. >> authorizing the department of technology to accept a gift of $600,000 in cash from the san francisco citizen's initiative for technology and innovation in order to provide fryer wireless internet access for the public in concern parks and recreation facilities. item two isresolution authorizing the department of technology to accept a gift of equipment , software, and services from cisco, inc., with a total value of $270,000 in order to provide free, wireless internet access at various locations in san francisco. >> item three is,resolution retroactively authorizing the department of technology to accept a gift of equipment, software, and services from ruckus wireless, inc., with a total value of $701,894 in order to provide free wireless access to the internet along market street. >> okay, thank you, madam clerk. colleagues, and this is an item that i had introduced a number of months ago and i want to thank supervisor avalos for being at our initial announcement last year, something that i am excited to bring forward today. this project actually started three years ago and in the o

. >> authorizing the department of technology to accept a gift of $600,000 in cash from the san francisco citizen's initiative for technology and innovation in order to provide fryer wireless internet access for the public in concern parks and recreation facilities. item two isresolution authorizing the department of technology to accept a gift of equipment , software, and services from cisco, inc., with a total value of $270,000 in order to provide free, wireless internet access at various locations in san francisco.

the resolution is adapted next item >> item 14 is a resolution to authorize the department of the technology to expend a gift from the san francisco innovation in order to provide free wireless interject access to parks and recreational facilities in san francisco. >> supervisor farrell thank you president chiu this is a project that started 3 months after i started and excited to see this last july with supervisor avalos in the park. we talked about san francisco being a technology hub and i'm a firm believer we need to create partnerships to enhance all the lives in san francisco. this accept and expand extend on behalf of the google will provide wifi access to parks and open spaces here in san francisco it's over $600,000 and includes a contract within city and county of san francisco and the maintenance of the project but also funded by sf city member google. we choose the sites across san francisco to make sure they recommended every spoiler district choose the sites for the most bang for the buck. and vessels sites that have the highest numbers of visitors and that will allow community

lengthy hiring process and, so, she is now working aggressively with our colleagues at the department of technology to upgrade our database and provide additional transparency to the public. lastly, i want to mention the public sites framework. that is helping to inform our future sales processes as well as the final version of code amendments. so, an interdepartmental team was put together, that's including sfmta economic development, the mayor's office, recreation and park department, mayor's office of housing, public health, and my division. we have been working for several months on this public sites framework which is he recently plentied to the planning commission for initial ~ comments toward the end of january this year. strategies, a four-prong strategies, real simple, developing a framework that based on existing policies guides our process in order to implement future sales. it's a comprehensive menu of potential public benefits for public sites. it provides a tool kit to achieve those benefits, and applies a framework for development of specific sites. and in particular, what we have id

there was a decision made by -- at the time the department of technology dtis that they were no longer going to support a six-person development team under their budget and that they transferred those six fteses to our budget because they were critical to the development and support of the application of support we were using and increased investment staff by 4 based on a consultant's advice to change the structure [speaker not understood]. other than that one year there hasn't been growth of employees more than in the nature of 2 to 3 per year. there's been years where we've decreased the ftes, but there ha been growth of a seth also. >> expectation based on more than doubling square footage, is that also possibly growth in staff over the years? >> the retirement board currently, supervisor, is considering a change in focus. we're now over an $18 billion fund. when we moved into the space in 1999 we were at 10 or 11 billion. with the complexity and diversity and the amount of money we're now investing, the retirement board is considering a significant increase in investment profession

