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City hears briefing on Blockwise, a ZenCity survey tool city staff say is anonymous
Summary
ZenCity's Blockwise platform was presented to the Public Safety and Justice Subcommittee as a two-minute, demographically weighted survey tool to measure community perceptions by precinct. Officials and council members pressed the vendor on how the system reaches underrepresented residents and whether responses are personally identifiable.
ZenCity representatives briefed the Public Safety and Justice Subcommittee on Wednesday on Blockwise, a digital survey tool the company says can deliver short, targeted surveys to residents and generate precinct-level dashboards the Phoenix Police Department could use to measure public sentiment and guide deployment.
Dan Wilson, the city's communications director, introduced the presentation and said the city has used ZenCity software previously to gauge resident sentiment. ZenCity vice president Eyal Halamish told the subcommittee the survey takes about two minutes and is weighted monthly to produce representative samples, allowing staff to…
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