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City Builder |
Citi Ventures |
Bringing transparency to the Opportunity Zone ecosystem for private investors, fund managers, wealth managers, and municipalities |
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SILLE |
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Helping leaders prepare for crisis by identifying whether local infrastructure is at risk of catastrophic failure |
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Helping municipalities and communities in Puerto Rico collect and use address data to improve emergency response |
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Join a community of hundreds working to transform America’s data into America’s innovation. |
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Not able to join a TOP sprint? Use our product development toolkit—based on the TOP sprint model—to create civic impact with open data. We cover user research, navigating federal data, and more. |
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where we bring together tech teams and collaborators to build digital products using open data. |
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“Participating in The Opportunity Project sprint was an invaluable experience for the City Builder team. The connections we made during the sprint gave us a wealth of insight into user needs, and our conversations with data stewards at the Census Bureau guided us toward data sets that helped us develop City Builder into a powerful platform for exploring place-based investments.” - Citi Ventures Team |
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How America’s Data Becomes America’s Innovation |
We facilitate 12-week product development cycles (called “sprints”) that pull together innovators from every sector. Tech teams join a sprint to build data-powered solutions to critical problems facing the public. Then, we match them with subject-matter experts, who offer valuable information and feedback. |
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Collaboration, Simplified |
We facilitate virtual collaboration across government, industry, and communities. In our sprints, cross-sector expertise is only an email, chat room, or call away. |
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Federal Data, Explained |
The Opportunity Project unlocks the potential of open data. We help teams find, understand, and integrate government data into products that provide value and help solve important problems. |
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Catalyzing Investment in Opportunity Zones |
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Category - Building Thriving Communities (2019 TOP Prize Challenge) |
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White House Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) |
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) |
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HOW TOP HELPED |
Through the TOP user engagement workshop, the Citi Ventures team had the opportunity to talk to investors and fund matchers, user advocates and community members, which inspired them to focus on how their end product might address multi-stakeholder needs. |
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American Community Survey 5-Year Data - U.S. Census Bureau |
Economic Research Service (ERS) - U.S. Department of Agriculture |
Database of Accredited Postsecondary Institutions and Programs (DAPIP) - U.S. Department of Education |
Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval (EDGAR) - U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission |
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Disaster Preparedness Using Geospatial Data |
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SILLE helps leaders prepare for crisis by identifying whether local infrastructure is at risk of catastrophic failure. |
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Younger and minority populations are less likely to have an emergency plan. |
Personal and family preparedness can greatly impact the ability that individuals and communities have to successfully and rapidly recover from a disaster. However, in the 2016 National Household Preparedness Survey, only 45% of respondents reported having a household emergency plan. Additionally, people who consider preparedness part of everyday life tend to be 65 years of age or older, white and male, while people who intend to prepare but have yet to get started tend to be 45 years of age or younger, black or Hispanic, and have children. |
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The Opportunity Project brought together tech teams, policy and data experts, and community groups to build products using geospatial data to help all people prepare for disasters. |
Over 50 participants joined the 2018 Geospatial sprint in different roles. Each role contributed a different set of knowledge and skills that can help create better-informed digital products like Sille. Built by Ovela and informed by multiple product and data experts, Sille uses satellite data and Census block data so stakeholders can understand when a vulnerable structure, like a bridge or a building, has shifted and therefore might be more susceptible to failure or collapse in a disaster. This allows for first responders to prepare and target specific areas where they can target their emergency response to during or after a natural disaster. |
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Today, Ovela’s connections from TOP have turned into a lasting partnership. |
Datel Ovela has continued its partnership with FEMA and is testing the use of this product in New York City for earthquake response and in Miami for flooding. |
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Tech teams are the companies, universities, non-profits, and students who build digital products in the sprints. They design, develop, and launch the products they build, and typically own and maintain the products after the sprints. The role of tech team includes: |
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Design and build a digital product that uses federal open data |
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Collaborate with other sprint participants including government data experts to explore and use available data sets, user advocates to understand user needs, and product advisors to develop a post-sprint product strategy |
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Conduct user research to ensure products are solving for real user needs |
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Join virtual “milestone” calls during the sprint to share progress, ask questions and provide feedback to other teams |
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Attend in-person Demo Day to present final products |
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Own and maintain the product after the sprint, or develop a strategy for handoff |
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Optional: attend an in-person user engagement workshop at the beginning of the sprint, and apply for a financial prize at the end of the sprint |
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Advance your mission |
Work on a problem statement that aligns with your mission or CSR interests |
Leverage sprint timeline and project management to advance internal lab or development projects |
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Develop business channels |
Develop sample use cases and prototypes that demonstrate internal tech capabilities |
Leverage sprint timeline and project management to advance internal lab or development projects |
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Gain access to cross-sector experts |
Access to federal data and policy experts for real time Q&A |
Access to end users for testing and feedback |
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Develop partnerships with user groups and other companies |
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Gain visibility and press from Demo Day and beyond |
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Designers, developers, and engineers from your organization have the opportunity to drive the design and build of the product |
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2020 Census Sprint |
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Create digital tools and resources to help get out the count during the 2020 Census. Challenges include: Bridging the digital divide, Increasing digital literacy, Promoting 2020 Census jobs, and Reaching hard-to-count communities. |
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Catalyzing Investment in Opportunity Zones |
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Teams from companies, universities, and more sign up to build digital products that use federal open data to help solve these challenges. |
