What are we doing to protect god and from a planned protection, are you on schedule. So that is a big thing that came out in cyberspring activity that basically cios i was on the boat for reporting literally on a daily basis. Taking a look at who has a day of an tiny qquebec and why. What assets today have been why do they have it . Making sure folks that dont need it dont have it. So by telling scott and others if we need to address this in a timely fashion. Again, the third area dealt with the factor of authentication and accelerating now. Another one dealt with making sure if he does have a cbm in place as well as accelerating einstein. So the metrics that were put in place were in support of not only the program, but also the areas of priority identified as critical cybersecurity areas to address part of closing the loop. The third area is communication. Communications from a machine perspective making sure it is made available to departments and agencies through price breaks as we
Sorry. Go back. So, when we think about the internet of things, we in industry, in government, we think in history and government, we think about industrial control. We think about lighting, parking. Those are all very good and things that can save us money and increase our efficiency and do those things, but our users are thinking other things. Users are thinking about their smartphone, their smart thermostat, toaster, if you will, and all of the many devices they want to bring. To our users, this has become very important. Especially when you talk about the new workforce that is entering our businesses and our government, the younger generations are coming in with this preconceived notion all of these things are going to work. And in fact, bitcom did a study where they surveyed 14 to 29yearolds and they asked them, i cannot imagine life without . The answer was mobile phone was 97 . Internet was 84 . And a car, which was very becoming less important and most telling of this survey is
When i look at the current debate, syria has fallen off the radar. A racket is taken dominance in public and policy iraq has taken prominence in public and policy debates. The public has not well analyzed there is not great interest. Look at the number of journalists who have written about that compared to the cover job syria. Dangerous lot more place. On balance, what is happening inside syria is not getting enough coverage and policy attention it deserves. I will spend most of my time doing that, because i think it is fundamental to understand what is happening there. The reasons for the conflict are there to last many more years. The spillover cannot be contained. Containment is not the strategy. It is an avoidant strategy actually. Fewme start by making a points of warning. The first one is there is a tendency to embrace broad narratives when it comes to syria too easily. The narrative was that the rebels were winning and the region was collapsing. In recent months, it has been the
The next exigency the next generation so its my honor to join the supervisor today and i especially want to thank his family because when someone makes the kind of commitment and provides the kind of service that michael has provided and has made, its not just they who are making a sacrifice its the family members as well. Thank you. Supervisor avalos. Thank you. I just also want to put in a word for michael bax ter ive known him for a number of years he used to run the Health Clinic at the Balboa High School and theres few individuals ive seen in my work over the years who have been so dedicated to their work. I i know that he worked many long hours and on top of his work at the clinic he was coordinating Health Services in other schools and other places in the department and he made a huge difference in young peoples lives and brought them to a level of awareness about their health in San Francisco and it was remarkable as well he was able to keep alive the balboa clinic when others
Bill 360 allowing counties to develop and own and operate public Voting Systems and opens the door for Voting Technology used to administer elections publicly available and viewable and by following the open source path we can ensure that elections have more integrity than they also have and less opportunity for fraud and more accurate results so this resolution will move us in in that direction by requesting that lafco study how San Francisco could implement its own Voting System and move towards open source. So this is an important step forward colleagues i want to acknowledge that weve all received some emails in the last few days from some advocates expressing concern not with the substance of the resolution i believe theres universal support for the substance of the resolution but expressing concern that one organization is named in the resolution and in the spirit of moving forward in in a united a way as possible because i believe the same goal im going to suggest or make a moti