments• Jay Standish - Open Door Development• Angela Hadwin - Hope Collaborative of East Oakland• Julian McQueen - Green for All
What We Heard:Skill Development
• Automate the updating of Insight Center for Community Economic Development’s Elder and Family Economic Self-Sufficiency Standard tools
• An alternative to the CalJobs site• Mentors/tech tutors
What We Heard:Mapping Resources,
Needs, & Opportunities• Mapping digital access points
• Connect Chicago Get Connected Oakland• Create a See Click Fix-style tool for reporting
neighborhood crime• Map showing availability of fresh food from un-
traditional sources in East Oakland• Falling Fruit Concrete Jungle• Forage City Forage Oakland
• Analyzing data on commercial property vacancies • Identifying and sharing what the community wants in
vacant spaces• Spot Mojo Neighborland
http://www.spotmojo.com/landing
What We Heard:Improving City Processes
• A new system to track and expedite buildings and permits• CivicInsight OpenCounter• BizFriend.ly Development FastPass
• A better system to connect potential volunteers with Park & Rec project needs
We have an opportunity to work with the HOPE Collaborative to increase civic participation in Deep East Oakland.
Next Steps
We’d like to pick a project that is informed by what we’ve heard. Do we...
• Retrofit an existing tool?• Create something new?• Start a project that is not focused on a tool (i.e.
mentoring)?• Something else?
Help us decide!
Next Steps (alternate)
● How can we determine what’s a good project for OO to work on?○ Something that retrofits an existing tool vs
creates something new?○ How about projects not focused on building a tool
(i.e. mentoring)?○ Should city data necessarily be involved?
● How should we loop back with the “requesters”?● What is the timeline we can realistically commit to?
Help us decide!
