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 gps, what else can be done . How can the federal government work with cities, with platforms like cities. Data,. Gov and other systems like that. How can we liberate some of this data while also protecting privacy and confidentiality which is hugely important and something that were seeking to celebrate and support in a way our customers which im sitting alongside here, for the entrepreneurs and th
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 and audience members. Its a good thing were here. It is a initiative launched by the white house but industry led. You should be able to get your own energy data in a machine readable format you can then give to companies, organizations like the ones being celebrated here today to provide real value to you such as saving money, improving energy efficiency, and protecting the environment. So, the gre
Entrepreneurs in and see what can be done and created Real Products within a few months. That is being rolled out at education, energy, treasury, u. S. Aid, other agencies as well. These programs are celebrating the use of open data and hopefully will provide some additional support. I think there are even folks here who have been part of these events. Were excited for that continued support and hope you can all join this initiative in the neutral. Future. So, earlier you were talking a little about kind of how San Francisco came in in terms of actually ading the officer. More broadly how do you think San Francisco compares and what are some of the other cities that are doing really well in terms of open data . I should be clear. When San Francisco is third, we have a pact. Ill add to that actually. Whats great in San Francisco is there is not just going to be a chief data officer. There is also the office of civic innovation. Jays team, shannons team. By having both of those units in
Collaborative consumption of sharing taxis, build a dash panel for companies to know where to go. Had i hatch i had been working on a model to see how much overlap there was. They sent us to tokyo to work on that. So, this one set, a million records of where the taxis were not only led to a lot of innovation, but people realized 15 of all taxi routes kind of where people went, about 15 of that was all overlapped. So, a city that never really thought about collaborative consumption or sharing suddenly is looking at that. Parking data was opened up similarly about a million records of where people werent parking and within a couple of days predictive analytic app was written. Go to a parking reservation thing. The carrier local phone Company Released pairs of where people were all over town. A lot of privacy issues. We wrote a contract around that. All of that led to a huge amount of innovation and new forms of thinking. And even as i look at what goes on with teams working in San Franci
Necessarily, but when you take your green button data and you give it to some companies, they have Amazing Things they can do with that green button to, again, save you money. Something as simple as if you look at your green button which is kilowatt hours for those that are engineering minded, a line grab if you think about t 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 to have a Health Data Palooza proceeded by health data jambs or modelin