we don't want to invest in technology that locks our data. second, we don't want to be held hostage by our vendors who state that this is their data. we've had that issue in the past. with next bus and going into litigation is not smart. so, we want to make sure our boilerplate contracts have stipulations that this belongs to our city and, therefore, the public. and last, we want to make sure that we establish open data standards. licensing standards like creative common zero, these are technical standards but they're very important for the consumption of the data, for liberation, and utilization of this data so that people can create new companies and new uses. with that, i want to thank president chiu and his office for their leadership. i'd like to thank 311 for their leadership in operationally managing open data as well as department of technology. i want to thank our open data working group that helped put this legislation together which i think reestablishes our national leadership in open

data which belongs to code for america was part of that group, spur, and many others. i also want to recognize two summer interns who were spectacular, christina red grave and cat law from harvard who did the heavy lifting and put it together. these women are to thank for the effort. most importantly i want to thank the community, the people behind me here today, and the hundreds if not thousands of people in our city and across the country who are working on creating new solutions on behalf of our government and collaborating with us. with that, like to see if there's any questions you may have on the presentation or about the legislation, supervisor tang or campos. >> i do have a question. so, i notice that we are creating a new chief data officer and there's no accompanying aso amendment. i just wanted to see if you can address how this position is coming to fruition, you know, from a budgetary standpoint. >> yeah, i think our ethos has

been one about being scrappy, recognizing this is one we should be doing. what we're looking to do is my understanding is find a position within our city family that's vacant today. >> okay. and also you did mention that this chief data officer would be working with city agencies and existing positions within those departments. can you just talk us through a little about your conversations with some of the departments and whether this is something that they feel they will be capable, you know, of working with a chief data officer. >> that's a great question, supervisor tang. we've had a lot of discussions through coyth with other organizations. so, we've been doing this a few years now. what we've seen is there isn't a heavy lift in creating openness. this is something that might actually reduce work in agencies in terms of responding to sunshine requests. instead of being responsive, we should be proactive and put that information out there and reduce the number of inquiries so that people can actually go

to our open data website and get that information without ever interacting with staff. it has the ability to reduce our costs. the number of calls coming in to 311 has diminished tremendously because of real time transit information. people no longer have to call asking where is the next bus. they can actually get it on the mobile devices and in other mechanisms like 51 1. so, that is a result of this information. ~ so, i think it's really kind of an incremental effort on agencies and this is really i think net -- i think it's a savings for agency in terms of labor and hopefully cost as well. >> okay, thank you. and last question, in term of timing, then, when do we see the plans for bringing on board this chief data officer? >> so, i think everything kind of comes on board -- the clock starts once the chief data officer has been appointed. so, my understanding is that conversations are already happening, trying to determine who is the right person and

what that role looks like from a detailed perspective. 60 days out from that appointment will be that compliance plan that each agency will have to issue, which will be a catalog of the different data sets that they manage. for some agencies, that might be one data set like the film commission. for larger agencies like puc, that may be many more, but they also have more resources to be able to compile that information. >> all right. any other questions from colleagues? supervisor campos. >> just a quick question. in term of implementation, what does this mean in term of how, you know, an entity like the sunshine task force oversees compliance, and are you in communication with them to make sure they understand, you know, what this means moving forward? >> i think this complements the efforts around transparency. i don't think it takes it away. i don't think it's duplicative. i think if you look at the legislation that we're doing,

it recognizes us as president chiu had mentioned, that we live in a 21st century, data is stored electronically. we should not be sending faxes, pieces of paper to the extent we can issue this information in an electronic format, we should do as such. so, i think it really -- it furthers the goals of the sunshine task force. >> thank you. >> all right. any other questions? >> i just want to acknowledge, i know there are a number of city staffers who have been working on this in a number of departments and want to see if there is anyone who wants to make any opening comments as well. happy for folks to do that. we have travis fox from the mta who oversees information technologies at the department. >> hi, good morning, supervisor tang, supervisor campos, president chiu. travis fox, chief information officer for the san francisco municipal transportation agency.