they'reqq their uset( raises many unresold constitutional questions. >> the aclu has lots of ba departments using the technologye departments aren't talking about it. when we asked oakland police for information, we received this statement. it sayslp we have access to the device and its technology. it is usedxd to assist us in a variety of investigativew3 strategies. documents released by the i]acl tell us more, a list of grant t%=ns for stingray technology reveals@Ñfsan francio police, san jose police, the (uáorney's office, fremont pd and oakland pd have all applied. some received funding to buy the n opd investigative report saysi it made 21 electronic surveillance or stingray arrests in 2007.w3 while the Ñiaclu pushes for answers when officers are using stingray and if they got a warrant to do so, peoplee1 learning about the technology m e mixed reactions. >> you don't want your freedoms of protected. i feel like it's so hard. >> the e1aclu has filed a lawsu in arizonafá asking a court to force the policefá department t reveal how much i0 spending on be stingray and how it's usingná it. that could happen

of technology. one presentation yet that contains details of the los angeles sheriff's department slice of the readers are supposed to help catch criminals information captured can be used to locate stolen vehicles and monitor area suspected of gang activity but most drivers don't fall into those categories there's no probable cause so basically our constitutional rights had invited the boston police department was forced to suspend its license plate leader program after it was discovered it mishandled data in focus its surveillance of the week and it's super rights groups fear technologies like predictably seen an automatic license plate recognition will each profile. when daddy and that's just how tall the government should work in a democratic society. we don't have a pre crime system of justice. lincoln's a minority report is more police departments embrace the license plate readers privacy advocates will fight to the limits of the technology that could eventually track everybody all the time. los angeles from now legal. archie. and now to tacoma washington where about seventy detainee is a privat

of it. discover department to make any innovation and earthquake technology meanwhile bolted into the double cork out of the previous year. you could conduct administrative functions of the department to replace other in that department. to argue that it's just not worth the money and the current bedding isn't transparent enough to halt a band that other countries that support a proposal to the japan america and his example. the quake prone country dependent and independent partner for earthquake. there's only a section of pre production but by the japan meteorological agency. you also said that the word job of combining by the geological survey in america as well. but in time to tell them look what you can see for earthquake that hit even china. to all but added that most of that year are not qualified creek researchers. and when the quake happened the refuge of the anti private matters weekly done by other departments. q concluded that the un yesterday keeping with the psychological bureau chewed him out of money every year. cover different voices to be heard as well the chinese poet john

it cost a quarter of a million dollars a year so the police department grappled with the idea of suspending the technologymay not be my top priority, but it is a tool we would get good use of of it. i have several competing things and we are trying to figure out how we fund all of these things going forward. >> many people in oakland tell us they want the police to keep shot spotter. >>> fire investigators have picked up where firefighters have left off after the big inferno in san francisco's mission bay. the firefighters wrapped up their hoses and left today. crews are still demolishing the remnants of the apartments that were being constructed when they went up in flames. the mayor is praising their actions. >> thank goodness it was under control. >> here is another look at the burned out shell. an early working theory of what caused the fire? welling. >>> highway patrol seeing how welding problems have been on the span of the bay bridge. the highway patrol says this investigation is administrative, not criminal. one focus is the way that cal trans transferred a quality control contract from one privat

the streets of oakland. >> reporter: now the interim police chief worries whether there's money to keep the technology at a cost of more than a quarter million dollars a year. a departmentys since people already call in when they hear gunfire, shotspotter is redundant. but today, the chief is telling a different story. >> it is a priority. it may not be my top priority, but i definitely think it's a tool we get good use out of. i would like to continue using it but i have several competing things. we are trying to figure out how we fund all these things going forward. >> reporter: many people say oakland needs the techgy

. >> the department of motor vehicle department, maybe not always a lot of great technological facilitiesd an obsession with anonymity and e-mail and some of the technical components that would allow you to create this kind of currency. it kind of makes sense. this guy is kind of denying that he was involved, quasi-denying it. as john mentioned, reporters have been chasing him around los angeles, in and out of news bureaus. it is kind of a wild story that "newsweek" seems to have kicked off. >> of all places, hollywood has got to be loving this. [laughter] >> you are right, it is mainly producers running after him. obviously, there is a fascination with bitcoin. now we can talk about the fascination with one individual. this idea, that for years, the discussions around digital currencies and the problems that there would be with having one dominant one -- we can go through all of the list, but we don't have time -- to be at a point where you've got so many people who are using bitcoin, and i think this week the winkle vos twins saying they will fly to space using bitcoin as payment -- it

