Urban Governance Survey Microsite Background
LSE Cities, UN Habitat and UCLG have undertaken the first phase of a survey on urban governance with results from over 50 city governments that were analysed and published in an LSE Cities conference publication. These partners are now starting the second phase of the survey to collect more responses (our objective is achieving 200 responses) with a dedicated webpage that will also display up to date results of all the survey submissions. Brief
The call for proposals is to design, set up and support an independent website for the urban governance survey. We are looking for a clear, intuitive and interactive website with regularly updated survey results that proposes novel ways of visualising, mapping and exploring relationships within the data. It will allow users to explore and motivate and facilitate the participation of more cities around the world in the survey. Our target audience include policy makers, data journalists, urban governance researchers and the general public. Website specifications
The website should contain the following parts o o o o o
World map landing page Interactive data visualisation for key themes Comparative section comparing city groups Options for case study narratives Access to survey form
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Survey background and partner contact information
The interactive data visualisation should locate the cities that participated in the survey on a world map. Novel and interactive ways of visualising the data using the map, graphs, infographics, 3D diagrams, scatterplots or others should be proposed and will be developed and agreed with LSE Cities;
Selecting a city in the world map should lead to its profile where the answers to all questions (or specific set of questions to be selected by the survey partners) are shown in a visually appealing way;
It should be possible to compare cities regarding their answers to the survey questions (e.g. max 4-5 cities or questions at a time);
It should be possible to visualize scatter plots (graphs with 2 axis) including all cities for any two questions (i.e. the user should be able to select the question represented by each axis);
The case study narratives will be a limited number of short articles with images which highlight certain elements of the survey results and talk
about specific cities and should be presented in a novel and interactive way. The content will be developed by LSE Cities in parallel with the webpage development. An example of possible narratives can be consulted here: http://lsecities.net/media/objects/articles/what-cities-tellus/en-gb/ Technical specifications
Updating the website in all its aspects must be very simple procedure. Clear instructions should be shared with the LSE Cities team. This includes importing new survey data (i.e. new cities), for example, from MS Excel spreadsheets, or uploading photos;
A Responsive Web Design approach should be adopted. Namely, the website should provide an optimal viewing experience across a wide range of devices (including desktop computer monitors, tablets and mobile phones – i.e. Flash should be avoided);
Technical support must be guaranteed for a minimum period of 6 months after the microsite is live (maximum of 1 week for responses to any queries made by the survey partners);
The website will be hosted on a “third party” domain (for example, www.urbangovernance.net). That is, a new domain should be registered for a period of 5 years (renewable);
The full source code for the web app must be provided to the survey partners (LSE Cities, UN-Habitat and UCLG). This must include: o any HTML, CSS, Javascript code o any other source code from which these are generated through preprocessing (such as HAML, SASS, Coffeescript, etc.) o
any scripts and configurations necessary to build and deploy the web app from source (e.g. grunt/gulp configuration, etc.
The copyright should be assigned to LSE Cities. Alternatively, the contracted company/designer may retain the copyright but release the code with a license that allows LSE Cities (or anyone) to modify it later on without infringing the agency's rights. That is, copyright to the full source code (as outlined above) must be assigned to LSE Cities, alternatively the full source code must be licensed under a MIT or AGPLv3 license;
Any source libraries, packages and modules on which the web app relies must be available under a free/libre/open source license.
Examples of similar webpages
https://www.portalmunicipal.pt/home - dashboard of results http://labs.lsecities.net/eumm/home/ - interactive maps, graphs and scatterplots