just want to talk about sort of [speaker not understood] the leadership that's come from the board of supervisors and the mayor, speak to some of the things that we're undertaking in our agency and what we hope to do in the future in terms of open date a. we have all of our next time -- next bus real time predictions available, [speaker not understood] park data and respond to a number of one-off requests as well. in the future what we're having coming forward is taxi data access system where we're going to offer the [speaker not understood] license developers to all taxi locations and electronically hail taxis in san francisco. all of us are very excited about that in term of making it easier for us to get around the city. also providing automatic passenger counter information to folks, additional information on transit vehicle and also bicycle information. one other area that we're working on that i know is of great interest to supervisor chiu and others is the information in terms of

temporary closures of streets and temporary street closures, but also the ongoing street closures. i understand that's a very urgent area that has been? some delays on that, but we put it a number of times recently in mapping the processes and are hoping to put both the static information in terms of ongoing closures, but also the temporary closure data out mid to late summer as well. so, we do -- i don't want to under estimate the challenges internally associated with that, but we're putting a great deal of effort into that as well. just want to give you a brief summary of activities underway. >> all right, thank you. >> and i just want to briefly comment. i want to thank you and the sfmta for the data sets you put out there and thank you for the conversations we had reese endly around temporary closures which would lead to information that could help i think our residents avoid having their cars towed. i understand this is not data that is just within your department. there are several other departments that need to be coordinated in this and it has

been slow in coming, but look forward to working with you to hopefully get this out as soon as we n. i know there are citizens out there that are eager to get this information, not just for themselves, but i think there are the possibilities of applications that could really use this to make things and life easier for folks who are circling around the streets trying to figure out where to park. and hopefully in short we'll be able to make some movement in that area. but thank you for your work. >> thank you. i look forward to working with the department. >> any other department speakers? >> good morning, reggie [speaker not understood] from the department of public health. so, as the environmental regulator for the city, i'd like to be first in line to be part of this process. the open data initiative, we've already sort of borne a lot of fruit for us. i think stepping back, the way i look at it is if our regulatory data is out there more visibly in the public eye that's going to create more responsibility on the part of

the regulated parties. it's going to create more accountability on the part of the job my staff are having to do. so, the first example of this has been our work to get data out on food regulations. yesterday yelp launched our food regulatory data as with sort of a first city -- (applause) >> food regulatory data out. we've had this data out since 2007, but it was buried in the bowels of our -- shouldn't say bowels. [laughter] >> of our health department website. if you've seen one of these, it's really exciting. now, that, that was -- i think we are going to be sort of a model for the nation and there's already other cities stepping up. but also internally it's done a lot of things. we work keeping data very clean and it's forced us to organize our data, integrate our data, have our just data be more comprehensible. it's forced us to have better mechanism for accountability for our own staff. we are about to launch a

similar project for housing data so tenants and others wants to see property conditions before they represent or buy are going to have access. the secondary, i think, that i just want to sort of mention has been we in mid 2000s, we created a data product called the sustainable communities index. there we had aggregated data on the health and sustainability and social justice in san francisco communities from eversiti agency and put it sort of in one basket. but we held it as a department and we were using it as a department. through the open data initiative we now have 90 different indicate ors, 90 different measures out in the open data site. we already have private application developers using this data ~ and you're going to be seeing some very exciting products come out from this. and i think perhaps most gratifying and satisfying for me, i'm now working with city universities ccac in particular, and they're using

this data. and the brilliance and innovation coming out of these classrooms and the sort of desire to solve problems and how our data can be part of that has been really inspiring. so, thank you for supporting this initiative and we hope to be sort of an ongoing [inaudible]. thanks. >> i want to thank your department forever all the work you're doing and thank the bowels of the residents of san francisco in particular for the work you're doing in the restaurants. [laughter] >> you know, certainly when it comes to health care, being able to track our data and our statistic and measuring over time period the progress we're making toward better health outcomes, environmental outcomes is incredibly critical. so, we look forward to future data sets that will result in better health. >> thank you very much. >> thanks. any other city departments? if not, i know there are a number of folks who have come here today to talk about this discussion. madam chair, if you can get to public comment. >> i do have one speaker card. we're opening this up for public comment. first i have alex maxa.

i do know there are other individuals who are here today. >> and i just want to note i see there is a mother with a child. do you want to speak in public comment or -- would you like to speak first? [laughter] thank you. good morning, supervisors. thank you very much for hearing this legislation. my name is sue [speaker not understood]. i'm here on behalf of sf tech dom. and we are in full support of this legislation. an open government is an accountable government. san francisco should be at the forefront as far as innovation and entrepreneurship and this legislation goes a long way in making that happen. so, we ask that you vote to send this legislation back to the full board. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker.

good morning and thank you, supervisors. especially thank you, david chiu, for introducing this important topic. i'm alex maxa. i'm here on behalf of my company curb text based here in san francisco. it is a parking communication app that can save your car from getting towed. i'll explain and how we can serve the city better. the way code tech work is you can register your license plate with our service. if anybody sees your car parked in a bad way, for example, it's blocking a driveway or your headlights are left on, they can send a text message to your phone via the license plate [speaker not understood] skew me. to improve our service, we need to access the city's towing data in real time so that curb

text can automatically send -- automatically and instantly text people to alert them that their car has been officially targeted for towing by the city or will be targeted for towing by the city in the event of sunday streets, for example. another example is when a parking control officer radios for a tow and the dispatcher records that plate number, at that moment we'd like to know the plate number. then we'd be giving that person a chance to move their car before the tow truck arrives. if they can't move it, at least they'll know what happened to it and where they can go to retrieve it as soon as possible. here's how to use curb text. first you register with curb text by entering your cell phone number and your license plate number. you can do this online or simply by texting your plate number to the curb text plate number to your mobile phone. once your plate is linked to your phone number, anyone can contact you by sending a text message beginning with your license plate number to the curb text phone number.

