Mark is such a visionary and i think we have years of great things to come out of our department of technology and this is just the first step. And lastly i want to thank my staff and in particular wherever margo is, mar cokelly. Margo kelly. Margo spent the last two years quarterbacking this project. She spent so many hours of her life dedicate today bringing this to the residents of San Francisco and we shall all be incredibly thankful. The benefits of free wifi in San Francisco are many. Not only will it further open up our parks and our city to innovation, to education, and includetionthv i. For all San Francisco residents, but its also as i mentioned before a significant step towards bridging our Digital Divide in our city. It provides local groups and Community Residents access to the internet they might not have had before, as well for our rec and Park Department as phil knows all too well many rec centers still use dial up service. When we think about registering our children f
Government in a Publicprivate Partnership with Companies Like google and all the rest of the wonderful members of sf city to do what we can do and to do more than we think we can. In order to bring benefits, bring equity, bridge not only the Digital Divide, but perhaps bring the whole innovative spirit to every community in San Francisco. This is what i think this wifi effort of our 31 parks is saying. And the nice thing about it is that when you study what were going to do here and accomplish with the 31 parks, and that we along with our Technology Partners, our communications partners, our department leaders, new ones as well as old ones, are saying this is just the beginning. This is literally the beginning of a continued effort to innovate, innovate, and innovate. And i like what mark said. Not only are there no strings attached. Really the benefits are targeted at our residents and our visitors, but that the only thing were going to see is wireless connected to our fiber. Were lea
San francisco to bring free wifi to 31 different parks, plazas, and open spaces across our city. From areas such as the marina green to Washington Square park to sunset playground, all a moe square, civic center, Bernal Heights to right here in balboa park, this project is going to touch parks and plazas across all of San Francisco in every corner of our city. San francisco has been a leader in our Technology Community and our Technology Economy across our country and now we get to continue to play a role in being a leader bringing Technology Solutions to improve the lives of our residents here in our city. Its been a privilege to work on this project and to lead this effort the last two years and look forward to bringing the Broader Vision of free wifi across San Francisco in the next few years with all the partners behind me today. This has been a strong collaboration on behalf of a lot of partners. In particular, google, sf city, our recreation and Park Department as well as our dep
Life dedicate today bringing this to the residents of San Francisco and we shall all be incredibly thankful. The benefits of free wifi in San Francisco are many. Not only will it further open up our parks and our city to innovation, to education, and includetionthv i. For all San Francisco residents, but its also as i mentioned before a significant step towards bridging our Digital Divide in our city. It provides local groups and Community Residents access to the internet they might not have had before, as well for our rec and Park Department as phil knows all too well many rec centers still use dial up service. When we think about registering our children for camps and play grounds, what we need to do in our daily lives, but also our government on a daily basis to use technology, this will be an incredible boone to our rec and Park Department and something we should all be very excited about. In terms of the details of the gift, google is providing a 600,000 financial gift to our city
Touched a lot of desks and had a lot of approvals and in particular want to thank Veronika Bell who is here from google for stepping p. Up. Google is providing a financial gift of 600,000 to turn this into a reality. This is with the recreation and Park Department. I want to thank Phil Ginsberg, katy, so many people from the rec and park team that really brought this project forward. We selected locations throughout San Francisco on a number of levels. First of all, we wanted to make sure that we continue to bridge our Digital Divide that exists not only throughout our country, but here in San Francisco, to place Free Wifi Networks in under served communities and across different parts of San Francisco. But also to make sure that we provide wifi access in some of the most heavily trafficked parks and plazas in our city so we can have the greatest impact throughout our great city. I want to thank sf city for their Strong Partnership in this project. We started working together a little