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Community Networking Group (CNG) January 24, 2017 Meeting - Compass Points Deeper Dive

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Diversity Council Dee Sabol used the following to trigger conversations on "what does Compass Points" point to next.

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Community Network Group: 1/24/2017 CNG Meeting Minutes

Attendees:

Agencies represented included:

Rochester Area Foundation ; Bolder Options ; County of Olmsted, MN ; Diversity Council ; IBM On Demand Community ; Legal Assistance of Olmsted County ; Mayo ClinicRochester Public LibraryUnited Way of Olmsted County ; University of Minnisota Rochester ;  Rochester Area Family Y ; Alliance of Chicanos

Community Programs represented included:

Collaborative Leadership Fellow Program, City for Good Education

Agencies/Program Reps couldn't attend due to conflict:

Olmsted County Public Health Services , Otto Bremer Trust , Channel One Regional Food Bank, Minnesota Children's Museum - Rochester

 

CNG January 24, 2017 Meeting Notes

What and how we can use Olmsted/Rochester Compass Points 2016 to drive community progress?

 

Compass Points - Deeper Dive

Diversity Council Dee Sabol used the following to trigger conversations on "what does Compass Points" point to next.

 

 

 

 


 

Viewpoints from attendees:

 

1. What's next?

2. Data Analysis: agreement there is a need to make sense of the data to determine which social areas are important and the contributing factors: How affected groups are performing relative to each other? What is the baseline? What is trending? Concern that too general an aggregation may hide underlying subgroup's performance, eg. Asian grouping hides the fact that many subgroups are suffering.

3. Technology Enablement Opportunity: Opportunity to leverage Rochester's high-tech resources such as: IBM Turbo Teams that are working with a number of area non-profits on data collection and analytics. Examples include: 1. IBM Watson big data analysis tools. 2. Cognitive computing technologies 3. Cloud based smarter city solutions in both aggregation as well as disaggregation of data.

4. Data aggregation discussions - what to aggregate and how. Conversations around data feeds from individual sources. Legal and privacy issues? How often collection of data feeds are to occur? A number of this type of agency concerns indicate a potential for "technologists" to hold education or dialogs to hear those concerns as well as to explain the state of the art in data integration schema that can forward anonymous information on measurements while protecting individual identities. Mayo Clinic is a major contributor to open source genomic information sharing research. The Obama administration was active working on open data sharing and warehousing. 

5. Framework for actions: Some concern about inaction if we get bogged down with data collection, metrics prioritization talks. An agile community could do both. Have on-going top-down metrics conversations based on Compass Points or DMC or Community Health while enabling bottom-up efforts that clearly identify their objectives, results and measures.  Top-down and bottom-up when practices with intention and tooling support will avoid in-actions and lead to a meet-in-the-middle operational model.  The webtool dashboard.dmcbeam.org is a grass-roots tool to beam up this model.

6. Role of CNG: CNG purpose is networking and info sharing .. Come learn about what's going on and not so much decide what you should do.


 

Take Away

1. The Y is participating in "Rochester Youth Network" concept .Dawn Lubahn (dawnl@rochfamy.org) has more information. She wants to involve Al on this from team tooling perspective.

2. George Thompson and Al Lun one-on-one after the meeting wondered how we can broadcast the potential of Community Beam as a tool for info sharing and measurements hub. Possibilities include:

- Connected up area higher-ed. The theory is that most innovative communities have an intentional tie-in with universities. (Austin, Boston, Boulder, etc).

- How host a "training" meeting on the navigation, usage and improvement ideas for dmcbeam.org

3. CNG meets on last Thursday of the month. Next meeting's agenda is Transit Updates. 

 

References:

What is Compass Points?

PB Op Ed

 

 


 

 

  

 

Related Reports


 

Other Maintain and Evolve the 2016 Rochester/Olmsted County Compass Points (Community Dashboard) Pinned Reports


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Impact Lvl1: Metrics
Impact Lvl2:

In the public comments portion of the May 25, 2023 DMCC Board meeting, Al Lun reminded DMCC Board the need to update the DMC Metrics Dashboard per Tax revenue metrics September 2019 memo

2024-03-10 added YouTube video clip 

Sep 20, 2019 Memo to DMCC Board  about DMC Dashboard to be updated twice a year

Tax revenue metrics



April 27, 2021 : Minnesota Compass
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Impact Lvl2:

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February 24, 2016 : Community Dashboard - CNG coodintating funding request to build Community Dashboard.
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Impact Lvl2:

CNG Steering Committee is forwarding request for City funding.



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Pinned openBEAM.net organization and project reports


. Project Report of Maintain and Evolve the 2016 Rochester/Olmsted County Compass Points (Community Dashboard) : March 10, 2024 : DMC Dashboard Metrics Portal
Impact Lvl1: Metrics
Impact Lvl2:

In the public comments portion of the May 25, 2023 DMCC Board meeting, Al Lun reminded DMCC Board the need to update the DMC Metrics Dashboard per Tax revenue metrics September 2019 memo

2024-03-10 added YouTube video clip 

Sep 20, 2019 Memo to DMCC Board  about DMC Dashboard to be updated twice a year

Tax revenue metrics



Project Report of Maintain and Evolve the 2016 Rochester/Olmsted County Compass Points (Community Dashboard) : April 27, 2021 : Minnesota Compass
Impact Lvl1: Education, Metrics, OpenBeam, Public Safety, Technology Enablement
Impact Lvl2:

OpenBeam presentation at MN Compass, RPL workshop



Project Report of Maintain and Evolve the 2016 Rochester/Olmsted County Compass Points (Community Dashboard) : May 08, 2018 : CNG Steering Committee working on 2018 Compass Points
Impact Lvl1: Basic Needs, Best Practice, Caring Relationship, Children & Youth, Diversity and Inclusion, Housing, Metrics, Public Safety, Sustainability, Transportation, Workforce Development
Impact Lvl2:

CNG Steering Committee is working on the next version of Rochester/Olmsted County Compass report.



Project Report of Maintain and Evolve the 2016 Rochester/Olmsted County Compass Points (Community Dashboard) : October 30, 2016 : CNG Releases Compass Points 2016, City of Rochester and Olmsted County
Impact Lvl1: Best Practice, Business Process, Children & Youth, Diversity and Inclusion, Economic Development, Health, Housing, Income, Public Safety, Sustainability, Technology Enablement, Transportation, Workforce Development
Impact Lvl2:

 2016-10-27 CNG releases Compass Points in today's meeting.



Project Report of Community Dashboard : May 21, 2016 : Community Beam presentations
Impact Lvl1: Best Practice, Business Process, Technology Enablement, Workforce Development
Impact Lvl2:

openBEAM.net presentations on Community Beam, a community assets portal, to Community for Health and CLF.  



Project Report of Maintain and Evolve the 2016 Rochester/Olmsted County Compass Points (Community Dashboard) : February 24, 2016 : Community Dashboard - CNG coodintating funding request to build Community Dashboard.
Impact Lvl1: Aging, Best Practice, Diversity and Inclusion, Economic Development, Technology Enablement
Impact Lvl2:

CNG Steering Committee is forwarding request for City funding.



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