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Modeling sessions, jams sounded more fun, we can invite entrepreneurs in and see what can be done and created Real Products within a few months. That is being rolled out at education, energy, treasury, u. S. Aid, other agencies as well. These programs are celebrating the use of open data and hopefully will provide some additional support. I think there are even folks here who have been part of these events. Were excited for that continued support and hope you can all join this initiative in the ...

So that they have access to Financial Information as well as a team of people who are already inclined to work on analytical problems. So, as the mayor and board president chiu indicated well be hiring a chief data officer looking for the best and brightest people. So, if you know of people or if you yourself are interested, id love to talk to you, so, find me after. The role of this person is to figure out how do we build on what weve already done in terms of open data, how do we make governmen...

Im kate howard. Im the mayors budget director. Im here to just to talk briefly about the really exciting opportunity that i think is going to be coming up in the city, which is announcement of our new chief data officer. Some people may think that the Budget Office is mostly being countered, but really our office is focused on how do we make government more efficient, how do we make it more effective, and how do we use information to make better decisions. And i think thats why the mayor has ask...

Perhaps, you should be articulated. Also, i think the time period was 18 months in 2007, im not sure, but looking back at these times it was a soft ending. Not three years and in my opinion the approval process for 801 brannan street and they promised to build the same building but they did not. Those are my thoughts. Thank you. Good afternoon, commissioners. Sean rba. The last five years have been very unique. Money is starting to return and while we look at the landscape and cranes. Those cran...

Statement. It talks about the neighborhood plans and they are referenced in there already and thats fine without going into details which gets to detailed. I like his statement as its written. On that mission, commissioners to endorse the departments mission and value statements, commissioner aye, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously. And places you under item 8 on timing of project implementation. Good afternoon, dan with the department staff. This item commissioners is on your agenda ...

Scary cool stuff. Theyre taking 3 in 1 data, pothole request and crime report and matching it up with social media. Theyre getting this really deep and rich picture of what is going on in the city. And you can do that with data when you think about it creatively. Philadelphia as i mentioned, they are really active in open data. And new york, again with 3 in 1 is doing smart analytics. I think thats what youll see happening as well, government starts to become smarter, make better decisions, bett...

These events. Were excited for that continued support and hope you can all join this initiative in the neutral. Future. So, earlier you were talking a little about kind of how San Francisco came in in terms of actually ading the officer. More broadly how do you think San Francisco compares and what are some of the other cities that are doing really well in terms of open data . I should be clear. When San Francisco is third, we have a pact. Ill add to that actually. Whats great in San Francisco i...

Coming out. Cool. While were talking about data, another part of the announcement today was also motion loft making private Data Available within sort of that initiative and that website wrierid like to hear a little more, john, about kind of deciding to share that data with the city and also a lot of times especially with other companies you see them being very protective of their data. There is a lot of value there. How do you sort of balance, protecting the value of your data and commercial v...

When San Francisco is third, we have a pact. Ill add to that actually. Whats great in San Francisco is there is not just going to be a chief data officer. There is also the office of civic innovation. Jays team, shannons team. By having both of those units in place i think there is going to be a really powerful team. Because you cant just open up the data. You have to do things like this, where you get the Community Together or you have people actually talking about it because the demand side, a...

Again, save you money. Something as simple as if you look at your green button which is kilowatt hours for those that are engineering minded, a line grab if you think about t some companies today can look at your green button and figure out if your refrigerator is broken function need a new air conditioner. Thats real money if you think about it at a commercial or industrial scale. That is one data set. To your other question about what is the federal government doing, were seeking not just an e...