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Modernizing Talent Discovery for High Growth Entrepreneurship |
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Create digital tools or open sourced data to transform talent discovery, matching, and retention in mid-size cities across the country, to help them achieve innovation and regional economic growth. |
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2019_workforce_problem_statements.pdf |
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Resources to Unleash American Entrepreneurship |
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Develop tools to empower entrepreneurs and innovation ecosystem builders to find and navigate the variety of resources available across the federal government. |
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Helping the American Workforce Leverage Multiple Pathways for Career Growth |
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Create digital tools that help American workers to consider and take advantage of the multiple pathways available to find or advance in careers, from making alternative pathways more attractive to making opportunities more discoverable |
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Promoting Access to and Interest in STEM Fields |
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Develop tools for parents and students that promote students’ interest in STEM and empower them to pursue STEM education locally. |
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Helping States Develop Education Report Cards |
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Develop parent-friendly, scalable approaches to communicating data about public schools that drive insight and engagement—and meet the requirements of a recent federal law. |
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2018-reportcard.pdf |
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Using AI to Connect Veterans with Registered Apprenticeships |
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Develop tools that use artificial intelligence algorithms or natural language processing technology to match veterans to registered apprenticeship programs. |
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Increasing Government Accountability by Connecting Federal Spending and Performance Data |
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Develop public facing tools that link federal spending and performance (or outcome) data to provide comprehensive insight into the use of federal taxpayer dollars across programs. |
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Improving Access to and Management of Federal Grants |
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Develop tools that expand on existing systems to help grant recipients manage the entire grants lifecycle, helping grant managers and recipients search for opportunities, streamline reporting, and assess risks. |
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Using Geospatial Data to Help People Prepare for Disasters |
2018 |
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Create digital tools that use data to help individuals and community leaders gain a better understanding of national and community hazards and threats and enable the public to take appropriate preparedness actions. |
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Harnessing Data and Leveraging Digital Tools to Combat the Opioid Crisis |
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Create digital tools and data sharing capabilities to support decisions across stakeholders responding to the opioid crisis, such as public health, public safety, law enforcement, community groups, the private sector, and individuals. |
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Helping Tribal, State, and Local Governments with Local Address Data Collection |
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Develop resources that help tribal, state, and local governments to create and maintain open address point data. |
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2018-address.pdf |
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Identifying and Strengthening Civic Environmental Stewardship |
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Develop tools that visualize and provide access to the patterns, overlaps, and gaps in environmental stewardship efforts in order to identify groups that support community quality of life and strengthen community resilience. |
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Federal agencies and advocacy organizations identify our nation’s most pressing social, economic, and environmental challenges. |
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Teams from companies, universities, and more sign up to build digital products that use federal open data to help solve these challenges. |
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Over 12 weeks, teams build their solutions. Experts provide feedback on user needs, product strategy, and the best datasets available to solve each problem. |
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Teams launch their products at our annual Demo Day showcase. Afterward, we continue to help teams deploy their solutions to their target end users. |
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LAUNCHED JUNE 2020 |
This year, teams are leveraging technology and open data to solve challenges related to the natural and built environment, such as disaster response, sustainable energy and communities, the blue economy, and more. |
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Finding federal data is hard. Making an impact with it is even harder. |
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We connect you with experts from the tech industry, communities, and government to help you turn federal open data into life-changing tech, faster. |
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Consumer-facing digital tools built through our sprints since 2016 <br><br> |
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TOP is building something that is new and really powerful. With government as a convener, it can get people together around a problem who wouldn’t otherwise be working together. |
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[TOP] really represents the best of what government can be — a platform for engagement that is so core to our democracy. |
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The emphasis on human-centered design and the opportunity to speak to all of these different advocates and stakeholders was key in creating a product that would actually help the end user. |
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Tech teams from industry and universities sign on to create data-driven, digital products in collaboration with end users, data and policy experts. |
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Tech teams build products during a 12 week virtual tech development sprint that includes user research, data exploration, and product development. Past products include mapping tools, apps, websites, games, AI algorithms, network visualizations, and more. |
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User research: Teams conduct user research and present what they’ve learned about their end user to cross-sector experts for feedback. |
Data discovery: Teams explore data sets from across government - curated by TOP - and connect with federal data stewards to present what they’ve learned and ask questions about how to find and work with federal data. |
Concept Pitch: Teams present their product concept for feedback. |
Beta Demo: Teams present a prototype of their product for feedback. |
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Products are launched and showcased at an in-person Demo Day press event in Washington DC. |
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After the sprint, participants work to ensure products reach end users and move the needle on national challenges. Teams have the option to apply for a financial prize to continue their work. |
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Tech teams build a product through the sprint — whether new or within an existing product or platform—that uses open data to solve one of our sprint problem statements. |
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Federal agencies identify challenges. Policy and federal data experts provide feedback and share insights about federal data and the policy context. |
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User advocates offer feedback and insights throughout the sprint. They are community leaders, local or national advocates, and people with direct lived experience in the target challenges. |
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Product advisors help tech teams develop products with a viable long term strategy that enables them to reach end users. |
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