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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 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...

Government to engage entrepreneurs and innovators across all the different sectors. For those of you familiar with the history of the Health Data Initiative launched by then the hhs health and Human Services chief Technology Officer todd park, we sought to have a Health Data Palooza proceeded by health data jambs or 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...

One of our biggest pin points or struggles has been with the legislation and the old models of the [inaudible] the regulations and laws which are being slowly worked on through the legal departments and the San Franciscos legal department. But essentially we found the experience through Innovation Office has been driving the initiatives through and helping us develop and the data sets have bon become cleaner. They have become easier for us to use and the process has become a lot more efficient. ...

Park, we sought to have a Health Data Palooza proceeded by health data jambs or 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 exci...

Two data liberations. So, that is the way in which we are approaching from a strategy perspective, the ultimate impact to our customers. One super quick. One thing the city of San Francisco or big cities or federal, right, the other smaller cities, smaller cities have smaller budgets. Having a structure to support all this open data takes a lot of money. So, when these small cities are thinking about this, they should think about a way of somehow equalizing because they are putting into having t...

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 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 o...

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 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 clea...

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, as we were talking about it, will be there because there is going to be someone there. There have to be people working with it who are getting out there. I ...

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 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 tal...

About the work that you specifically are doing and sort of, you know, how the department of energy when it became interested in open data, what is available right now . There is so much available for startups right now. Its hard to choose a few favorites. Wow, i can tell you what some of the best ones that people have told me are the most popular so that will be like many other things in the startup world, its not the government that is going to come up with the answer. Its partners working toge...