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Empowering Mayors with Equitable Data Strategies

  • Category Innovation Strategy, Data Equity
  • Client The Bloomberg Center for Government Excellence
  • Start Date 01 March 2022
  • Handover 09 June 2022
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Opportunity

  • The Bloomberg Philanthropies City Data Alliance supports mayors across 100 cities in North, Central and South America to harness data and set a new standard for using data to power better results for residents. Participating mayors receive a six-month acceleration program including executive education and individualized coaching, as well as consultation and up to 12 months investment to improve a critical data practice.
  • As leaders of the City Data Alliance initiative, The Bloomberg Center for Government Excellence aimed to first understand the nuances of culture across its growing global portfolio, then clarify and streamline its approach to data equity across teams including Research + Analytics, Learning + Development, and Technical Assistance + Coaching. Doing so would strengthen their ability to consult and advise mayors across the globe.
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Approach

Axle produced a series of workshops and co-design sessions deployed through a multi-day retreat to support defining and alignment on data equity strategy.

Instructional design components included sessions on collaboration structures with program partners, co-design 'pods' to identify equity intersections within assigned portfolios, a historical analysis on demography across the Latin American portfolio and the impact of culture, colonialism and narrative framing on marginalized groups across Mexico, Brazil, Uruguay, Chile and Argentina. In addition, Axle facilitators led teams through a deep dive into equity in open data collection, analysis, and visualization. As a team is only as impactful as the leadership that guides it, the strategy retreat began and concluded with facilitated dialogue across leadership to grapple with the question, "how do we team?" Insights were used to formalize the research and coaching strategy and identity metrics for the now-adopted Standard of Living Explorer.

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  • Instructional Design
  • Experience Design
  • Dialogue Facilitation
  • Narrative Strategy
  • Innovation Strategy
  • Policy Analysis
  • Executive Coaching
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