for example, if you're blocking your neighbor's driveway and they don't know how to reach you or even if that's your car, they can take out their phone, pull up the curb text phone number and type in your plate number followed by a message, for example, please move your car, asap, or it will be towed and press 7. then they can call sfmta requested tow and see who move the vehicle faster. all we need is the license plate number the car the city has cited for towing -- >> mr. maxa, the time is up, but i want to give everyone an equal number of time to speak during public comment. sure, thank you. >> are there any other speakers? good morning, supervisors, my name is douglas yow. i would like to speak in favor of this item even though on the record i think it belongs in a different committee. in regards to open data and

procedures, i would like to recommend three items for this new system. number one, the obvious, pornography. number two is the even more sinister child pornography. and number three is the disgraced whims with l blower program which was highlighted in yesterday's examiner regarding the $750,000 that the poor people will miss out on in order to pay a doctor who was humiliated illegally, in my opinion, by the city and county of san francisco. ~ whistle blower so, if we're going to talk about open data, i among other people want to know what's inside the city's computer systems in regards to pornography, child pornography, and what's available for the whistle blower he program. in my opinion, the whistle

blower program has been turned into a frankenstein to go after whistleblowers like myself. so, we would like to see the real program. in fact, if this committee really wants something to do, i would urge that you call the controller and ex, ex-supervisors chiu and elsbernd. i would like to ask them plenty of questions in regards to the department of public health. and also let's have a new app. i know this is a very controversial suggestion, but how about developing a new app that law enforcement will eagerly buy, it will detect corrupt politicians. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. tough act to follow. [laughter] good morning. thank you, supervisors. welcome, katy, you just joined the team.

my name is [speaker not understood]. i'm with appaliscious. we would not exist without the foresight and leadership of supervisor chiu where we came at, open data is what we work with and how our company came to be. we are one of the first start-ups that is -- we consider sanable innovation coming out of the open data sector, and we just wanted to be here today to say with this policy and with this new legislation and with the previous legislation, you are creating an entire new industry. you are creating jobs. you are creating revenue. and you are creating resources and access to the citizens that have never been there before. the innovation that's spurring is phenomenal and the collaboration between departments, we've been lucky the board was at rec and park. we're now working with san francisco art. san francisco art commission,

and they're all cross-collaborating, populating mobile applications for the public for free and giving the public ability to access all the resources that have never been available before. i'm just here to say on behalf of the private sector that we need this to be passed, the best standards and practices needs to be created. we still have a long way to go, but we are making tremendous progress. so, i thank you guys for your time [speaker not understood]. sorry. and david chiu, thank you again, supervisor chiu, for your leadership in this. this has been an amazing experience over the last two years a we started to adopt open data technology. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. good morning, my name is [speaker not understood] and i work for the white house as a presidential innovation fellow. i'm here to share my personal

perspective [speaker not understood] national data. [speaker not understood]. how this is done is admittedly not always clear. in the 1970s the national oceanic made weather data widely available. in 1980s [speaker not understood]. which were previously for military use only. these two decisions created huge effects in the live of everyday americans. ask anyone who obtained a driving report on a mobile phone. what's more, these issues generated an infrastructure of public data that anyone could tap into for free. what we see are the end use products and services that they're being delivered by massive networks, we just heard, and third-party providers that are being fueled by open date a. tremendous benefits also exist within government. one example from my work in the department of energy, we were able to open up wholesale information through an application interface, api. this single api saved nearly $1 million in the first year by

allowing federal employees to concentrate on their core work instead of making photocopies and dropping packages in the mail. san francisco's open data ordinance is an important contribution to the growing all hands on deck effort to make government data accessible as a fuel for innovation and economic growth. as [speaker not understood] mentioned, freely available and formats that are easy to use and innovative ways while rigorously protecting privacy has been a priority for the obama administration since the beginning. as president said, information maintained by the federal government is a national asset and the administration also encourages city and county open data efforts like this one. i'll close briefly saying my talk today is not an endorsement of this ordinance for my office. but we are highly supportive of san francisco's efforts to advance the open data system. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please.

