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 together to find the solution. So, one data set that comes to 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 gre
Investor heritage and i appreciate that that heritage is being kept and that but i would also encourage you to get rid of that wharf that might be gone and i dont think that you need it and will help as well with the budget. And i would encourage you to simplify that perk i have a couple of comments as well. It is just stunning and there has got to be one of the only shipyards that you have turned into a park i dont know. Obviously this will be an example for the nation as well as honestly probably anywhere in the world. And one thing that i already have the port folks here is that i would love to make my pitch and i made it to ram before and it is not just in seattle, they have a pocket park and a beach. And you get away from the traffic and you hear the water on the beach and it is fantastic and so i love seeing the water meeting this park. But i would love to promote it in more spots along the wharf downtown and stuff so you can drop in and where that new park is down at brannen and
Has come even closer with the retail store on california which makes me think that this store is even more undesirable. Commissioner wu . So, picking up on a couple of things, this item remind me of the Orchard Supply ie team that we heard in soma a couple of months ago that the address falls specifically in one zone but its right next to an n c2 zone next to union, so for me, the question is not specifically what zone do you fall in and how do you apply the code, how can you get a sense of if youre serving the neighborhood, is it walkable, can you access these services by walking, if theres a desire to go to pet food express, can you go there by driving or taking the bus. In applying the criteria were supposed to look at for formula retail and looking at the general plan, i think there is a preference written in there for Small Business, in particular, the neighborhood commerce part of the general plan talks about fostering Small Business enterprise so im not supportive of the project
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 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 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
San francisco to bring free wifi to 31 different parks, plazas, and open spaces across our city. From areas such as the marina green to Washington Square park to sunset playground, all a moe square, civic center, Bernal Heights to right here in balboa park, this project is going to touch parks and plazas across all of San Francisco in every corner of our city. San francisco has been a leader in our Technology Community and our Technology Economy across our country and now we get to continue to play a role in being a leader bringing Technology Solutions to improve the lives of our residents here in our city. Its been a privilege to work on this project and to lead this effort the last two years and look forward to bringing the Broader Vision of free wifi across San Francisco in the next few years with all the partners behind me today. This has been a strong collaboration on behalf of a lot of partners. In particular, google, sf city, our recreation and Park Department as well as our dep