The site allowed residents to create data points about public infrastructure that were either assets or deficits. These points were overlaid on a spatial socioeconomic vulnerability index we created from Mexican census data, as well as points where current infrastructure projects were being built. Residents of the city could identify needed and/or successful infrastructure projects in real time from a computer or smartphone by searching for an address or pointing and clicking on the map and filling out a short questionnaire. The result was a powerful application for infrastructure investment in poorly developed urban and peri-urban neighborhoods throughout the dense metro area, designed to aid policymakers in identifying locations where investment was needed most and pinpointing where existing projects were successful. I designed the with a straightforward, sequenced layout, to allow lay people to bypass the technical skill required to map data, making important information available to policymakers at low cost (in theory).

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