to be here today to discuss the department of justice's ongoing efforts to assist agencies in improving their administration toll the foia. increasing use of technology to improve the public's access to information has been a key part of our work. over the past five years, we have seen agencies embrace technology in a wide variety of ways. agencies recognize the benefits of i.t. and are using ever more sophisticated technology improve access to information. one area that we have found technology to be particularly beneficial is this use of tools and applications that assist with the core task of processing foia requests. such as technology that assists in the search and review of records. automating those functions has the potential to improve timeliness in responding to requests. now, oip has hosted seminars and given presentations to our foia working group. last year 68 agencies reported using some type of advanced technology to increase their efficiency in deaths agencies -- in addition agencies are can use technology to improve with, a with the able. making more information available online is another way. given that pro-active disclosures can sa

mark fry is a professional at ucla's department of integrated are biology, the patch technology is justbeing developed as we gain a greater understanding of insects attraction to humans. this notion of a chemical cloak of some sort a more effective repellent, how feasible is it? only as feasible we try it. there's going to be glitches along the way. does the cloak wear off? how effective is it? at what concentration? do the animals adapt to it? there are solid answers. we are preparing for alarge field testing in uganda. we are really exciteabout this. 6.7 million hours of the patch, with real people, one of three districts we'll be testing them, all of which have exceptionally high mal malaria rates, as well as mosquito born diseases. >> ceo amra albana is responsible for this technology in order to get to people who need it most. >> it's very difficult to take new technologies and furnish them into tangible products that were ready for the marketplace. we are excited about it and the promise for the technology but we also knew we had a long way to actually get it ready. in the last 60

of the world. in this particular case, this technology has been demonstrated back in 2010. the departmentdefense work bircher --m called walter that was to fly for five --rs at high altar to allow themnd would to have internet in the parts of the world that do not. >> a drone that can provide internet access. we should think of it like a satellite? orbiting satellite that has the ability to maneuver within the band they want to to sell for the conductivity of communication. if you look at africa, those that skipped a generation of cell phones. they never put power lines or hard cable lines in the ground. now they have cell phone coverage. this is the exact same thing they will do with the internet, skip a generation of the internet and now go through low-flying orbital satellites that are called unmanned aircraft systems or drones. would this compare to what google has been focused on? both of the companies are more interested in more people using internet around the globe. >> what google is doing is they were looking at balloons that would fly at the higher altitudes that would allow the

mark fry is a professional at ucla's department of integrated are biology, the patch technology is justroach being developed as we gain a greater understanding of insects attraction to humans. this notion of a chemical cloak of some sort a more effective repellent, how feasible is it? only as feasible we try it. there's going to be glitches along the way. does the cloak wear off? how effective is it? at what concentration? do the animals adapt to it? there are solid answers. we are preparing for alarge field testing in uganda. we are really exciteabout this. 6.7 million hours of the patch, with real people, one of three districts we'll be testing them, all of which have exceptionally high mal malaria rates, as well as mosquito born diseases. >> ceo amra albana is responsible for this technology in order to get to people who need it most. >> it's very difficult to take new technologies and furnish them into tangible products that were ready for the marketplace. we are excited about it and the promise for the technology but we also knew we had a long way to actually get it ready. in the l

the department of energy is working on groundbreaking energy technologies. the department of transportation is studying transportation plans to address future risks and vulnerabilities from extreme weather and climate change. the department transportation is also addressing something that makes so much sense -- vehicle fuel efficiency that will save vehicle owners and operators billions of dollars a year. it also means less pollutants in the air. these are all positive changes, but before we rest on our laurels, we have to understand there are not -- they're not nearly enough to address the problem at hand. congress needs to cast aside partisan blinders and wake up by enacting legislation that sets as a priority renewable energy development that will support energy family farm efficien -- energy-efficient technology and legislation that will tax carbon pollution. it's time to take a stand against misguided policies and projects that put future generations at risk. in my state we believe that includes the keystone x.l. pipeline. the state department recently r

