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Some companies today can look at your green button and figure out if your refrigerator is broken function need a new air conditioner. Thats real money if you think about it at a commercial or industrial scale. That is one data set. To your other question about what is the federal government doing, were seeking not just an energy, but across the 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...

Question about the history and we really look to recent examples to see the dura power of open data sets. My favorite examples are weather when weather data was released, weather channel. Com and many others, and gps Global Positioning system. We know the history there was the military infrastructure that liberated public consumption and use, but the things we expected such as navigation, but also things that people didnt necessarily anticipate in the beginning such as precision crop farming which lowers the cost of food in the supermarket ultimately. So, the question is now what is the next g...

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 an...

Literacy services to break inter generational cycles of it literacy. There is also project money which is a great innovative program, learner driven approach to Financial Literacy in our communities ~ and the wednesday night readers project Read Book Club that promotes the joy of reading to new readers. The city and county of San Francisco has been pleased to recognize and honor the staff before, but i think on its 30th anniversary, i think its really fitting that later well have a resolution in honor of project read that well vote upon. But i think in todays Board Meeting commending them is a...

Particularly want to thank supervisor mar for his early leadership on this issue when the program was put forward a number of years ago and ultimately stalled. So, this year after nearly six months of groundwork various stakeholders of the environment and finance and labor communities, on november 26, mayor lee and i held a press conference to announce San Franciscos intention to kick start green finance sf once again. A program that will continue our tradition of being at the forefront combating Climate Change, push our city further down a path of meeting our aggressive Greenhouse Gas Emissio...