It was really interesting. And then in my first meeting, in our first meeting with the innovation group, the city i heard of 10 other things that i clearly should have been using and didnt even know existed, literally within the first 15 minutes of the meeting. Ss things like street safety, sidewalk safety scores and quality scores so we could wrap people around places. Route people around places. Really unbelievable. We availed ourselves of resources going forward. We had the same like any data set, you find great things about it. Then theres missing values or is thisxtion that got auto populated. We fixed a lot of things. We fixed a lot of gps coordinates. We would love the ability to post that back up. Even if youre not crowd sourcing new things, you can definitely crowd source quality of a data set that way. Yeah, its been a really great experience working with 100 plus and motion loft. Just to respond, i think that this is a whole new opportunity actually what youre talking about.
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
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 place i think there is going to be a really powerful team. Because you cant just open up the data. You have to do things like this, where you get
So, we have a unique problem, i think, to a lot of startups in the fact that we have a product that we sell and a lot of different vertical. We also have data we want to provide to the society at large. And how do we not step on our own toes and give away our own data and make the company worthless. So, its tough. Its a definite fine line between the two. Today we announced that were going to give crowding data to the city so youll know where crowds are in the city and when they occur and where they occur. And that really isnt commercially viable for us. So, something we can provide to the city without any repercussions financially, which is great. We want to do more of those things. I made the decision to release this data about three minutes before a speech that i gave at spur a couple weeks ago. And literally, yeah, i was committed obviously, jay took me up the second i said t we have to go talk now. Okay. So, jay walked it down. I think jay is great for partnering with startups as
Post that back up. Even if youre not crowd sourcing new things, you can definitely crowd source quality of a data set that way. Yeah, its been a really great experience working with 100 plus and motion loft. Just to respond, i think that this is a whole new opportunity actually what youre talking about. In addition to reaching out to the private sector to generate more data sets as you just mentioned, theres also the opportunity to have better data sets from the work that youve done, scrubbing them and harmonizing them. I think there is also this really great opportunity to generate whole new types of data sets like motion loft is doing. And i think that this is going to present something kind of back to the city, showing where some of our gaps are and hopefully filling in some of those gaps with those data sets. So, i think that there is something about having more city data sets, existing data sets as well as creating new types of data. This is really exciting for us. Were going to t