Philly is made up of people who speak many different languages — 85, specifically. The City of Philadelphia released a tool this week to help residents better understand the breakdown of these languages.
The digital Language Services Usage dashboard comes through the Office of Immigrant Affairs (OIA). Maria Giraldo-Gallo, OIA’s language access program manager, said the dashboard is a way to increase transparency and accountability of the office’s Language Access Philly program. She already collects data on what language services are provided to each city department, and this dashboard creates a more streamlined way to access that data.
“This was a first attempt of our office to ease the process of communicating to the public and to anyone interested in this data set [and] what’s happening in the Language Access Program,” she told Technical.ly. “By doing an interactive dashboard, people can see and community members can see what have been the languages in which city employees have requested translation and interpretation.”
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