Phil, mayor lee, jay driving behind the scenes, the efforts for business to work with government. And i think weve accomplished that with this unique partnership moving forward. Were excited now theres crossdepartment collaboration with the San Francisco arts, with the San Francisco public art which has now been thanks to sean working late last night, putting the public arts into golden gate park. This is providing access. Its providing efficiency, and its providing new Revenue Streams and opportunities for the city of San Francisco and other departments. We are really excited to be here and i thank you all again for this opportunity to be able to innovate, to be able to work with the city of San Francisco, and have this Incredible Opportunity to be here at the hatchery launching our application and our company. Thank you very much. applause thank you, yo. So, San Francisco has been a leader in open data for the past three years nationally. In 2009 we launched our open Data Initiative,
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 the Community Together or you
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 the Community Together or you have people actually talking about it because the demand side, as we were talking about i
Wherever they want, listen to whatever music, eat whatever they want, that doesnt mean they are cynically free. That is the emphasis. You have to engage in democracy. My dad used to say, if your user rights, you want to lose your rights. If you had to pick another country in the world, only if you had to, where would you find a country that would maybe do it better than us . On possiblyending holland, scandinavia, canada. I think our democracy is being depleted. It is weaker now. More concentrated power in the hands of few against many, and government snooping, corporations playing with our country, exporting jobs and industry and all the fine print that we have to sign the dotted line, the poverty is increasing. We are not competitive anymore when it comes to justice. We are not the standard. Australia has a minimum wage. If youre over 20, it is 16 and . 90. If youre under 20, disease at 13 an hour or 11 an hour and has a lower unemployment rate. By the way, you have to vote in federa
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