Q&A
Data collection and potential uses through MyCity digital wallets
1:25:30
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117 sec
Council Member Gutiérrez inquires about the data collected through digital wallets and its potential uses. Commissioner Fraser discusses theoretical concepts for using the data to incentivize healthier behaviors.
- Fraser mentions the possibility of providing incentive points based on purchasing choices (e.g., buying water versus soda)
- He emphasizes that these ideas are theoretical at the moment
- Fraser explains that collected information could be used for benefits matching and other purposes not possible with paper-based systems
- Gutiérrez expresses concerns about monitoring spending habits and questions whether this is a need expressed by constituents or agencies
- Fraser clarifies that OTI would be the facilitator of building systems, while agencies administering benefits would determine how to use the information
Jennifer Gutiérrez
1:25:30
Okay.
1:25:31
Okay.
1:25:32
And then I don't know if you I don't have any notes.
1:25:35
I don't know if you answer this, but the data collected through the digital wallets.
1:25:42
What would it what would OTI be using it for?
1:25:46
And and kind of like, what what is the data that you'd be collecting?
Matthew Fraser
1:25:49
So there there's a concept of providing incentive benefits to promote healthier behavior.
1:25:56
So for example,
Christopher Leon Johnson
1:25:58
and so
Jennifer Gutiérrez
1:25:59
concerns about that.
Matthew Fraser
1:25:59
I'm sorry?
Jennifer Gutiérrez
1:26:00
There was so many concerns about that.
Matthew Fraser
1:26:01
Yeah.
1:26:02
So I I think that there's a concept that if you leverage benefits in one way versus another, like, if you buy water versus buying soda, being able to provide incentive points based on that.
1:26:15
But all those things at theoretical at the moment, I think once the information is collected, you have ways where you can do benefits, you can do matching, you can do things that you can't do with paper based,
Jennifer Gutiérrez
1:26:26
Yeah.
Matthew Fraser
1:26:27
Benefits today.
Jennifer Gutiérrez
1:26:28
And I'm I'm glad you said it's theoretical.
1:26:32
Because I'm just curious if that is like a in in the way that you've been talking about kind of the future of my city where you're really focusing on not the agency, but but the car and then like kind of what their needs are, is this a need that people have expressed or that that, you know, relevant agencies have expressed where it would be good to monitor spending habits so that we can potentially promote healthier habits.
1:26:52
Is that something that you're hearing from folks?
Matthew Fraser
1:26:54
So what we're hearing is that are a number of programs that not just exist in the city level, but at a federal aid level that helps gear towards healthier habits and being able to track information in some way, shape, or form that can show compliance, which means we can render more benefits or to distribute more to those that need it.
1:27:13
I think that that's that's where that comes from.
1:27:16
But again But it
Jennifer Gutiérrez
1:27:17
wouldn't come from OTI.
Robert F. Holden
1:27:18
It
Matthew Fraser
1:27:18
wouldn't come from OTI.
1:27:19
It'd come from those that actually administer the benefits.
1:27:22
We're we're the facilitator of building the systems They're those that are responsible for the business
Jennifer Gutiérrez
1:27:27
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