More accountable to all of you as the residents and as our customers here in City Government. And this is why i am proud tomorrow to help move forward legislation that my staff has been working closely with jay nath and mayor leon that will real i do three things. First of all, it will create a chief data officer because we need one person who is responsible and accountable for moving forward our open data agenda. Secondly, were going to require every department in the city to have a representative who is responsible for data so you can go to our transit agency, our police department, any of our 50 plus departments and know who can help you get the data that we need. Thirdly, we need to make sure that we have common standards so that as this data is presented, all of us can know how to use it, how to play with it and move things forward. Now, i want to take this moment to issue a challenge to the smartest and the brightest in San Francisco here in this room. There are three ideas that
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 government more transparent, what kinds of standards are needed to make sure that data is accessible both within the city, between agencies and also to the private sector and the public. And i think that this person, this data officer really will help us do what many of you in the private sector are already doing well, which is using that information to make better decisions. And thats really what our office is all about. Its really why we need this person to help us understand what data is out there and how do we utilize that in conjunction with the other information that we already have. You can send a tweet. So, were finalizing the Job Announcement now. If youre interested, or you know someone who is interested, you can send a tweet to sfmoci and well be posting the Job Announcement there. So,
Mind, i want to do a show of hands. I get this question a lot in terms of how much of the work is getting out there. How many of you have ever heard of the green button, a green button . Most of the panelists and audience members. Its a good thing were here. It is a initiative launched by the white house but industry led. You should be able to get your own energy data in a machine readable format you can then give to companies, organizations like the ones being celebrated here today to provide real value to you such as saving money, improving energy efficiency, and protecting the environment. So, the green button here we are in San Francisco, i can say with some public comfort that pg e is a signatory to the green button, download my data. And basically you go to the utility website. You can download your own green button data which by itself is, well, im an energy guy, an energy geek. I consider with confidence. It is not interesting, necessarily, but when you take your green button d
I am incredibly excited to be here today for a couple of reasons. First of all, the hatchery is one of my Favorite Places in the city. There is truly a bee hive of activity of the newest innovations that San Francisco will be famous for. I also love the fact that just a couple of blocks from here is where our San Francisco giants are moving on to the world series. But just in this room, all of you are giants and making sure that San Francisco is the World Champion when it comes to innovation. 13 years ago, i like all of you started a company. I started in iti a Technology Company in the 1. 0 world. It was a company that created technology to connect citizens better with government. I ran it for almost nine years. And when i was elected to office four years ago, i was unfortunately more surprised than i wanted to be about how far behind San Francisco government was. This was very 2008, 2009. With you im really proud of the leaps and bounds we have taken as a city. I was proud in 2010 to
I want to thank supervisor chiu who has been a leader both in the parks world and in the technology world. Sf city has really been a driving force behind helping government think about new ways, new and improved ways maybe for some of you theyre old ways now. But new and improved ways for government to reach users of our programs and services. And i want to say the last special thank you to the folks from appleliscious. This thing is awesome. This past year, the trust for public land which is a National Parks organization determined that San Francisco, which has 4,000 acres of open space and over 220 parks, over 15 of the citys land is open space. The trust for public land said we have the best urban park system in america. And the challenge for us is making sure that all of our park users understand all of the wonderful things in our park system and know how to use our parks to tailor to their own specific experience. As diverse as this city is, there are hundreds if not thousands of