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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...

Tonight at 6pm borisjohnson says leaving the eu without a trade deal is now a strong possibilty. After failing to break the deadlock in brussels last night, borisjohnson tells the cabinet and public to prepare for no deal. Looking at where we are, i do think its vital that everybody now gets ready for that australian option. Well have the latest from westminster. Also tonight in wales, all secondary school and College Pupils will be home schooled from monday, to try to halt the surge in covid ca...

This is bbc news these are the latest headlines in the uk and around the world. A brexit announcement is expected in the coming hours, are as the signs from london and brussels suggest a deal is close. The remaining differences between the two camps have been narrow but deep in particular over fishing rights. More than 6,000 lorries spend another night stranded outside the port of dover with drivers waiting to be tested for covid 19 before theyre allowed into france. Stay at home from boxing day...

Yeah, the Emergency Services working flat out here in shropshire. Rescue crews have spent the night in the town of ironbridge. Those are the flood barriers that were damaged yesterday. The good news, though, the river is going down. However, there is more persistent rainfor however, there is more persistent rain for those flood affected areas to come through tomorrow and saturday. As for the friday morning commute, a mixture of rain, sleet and snow. More details later. Its smash and grab for Man...

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...