Working Group: NYC Council - Click To Call App

[sonyabea]

About the group

When the Right to Know act comes up for a vote, it will get vetoed by the mayor and we will then need a veto-proof majority to over-ride the mayor. Therefore, we will be in a scramble to make sure city council members hold their initial vote.
Action Kit offers an add-on that allows users to enter their zip and then be given the number to call their representative's offices directly, in an easy "click to call" way. BUT it lacks the local data to click to call NYC Council electeds. So we want to build that!
We want a website where the organizer can:

• upload csv of zips, elected name, phone/email and script
• enter or be given a custom URL to send in en email campaign to their list of activists
• then the activist goes to URL, types in name, email, zip and clicks to call or email elected with script viewed (maybe email auto-fills content?)
• activist inputs result of call
• organizer able to see who took action and results of calls
• API to action kit? Or at least be exportable to import into action kit
• share action they took- sample tweet, etc
• confirmation email to action taker?

Group leader/s

Sonya Reynolds (NYCET/Colibrí Labs) - sonya@nycet.org 215-264-5968
Mohammad Khan (mpower) - mohammad@mpowerchange.org

Who we're looking for

??

Tools

action kit

Relevant Links

API credentials here: https://onetimesecret.com/secret/stxyv42tn8tlw73onkt20ky4gl6e8e8
And here is the documentation for the API: https://docs.actionkit.com/docs/manual/api/rest/overview.html
Here's an example:
https://act.mpowerchange.org/call/call-reject-muslim-ban-rex/

Where we meet

TBD

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If you're an organization and you have an idea for a project, think about these questions before coming to the community:

What kind of technical project is this? (A website? An app? A mobile service? A campaign?)
website

What stage is the project at? (Ideation, implementation, or beta?)
ideation!

What is the problem you are trying to solve, and why is it a problem?
See above. Same thing happened in 2013 with the Community Safety Act, difficult for grassroots orgs to lobby council members on such a short timeline and record who took action so next time we can organize the same people.

Do you know of any similar solutions? And what was lacking in the solution?
Action Kit offers this but they only allow you to contact state or federal representatives and aren't set up for city council.