SavSignals: Public Data Forum and Chatham Quality of Life Data Mural

Imagine if a local Boys and Girls Club director had information about which neighborhoods had growing numbers of at-risk children to help focus their outreach to families in need. Or if a housing agency could identify a neighborhood’s elderly homeowners to share information about home safety improvement programs. Such “what if” scenarios are possible when organizations can access and interpret relevant data to increase their impact.

For our final bi-monthly launchpad of 2017, Open Savannah is partnering with Coastal Georgia Indicators Coalition and Starlandia Supply to hold a joint public feedback session and collaborative data mural night based on the coalition's 2018 Chatham Community Blueprint for community data prioritization. We're excited to announce that we'll also have a special guest in attendance for the evening, Code for America's founder Jennifer Pahlka. Jen will be kicking off the evening by discussing similar neighborhood indicators efforts underway in other cities.

We'll offer feedback to the Coalition's leadership via live voting, then visualize the results of that feedback along with other community data indicators on a giant tarp with paint and creative display methods, which we'll later hang in Forsyth Park.

Catering will be provided at 6 p.m. by Coastal Georgia Indicators. Lizann Roberts, CGiC's director, will assist Open Savannah in facilitating the workshop portion of the evening, while Clinton Edminster of Starlandia Supply will oversee the data mural painting project.