About 360citi Cambridge
Our mission
TOKUMA strengthens the environmental, social and economic resilience of communities through education, civic participation, circular systems and the sustainable use of natural and human resources.
How 360citi is held accountable.
Six commitments that anyone can check against what the site does.
- 01
The record
360citi’s authority is limited to the shared record: what it includes, where its information comes from and when it is corrected.
- 02
Independence
360citi takes no side and endorses no party, candidate, campaign, ballot question, organisation, coalition or project. It issues and approves nothing. Council, the boards, City management and independent agencies keep every power over projects, permits and public spaces.
- 03
Funding
360citi is funded only by membership and donations. It accepts no advertising, sells no resident data and accepts no developer sponsorship of analysis. Any change to these funding arrangements is announced on this page first.
- 04
Conflicts of interest
Anyone with a financial interest in a project declares it and steps out of decisions about that record. Paying members’ names are kept private unless they ask to be named.
- 05
Corrections
Incorrect figures are corrected publicly. Each correction includes a case reference and appears beside the original. The old value stays visible in the history.
- 06
Membership
Paying buys no influence over moderation, no priority in the record and no special access to the analysis. The analysis stays public, whether someone pays or not.
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
How this started
- 01
The problem
Every board, every applicant and every neighbour argued from a different set of facts. The same figures were rebuilt from scratch before each meeting, and no two versions agreed.
- 02
What became clear
The records already existed. They were public, scattered across separate City systems, and nobody had put them in one place with their sources still attached.
- 03
What was built
One shared record: 12,933 parcels, 261 zoning districts and the ordinance behind them. Every figure shows where it came from, and a missing figure is marked as missing.
What this is, and what it is not
Facts remain public. Political participation remains clearly attributed.
Public website and dashboard
- Neutral presentation
- Documented facts
- Transparent calculations
- Corrections and source history
- Equal treatment of competing positions
Civic Forum
- Opinions and political positions
- Petitions and campaigns
- Community proposals
- Moderated debate
- Clearly identified sponsors and authors
You are entering the Civic Forum, where members post opinions, proposals and petitions under their own names. Moderation rules differ from the public record.
Corrections and contact
If something here is wrong, we correct it in public. The corrections page records what changed and when.
What the dashboard will contain
Thirteen screens are planned. Several are already open in a simpler public form, such as the tracker pages, the calendar and the petition centre, and are linked here.
13 screens, and the order they arrive in
- Dashboard home
- City, neighborhood and precinct map
- Tree, canopy and microclimateOpen now: Tracker
- Rainfall, space and floodingOpen now: Tracker
- TRUE affordabilityOpen now: Tracker
- TRUE multifamily livingOpen now: Tracker
- Voting and representationOpen now: Tracker
- Permits and developmentOpen now: Tracker
- Complaints and process navigatorOpen now: Petition resource centre
- Calendar, weekly report and interviewsOpen now: Civic calendar
- Public project
- Links to Civic Forum Q&A
- Submit and upload, forms and process
The order it arrives in
- Release 1. Core evidence, map, existing permit and tree data.
- Release 2. Rainfall, affordability and multifamily trackers.
- Release 3. Voting official baseline, activity, report, archive and projects.
- Release 4. Process navigator, petitions and submissions.
The sequence is set; the dates are not, because none has been agreed.
Who runs 360citi
For the citizens of Cambridge.
360citi is an independent public-interest program operated by TOKUMA Foundation. 360citi is not a City of Cambridge service, political party or election campaign.
TOKUMA Foundation develops and operates the website.
How it is paid for, and why it takes no side, are two of the commitments above: Funding and Independence
or write to info@360citi.org
