Chahla will travel to Maryland to take part in training on data management and use. She was chosen from cities across the continent.
The city of San Miguel de Tucumán was selected to participate in a US program on data analysis and effective public sector management. The mayor Rossana Chahla He will travel next week to Baltimore (Maryland) to take part in the meeting to which only two Argentine municipalities were invited.
The “Bloomberg Philanthropies City Data Alliance” program is promoted by Johns Hopkins University, the oldest educational research institution in the United States. The in-person meeting will take place from the night of June 26 to the afternoon of the 28th and throughout the project – which lasts six months – executive education, coaching and consulting classes will be given.
The capital of Tucumán and Mendoza were the two Argentine cities accepted, from among a range of applicant jurisdictions from across the American continent. The goal of the training is to provide “the tools to leverage data to advance equity, engage and inspire residents, and solve today’s biggest urban challenges,” according to the group.
The presentation at the University will serve to formally kick off the project, connect the data strategy to the mayors’ priorities, gather input from the city team on existing data practices, and encourage the team to commit to the program.
After the face-to-face meeting, different meetings will be held to plan the program and review the data strategy, which will finally be launched in January 2025. “We will use data to track progress and measure impact. We will support our cities to cultivate a culture of data-informed decision-making with the aim of producing lasting changes,” reads the call.
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In the City Data Alliance, cities will also have the opportunity to connect with a network of mayor leaders and learn from their experiences, in order to establish a new standard for global data use practices in jurisdictions.
Among them, the Bloomberg program gives Seattle (Washington) and Montevideo (Uruguay) as examples. The American city highlights in its strategy the creation of a customer service application that reduced the response time to complaints about illegal waste from 30 to 5 days and eliminated a backlog of 2,000 work orders.
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Meanwhile, it is indicated that the data strategy promoted by the Uruguayan mayor thanks to the City Data Alliance “saved lives during the city’s multifaceted response to a recent water crisis,” through the promotion of updated information in real time. to residents and the identification of safe reserves of well water.
Broadly, the data strategy seeks to develop a vision and a three-year action plan with the purpose of improving outcomes for residents in terms of governance, quality, use, capacity and transparency.
Among the points that the program frames as objectives are: the promotion of a culture based on values and informed by data that lasts beyond the current administration, the creation of a data strategy to take advantage of emerging technology and the commitment of the city to use data to enhance results.