technology. ♪ ask the department of defense has made a big push to put more automated technologies on the battlefieldhe truck that man themselves, frankly, and put fewer soldiers at risk. take a look at this. >> of harvard business school professor is going to give us his take. ♪ >> carl icahn has been calling for ebay to spin off its paypal business for more than a month. now the battle is getting more personal. mark andreessen is defending his role on the ebay board calling the allegations false and misleading. he said i dispute all accusations that i have violated any of my duties, specifically throughout the ebay board process of divesting skype, i fully disclose my potential interest and recuse myself from all deliberations on the transaction. but this did not happen five years ago. why is carl icahn bringing it up now? guest joins us from boston. great to have you here. carl icahn wants to see some change at the board. he is advocating for change and his bringing up specifically what is perceived as a conflict of interest with mark andreessen with the skype transaction. cook and some of his inv

i do think the brief on behalf of the department of justice for the broadcasters was a very clear-cut, powerful argument that the area of technologys essentially a violation of the spirit of the law. i think it is meaningful -- if you are trying to read the tv, you would argue that the momentum is going the broadcasters' way. do investors were watching today really caring about? we care about the outcome of the case. you know what's going to happen at the end of the day. whether or not it is legal, aereo itself is a footnote in history if it does not find a distribution partner. it doesn't have the scale to make a difference. what investors want to know is, comcast'srecttv's and going to adopt this technology to somehow avoid paying retransmission consent fees? i don't think they are. what is the plan if paid tv does decide to copy his technology instead of fighting it? >> it's a free country. we have invested a tremendous amount of money and resources. this is a very complicated technology. i'm not suggesting we are the only people in the world that can solve these problems, but they are not that straightforward. >> when we hear

the streets of oakland. >> reporter: now the interim police chief worries whether there's money to keep the technology at a cost of more than a quarter million dollars a year. a department spokesman says since people already call in when they hear gunfire, shotspotter is redundant. but today, the chief is telling a different story. >> it is a priority. it may not be my top priority, but i definitely think it's a tool we get good use out of. i would like to continue using it but i have several competing things. we are trying to figure out how we fund all these things going forward. >> reporter: many people say oakland needs the technology. they say they hear gunshots so often, they don't even call to report it anymore. >> usually it's fairly late at night. we're in bed. and it's just oh, okay someone is shooting another gun. >> i would hope they would not get rid of it. the neighborhood really needs it. oakland really needs it. >> reporter: here's an example that people not everybody calls in. last month shotspotter recorded 258 reports of gunfire in west and east oakland alone. that same period, only 197 reports were called in by folks who live in oakland. so there's ab

of technology to combat this issue. los angeles may seem like an odd place to search for answers to ptsd. but the departmentf defense is finding encouraging results through partnerships with research institutes like the one at usc. skip riz izzo has experience in systems. >> buttoned down as the military why would they come to you guys for help? >> we're the odd alliance of hollywood, the military and academe ya bu academia. come from an interdisciplinary coming-together of people with different levels of expertise that can create something where the whe whole is greater than te sum of its parts. what we have seen over the past ten years is that the advances that have mapped in the area of technology have -- happened in the area of technology, making a difference for service members and veterans when they come back, the psychological difficulties. >> the institute for creative technology has created bravemind, a clinical interactive virtual reality tool. subjects are gradually immersed in environments to which they were deployed. from a remote afghan village to an iraqi marketplace, to recreate the situatio