>> there are other folk that want to speak, if you want to line up on the left-hand side of the room so we can have a sense of how many speakers there are. hi, i'm mini ingersoll, a principal at google.org where i lead [speaker not understood] on innovation. i want to voice my support for the open data initiative being proposed. we have a lot of overlap with the work that is being proposed here and i look forward to being a public-private cooperation. some of the things we do is with open data, we try to drive traffic to that data if it's open data, google as a search engine can drive people to these services or the data they are looking for. and when i hear jay speak about this, when they ask what data you have available, some of the things we're able to do is provide information what information are people searching for right now that

they're not necessarily finding answers to. i think there's a lot of potential areas where we can work together. also on the standards, we're very excited about open data standards and taking the data and the standards that san francisco produces and bringing that to our network of other large cities that we work with. so, thank you very much and we're very supportive. >> all right. thank you. next speaker, please. hello, i'm peter hirschberg, co-founder of gray area foundation for arts and [speaker not understood]. we've had the privilege to lead incubation efforts and hack athon and building in this greater space. i want to say if you think about the history of american government, data has really moved forward the business of government and reform. 100 years ago the reform movement it was data about child labor data about health that enabled this company to move forward. so, data has always been part and parcel of progressive cities. today we live in this unique moment where we're pouring out more than ever before and most importantly there were these enormous communities that want to jump in and help.

by building that ecosystem that's really part of building our leadership as a city, as an economic development force and understanding all of this. and we've already been a leader. i want to recognize [speaker not understood] the work that he did taking data from multiple arenas in a sustainable cities index and then using that to put a lens, ability to manage the city differently. by looking at multiple data sets and trying to bring about change, that's what leadership is. that's the next point i'd like to make. the reason i think a chief data officer is so important, data doesn't happen by accident. you need to use new techniques and insights and push things forward. great organizations have leaders that understand this stuff and i think in a city like this, having somebody who understands data culture and understands how to bring about change to then partner with departments allows us to move forward. and san francisco is perhaps the best laboratory for this in the world. we have silicon valley, best data scientists, the best work that is going on. by putting ourselves in the center and growing all of this,

it's a unique opportunity both to improve our city, grow jobs and provide leadership. it's a wonderful time for all of us. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. good morning, supervisors. my name is christie wilson, [speaker not understood] a big data company headquartered [speaker not understood]. we have over 5200 customers worldwide. i mention that specifically because i'm here to strongly lend our support to the creation of a chief data officer position. the existence of the company speaks to the power of [speaker not understood]. there are two main points i'd like to make. one is there is a huge economic opportunity here through the creation of both businesses in the private sector as well as increasing the sort of economic livelihood and opportunities that our citizens face. the second point that i would

like to make today is open data is absolutely integral to a modern democracy. we must make data open, accessible, and valuable to all people throughout the world. and san francisco has both the [speaker not understood] because of our proximity being at the heart of technology and also because of our former sort of leadership in this area of really amazing opportunity to continue to search forward and be a leader in that area. so, both personally and also as a representative i wanted to strongly say that we support the measures being discussed here today and hope that they will be created very soon data officer position. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. hi, greeting, everybody. my name is mita. i can you have from [speaker not understood] and i would like to speak from the academic perspective because open data sets are really vital to our

research. it is important that accessible easily so you don't have to -- we can see what item are [speaker not understood] to them. i support the city's -- the city and how advance open data. i would like to add it is important that this is updated and available in real time so that you can really get [speaker not understood] information about what is happening. so nothing gets old. and for search [speaker not understood],. it's really hard to create, any search can be -- which can have

value as search. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. and with that, if there is anyone else who would like to speak for public comment, if you could line up on the wall. otherwise i guess this will be our last speaker. thank you, supervisors. i speak here as a 20-year citizen of san francisco. also as a two-time entrepreneur in san francisco. as well as a recent advisor to many nonprofits and small start -ups on software, open source software in particular. i also did service for sick months at the white house as an advisor to the office of science and technology on open data and exchange of patient data between organizations. in addition to all the positive things that have been said by the other speakers, i really wanted to emphasize the potential for especially the appointment of the chief data officer to do two things. one, lead city government, more of a data driven decision

making, to not just put more data sets out, but also to help automate and sis system etize all the things government does. ~ the more things you can do like ab testing, what's worked and not worked, the smarter you can be about the programs you adopt and push forward. the second is really to help establish san francisco as a leader among cities such as philadelphia, which has also appointed a chief data officer, or cities like chicago and new york. to be a leader, not just pushing forward on interesting projects and facilitating new start ups and governments a platform, but in establishing standards, standards such as the restaurant health data that's come out, and any other place, the city of san francisco like many other cities can push out standards, data in standardized ways to make it easy for everyone to build an app to talk to multiple cities at the same