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 time. so, it it's really time to move forward to what i say is the second tier of option of open data here in san francisco. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. hi, my name is christa de

hagen and i work at motion loft. we're the first private sector company to partner with san francisco in the open data initiative. most loft provides pedestrian vehicle information in san francisco as well as other cities, but we have only partnered with san francisco so far. in real time as well as over time to show trends in traffic. and i think basically what i would like to speak to today is the importance of somebody who is going to be in charge of the data because what we found is that you can have all of this data, but if you don't have somebody looking at it and somebody utilizing it, then it's pointless and it's just hanging out there. so, i think this is very important, to have somebody kind of organizing different departments as well as just kind of, you know, facilitating the communication between the government as well as -- between the government and the

people that the government is serving and are presenting. and having this information out there, such as what motion loft -- sorry -- on having the information out there about, you know, like where you can go find places to hang out at parks or knowing like when your car is going to be towed, crowding information such as what motion loft is providing, it does a great service to the people of the city and then we found that data like motion loft can be helpful for people who are working with the police to know, like, where are there crowds. we found out during -- after the giants won, you know, knowing where are the crowds gathering so you can dispatch units over there to make sure that everything is under control as well as all of the health care and stuff with the

yelp bowels. >> thank you. next speaker, please. hi, my name is rebecca ackerman. [speaker not understood]. [laughter] i just wanted to say that spactionv working with the city of san francisco and we are so excited for the opportunity to work with open data. and to have someone who as the last speaker said is in charge of this open data because that is really where systemic change comes from. i also wanted to suggest to the supervisors this is just me speaking completely for myself, i wanted to suggest to the supervisors and the mayor ~ to make the cdo search the most transparent -- as transparent as possible in fair of open data. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. hi, my name is marty web and i work for a nonprofit

organization in the city called tech tube global. in that i work with a division called caravan [speaker not understood]. we're working to help nonprofits throughout the country really, but also in san francisco and california be able to access the same kind of innovative energy that we see gathering in the sort of small businesses and the efforts. we see today. so, i want to advocate for making data open. also providing somebody that can shepherd that data and make it available so it can actually be useful by organizations inside the city. it's not just published, right? we can all check the box of open data, but we can actually make that data actionable by individuals and organizations when they're making decisions. i think that by having the city provide its data in an open way, it doesn't just provide leadership to other cities, it also provides leadership to other organizations and individuals within the city who are doing work in the area in civil engagement and civil society to open up their data,

who will give a complete picture of what citizens in our city look like. thanks. >> thank you. any other members of the public like to comment on item number 2? any closing remarks from colleagues? >> just a couple quick comments. first of all, supervisor campos asked a question around sunshine requests. and one thing i want to point outright now is that departments spend an awful lot of time complying with sunshine requests, with requests from the media, with requests from the public. and part of i think all of our interests in moving this forward is to create platforms and requirements that push this data out so that hopefully that will address the questions before individual city staffers have to run around and chase that data and do it in an automated way. on top of that you heard from folks how this is going to hopefully spur not just governmental innovation, but innovation that helps to create jobs. i also want to just thank the community that is i know only partially represented here today. and in particular i want to thank the open data working group. i want to thank our chief

innovation officer jay naft and his staff. i want to thank the department of technology, our city staff. but in particular, all of you that represent the public who are leading in so many places, whether it be in code for america, or some of our start ups. you are helping to hold us accountable and this legislation in my mind really represents that next step. but let me suggest that hopefully when this passes that this is just another data point in the movement and that we keep holding ourselves accountable so that we can produce the best government possible for our citizens. the last thing i just want to say is our city attorney, i want to thank john give more for pointing out a couple of quick little technical amendmentses we need to make, page 4 line 12 there is some redundant language so i'd like to propose we strike the language online 12. and then on that same page on lines 1, 3, 6, 7, 10, and 12 ~ there are sectionses that are

referred to with numbers and our good attorney has pointed out they should be substituted with capital letters, a, b, c, d, e. so, if we could make that amendment just clean up the language, and then i'd ask you to pass this out with full recommendation to the board. >> so moved. >> all right, great. and we've heard public comment and accepted the amendments. and now, madam clerk, are there any other -- >> sorry, i just wanted to make a quick -- >> yes, sorry. supervisor campos. >> thank you, madam chair. the one thing that i think it's important is this whole issue of transparency as we move forward with the implementation. and i appreciated the comment about the transparency with the selection. i think it's also important that once the person is elected that we also have someone who is going to be able to work with the very difficult verse communities that we have in san francisco so that there is equal access in terms of the availability of this data. and it's not just the business community, but the nonprofit

community, private residents, all of that. so, i think it's an exciting thing and i think that the more people who came here continue to be engaged, the more transparent the process will be. thank you. >> great. and i am also very interested to see how technology can better help government serve the people that we represent. so, with that, madam clerk, is there any other business before this committee? >> there are no further item. >> actually i would make a motion to move this forward with positive relevanttion. >> yes, with recommendation to the full board. all right. with that the meeting is adjourned. [gavel] (applause)

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welcome home, man. >> good morning, everyone, thanks for joining us today, welcome to the meeting, cohen, and fer ill will be on his way andals would like to recognize tang and i believe that commissioner chiu will be joining us as well. clerk of the board today is erica chang and also like to

thank jessy larson and charles from sfgtv for broadcasting this meeting. >> any announcements? >> no announcements. all right. accident, thank you for joining us. would you please call the roll? >> you have done roll call and so i will call item number two, approve the minutes. >> any issues with the minutes? are there any members of the public that would like to speak? >> no, okay? seeing that there is no people that are wishing to speak, public comment will be closed. colleagues this xanax item is there a motion to provide? . >> a motion from commissioner chiu. >> without objection, the motion passes. madam clerk, would you call item number three. >> the legislative updates and the action item. >> thank you very mu