of our time. such an environment will make sure that we are able to rapidly deliver the latest technological advances and these help the cost -- cut costs. while the department of defense and congress have partnered to undertake extensive acquisition reform efforts over the last past decade, i am concerned the unique type of rapid acquisition required to meet the needs of the air force's information technology, cyber missions, these pose unique challenges to the department of defense's acquisition system. what is the air force doing to address a specialized cyber acquisition needs and what other services long-term plans to make sure the air force is in a position to rapidly assess needs and field systems to meet the renewed requirements? >> i will begin with the philosophical comment. i agree that we have to focus on more rapidly delivering capability to the field. urgencyhis during the of the wartime environment and i don't want to see it totally -- a total return to the ways of the past are all of our programs take a long time to get going. we have pockets of this within the department. these pockets have to compete for those resources as long -- as well a

of educational technology. i started by asking about why the education department is encouraging a shift in print to digital. >>hing i am excited about is not the technology or digital part, but the learning part. one of the things that is fantastic is what you see teachers and students being able to do when they have tools in their hands. just a quick example. my son is learning algebra, using a tool to teach algebra, a game that he goes through. the awesome piece is after he completes an activity, i get an e-mail as a parent and says how this is what your kid learned today. not only this is what they learned, but this is an activity you can do at home to reinforce what he learned. that is exciting because it makes me a better parent, helps me be more engaged. from a teacher standpoint, they can personalize learning to the needs of individual students. i'm a student standpoint, it is powerful because technology helps to create creators. we are not just helping students memorize facts. we are building solutions and creating new media and actually reinventing and redesigning their learning. >> that is hard to ar

department to make any innovation and earthquake technology. you are altered into a double workout. it is here. you could conduct administrative functions of the department to replace other department. to argue that it's just not worth the money and the current study it and transparent enough to also mention that other countries would support a proposal to the japan america as his example the quake prone country. it doesn't have an independent arbiter earthquake. there's only a section of pre production led by the japan meteorological agency. you also said that it would all become by the united states geological survey in america as well. but in china that of the book would be key for earthquake the cities in china. to all who added that most of the half year are not qualified creek researchers and when the quake happened the refuge on the anti seismic measures were usually done by other departments. q concluded that the undead to keep even if the psychological bureau chewed him out of money every year. cover different voices to be heard well. the chinese poet john king khan. if you did not want to cancel that the pathological bureau. it o

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it has always been a tradition of limited federal or government interventions to public-private collaboration, especially in technology. complaining that u.s. department defense effort through the cold war built the technology industry in america. call thaty did not free enterprise or did not call that industrial policy but it had tremendous impact on the future of technology. i think these are limited intervention to stimulate collaboration that will lead to i think major returns for u.s. manufacturing technology. host: is there an unintended consequence yangon if you develop new technologies, are you developing technology that will take away jobs? guest: that is a very good question. i think that is separate from the technology have. we have a big question about the replacement of labor i machines in this country. i think that is a world challenge. maybe one of the institutes will take on the question of identifying what the human role is in working with machines rather than having them replaced humans. national network of manufacturing innovation is where you can find out more. .here is the from page for you we have a link on twitter if you would l

side a couple of seconds left but i want to note that the department of commerce has been an instrumental partner in the growth of water technology cluster in the milwaukee area known as the water council. i hope we can perhaps have a visit from you and others in the administration to see the fine work that's being done there. i'm going to be submitting some additional questions for the record as my time has expired. >> absolutely. >> senator crapo. >> director burwell, welcomed a couple just in my time to get clarity on some of the numbers as we move through analyzing the budget. first of what is returned to the $56 billion in discretionary spending that senator sessions was discussing with you. i understand the discussion you and senator sessions had. the question i have is you indicated that $56 billion is fully paid for. i just would like to know, to be sure we're clear how it's paid for. is that in the text of increases that are in the budget? >> there are specific revenue areas in terms of what we think are loopholes, as well as mandatory spending cuts. so it is paid for both by spending cuts as well as revenue changes. >>

