Matthew.W.Ashby at stls.f
03-04-1999, 01:19 PM
I don't know the current status on the information contained in the
following message I wrote last year to a colleague. However, this
slightly edited version may offer something useful to those interested
in developing tracking systems.
Dr. Richard Kurz, the Dean of the School of Public Health at St. Louis
University, and Mark Hayes at St. Louis 2004 are bringing a software
database to St. Louis (St. Louis 2004 is a region-wide community
development project). It is expected to be on-line by midsummer 1998.
The software is called Accelerating Community Progress (ACT): A
Toolkit for Monitoring Progress. It was developed to facilitate the
community development process and to make community information,
projects, monitoring, and evaluation completely accessible to the
public.
It is my understanding ACT was developed through the national public
health community (public health is a standard component of mainstream
community development) and is making an early debut in St. Louis
thanks to St. Louis 2004, the public health working group, and Dr.
Kurz as a means to monitor the progress of 2004.
From the brief demonstration I have seen, the software is remarkable.
It has the ability to easily monitor outputs of specific programs and
serves as a friendly database manager of complete (exhaustive)
community information and resources in a Windows format.
What I found particularly interesting about ACT is the possibility
that it will probably render traditional community development project
resource management less desirable (useless). We will have to wait
and see.
For the present, I believe activities to create an electronic product
infrastructure will position efforts made today by community
development groups for compatibility with ACT or any of the other
electronic resources already on-line or being created. As you know,
if a new resource is electronic, accessible and fully integrated, it
may be accessed on-demand through any medium the customer chooses and
tailored by the customer to fit their unique circumstance.
I would underscore my personal opinion in the wisdom of making certain
that tracking and performance evaluation tools are Internet-based
applications. Everyone is probably aware of the Community Information
Network movement and similar efforts.
Matt Ashby
Community Development Specialist
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
matthew.w.ashby@stls.frb.org
The views and comments expressed our my own and do not reflect the
views, opinions, or positions of the Federal Reserve.
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following message I wrote last year to a colleague. However, this
slightly edited version may offer something useful to those interested
in developing tracking systems.
Dr. Richard Kurz, the Dean of the School of Public Health at St. Louis
University, and Mark Hayes at St. Louis 2004 are bringing a software
database to St. Louis (St. Louis 2004 is a region-wide community
development project). It is expected to be on-line by midsummer 1998.
The software is called Accelerating Community Progress (ACT): A
Toolkit for Monitoring Progress. It was developed to facilitate the
community development process and to make community information,
projects, monitoring, and evaluation completely accessible to the
public.
It is my understanding ACT was developed through the national public
health community (public health is a standard component of mainstream
community development) and is making an early debut in St. Louis
thanks to St. Louis 2004, the public health working group, and Dr.
Kurz as a means to monitor the progress of 2004.
From the brief demonstration I have seen, the software is remarkable.
It has the ability to easily monitor outputs of specific programs and
serves as a friendly database manager of complete (exhaustive)
community information and resources in a Windows format.
What I found particularly interesting about ACT is the possibility
that it will probably render traditional community development project
resource management less desirable (useless). We will have to wait
and see.
For the present, I believe activities to create an electronic product
infrastructure will position efforts made today by community
development groups for compatibility with ACT or any of the other
electronic resources already on-line or being created. As you know,
if a new resource is electronic, accessible and fully integrated, it
may be accessed on-demand through any medium the customer chooses and
tailored by the customer to fit their unique circumstance.
I would underscore my personal opinion in the wisdom of making certain
that tracking and performance evaluation tools are Internet-based
applications. Everyone is probably aware of the Community Information
Network movement and similar efforts.
Matt Ashby
Community Development Specialist
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
matthew.w.ashby@stls.frb.org
The views and comments expressed our my own and do not reflect the
views, opinions, or positions of the Federal Reserve.
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