clerk: item 52 is motion appointing jared cohen term ending november 19, 2012 or for the tenure of the current supervisor who nominated the member whichever is shorter in duration to the bicycle advisory committee. president chiu: this motion is approved. clerk: supervisor elsbernd first on roll call for introductions. supervisor campos. supervisor campos: thank you very much, madam clerk, colleagues. i'll try to be as brief as i can. the first item is that i am introducing today a proposed contract that begins the first phase of the city's community choice aggregation program. i want to thank the san francisco public utilities commission for all their work. i also want to thank my colleagues on the local agency information commission and in particular supervisor mirkarimi who has for many years been working on this matter. i look forward to having more in depth discussion with all of you and there will be an opportunity to fully vet this program but again we're excited that we're taking this step and i also want to acknowledge the work of so many people over the years who have made th

understood better what was going on there i also asked a former student of mine, a gentleman named jared cohen, who would later on go to work for secretary clinton to go and start thinking about, did we want to even try to help people to use social media to demomcrat ties. so he created groups of friends who, for instance, people who helped to overthrow terrorism in colombia, who could chat with anymore the middle east who were trying to deal with terrorism. so we were starting to use social media. what i've begun to understand now -- social media is an accelerant. not a cause but an accelerant. what is very interesting is what is happening with social media in china, because the regime is doing everything it can to control the internet. it's terrified of the internet. in fact, hacking into servers to find the last human rights at slow cat who might be online, and apparently social media is going wild in champion. the regime is not so certain that maybe it's -- maybe it's not a bad thing, that people have a way to vent through social media. so, you remember the story of this young girl that wa

i also asked a former student of mine, a gentleman named jared cohen, who would later on go to work for secretary clinton. to go and start thinking about, did we want to even try to help people to use social media to democratize? so he created groups of friends who would -- for instance, people who helped to overthrow terrorism in colombia, who could chat with people in the middle east who were trying to deal with terrorism. so we were starting to use social media. what i've begun to understand now -- social media is an accelerant. it's not the cause but an accelerant. what is interesting is what is happening with social media in china because the regime is doing everything it can to control the internet. it's terrified of the internet. in fact, packing into serveries to try to find that last human rights advocate who might be online, and apparently social media is going wild in china. and the regime is not so certain that maybe it's not a bad thing, that people have a way to vent through social media. so, you remember the story of this young girl that was run over in the streets and pe

jared cohen is the director of googled ideas.ng technology base solutions to confront challenges from counter-terrorism to non- proliferation. at the age of 24, during the bush administration, he was brought into the secretary of state paz of policy planning, the youngest person to serve in this capacity. i agree, nauseating. [laughter] he continued to serve under hillary clinton. he championed the use of technology as a tool to empower the poor and those without voice. jared cohen is an informed of the work moves divers knowledge into action. congratulations. ♪ [applause] >> thank you very much. this is an incredible honor. as somebody who loves history, to stand up here at ford the there and look over there, it is really incredible. we were asked to say the things about leadership. having just turned 30 and looking at my fellow honorees, i think it is safer for me to tell you a story. it was inspiring to me and changed and shaped my view of what a leader is. seven years ago, while i was in graduate school, i took a trip to iran