next year's and rec staff and all of our vacancies more quickly a new i t position for notation and technology including ability for the public to enact with our department and make services more efficient this is an ongoing process that has an opening fact like day camp register and program registration where we're planning for the citizen technology for the exhibition at the palace of fine arts and staff training as well as some funding for materials and supplies for park volunteer projects. then we're also proposing to fund an initially investment to upgrade our management software that's one of our poor business platforms. so we're really pleased to be able to prop those investments in our strategic priority and we really building that the additional fuchd will help the department improve our delivery of public safety and active living and customer service. so we submit our budget to the mayor's office tomorrow and then begin several months of negotiations with our come parties in the budget office and then, of course, the mayor will submit his budget to the board of supervisors on june 1st. and i'm pleased to answer questions >> commissioner levitan

atmospheric administration, the department of energy, the environmental protection agency, the nuclear regulatory commission and the national institute of standards and technology. all said the same thing -- it's not their responsibility. >> one of our frustrations is our government hasn't taken this on as something we should sponsor in terms of our national interests. there is often a lot of finishing pointing going on and we hope in the long run we can make progress to find a home, as we call it. >> reporter: in the mean time, he is relying on foundation support and doing some crowd sourcing. >> all it takes is filling up one of these containers. >> reporter: he launched a web site and created these kits to make it easy for anyone to do some fieldwork. interested individuals and communities pay $550 for the fox, gather samples and ship them to woods hall for analysis. the data is shared online. so far donors have funded 33 sample sites. but how is the radiation affecting the creatures that live in the sea and ultimately the human beings who enjoy eating seafood? >> this one. at's cesium 134. >> reporter: in new york at stoney brooke university, this man is fo

is it the reality of our times that we're able to rapidly deliver the latest technological advances and these in turn help cut costs and protect our airmen and women. while the department of defense and congress partnered to undertake extensive acquisition reform efforts over the past decades i'm concerned that the unique type of rapid acquisition required to meet the needs of the air force's information technology, cyber missions, that these pose unique challenges to the department of defense's acquisition system. so what is the air force doing to address a specialized i.t. and cyber acquisition needs of the force? and what are the services long-term plans to make sure that the air force is in a position to rapidly assess needs and field systems to meet the new requirements? >> so i will just begin with a philosophical comment. i totally agree with you that we have to focus on more rapidly delivering capability to the field. we did this during the urgency of war-time environment and i do not want to see us totally return to the ways of the past all of our programs take a deliberative and long term period to get going. we have pockets of this within the department of d

who was a condi rice protege that had been at the state department who did a lot of innovative things with text messaging and other forms of technology to affect foreign policy. he's now the head of google ideas. he was definitely not an insider, but, you know, ended up being very crucial to what he was doing. anne marie slaughter was an academic brought in to run the policy planning office. you saw a willingness to try to address deficiencies in her operation by bringing new people in, and i think that was hard for her certainly on the campaign and previous to that. and i would argue that's one of the big things that you could see over time was just sort of opening up a little bit to new ideas and people. >> i think you brought up the new hampshire moment, too, and i think that moment, i think you guys will remember the moment where she cried a little bit. i think that was really hard for her to understand, that people really wanted to see that emotional side of her, that they wanted her to embrace the fact that she was a woman candidate. and so i think that -- and, you know, even at the end there was some discussion, like how much

legislative analyst's audit plan the department of public health's compliance with privacy and security regulations as defined by the health information technology for economic and clinical health act and health insurance portability and accountability act, previously approved by the city clerk: sf 212341234 >>supervisor london breed: thank you. i requested this report and they completed an audit from the practices to retain and perform fire staff. we reviewed this audit in detail and the fire department and department of human resources. frankly and as i said there were some alarming revelations about services. people are calling 9-1-1 because a pedestrian has been sit and the fire department sometimes has no am ambulances to send. this is happening on an average of 8 times each days. these medics calls have increased by a large percent. if this is happening everyday what would happen in an event of an earthquake or other major disaster in san francisco. that's not all but under the agreement with the medical treatment authority the fire department is supposed to respond to medical calls in san francisco. remaining non-compliant can seriously a