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, one of the first cities to do so. In 2010 we partnered with the white house to launch open 311 api, the first ever read write api for cities. We now have over 40 cities that have joined us. In 2011 we
Thank you very much. applause now, if i may introduce our partner in crime here, board president david chiu who is also going to be complimenting us with all of his efforts at the board. Come on up, david. applause good morning. I am incredibly excited to be here today for a couple of reasons. First of all, the hatchery is one of my Favorite Places in the city. There is truly a bee hive of activity of the newest innovations that San Francisco will be famous for. I also love the fact that just a couple of blocks from here is where our San Francisco giants are moving on to the world series. But just in this room, all of you are giants and making sure that San Francisco is the World Champion when it comes to innovation. 13 years ago, i like all of you started a company. I started in iti a Technology Company in the 1. 0 world. It was a company that created technology to connect citizens better with government. I ran it for almost nine years. And when i was elected to office four years ago,
Reasons. First of all, the hatchery is one of my Favorite Places in the city. There is truly a bee hive of activity of the newest innovations that San Francisco will be famous for. I also love the fact that just a couple of blocks from here is where our San Francisco giants are moving on to the world series. But just in this room, all of you are giants and making sure that San Francisco is the World Champion when it comes to innovation. 13 years ago, i like all of you started a company. I started in iti a Technology Company in the 1. 0 world. It was a company that created technology to connect citizens better with government. I ran it for almost nine years. And when i was elected to office four years ago, i was unfortunately more surprised than i wanted to be about how far behind San Francisco government was. This was very 2008, 2009. With you im really proud of the leaps and bounds we have taken as a city. I was proud in 2010 to help move forward legislation to really bring together c
Now, if i may introduce our partner in crime here, board president david chiu who is also going to be complimenting us with all of his efforts at the board. Come on up, david. applause good morning. I am incredibly excited to be here today for a couple of reasons. First of all, the hatchery is one of my Favorite Places in the city. There is truly a bee hive of activity of the newest innovations that San Francisco will be famous for. I also love the fact that just a couple of blocks from here is where our San Francisco giants are moving on to the world series. But just in this room, all of you are giants and making sure that San Francisco is the World Champion when it comes to innovation. 13 years ago, i like all of you started a company. I started in iti a Technology Company in the 1. 0 world. It was a company that created technology to connect citizens better with government. I ran it for almost nine years. And when i was elected to office four years ago, i was unfortunately more surp
Exemplary way. And i think were going to have a lot more to announce before this month is out, including on our way to the world series. Thank you very much. applause now, if i may introduce our partner in crime here, board president david chiu who is also going to be complimenting us with all of his efforts at the board. Come on up, david. applause good morning. I am incredibly excited to be here today for a couple of reasons. First of all, the hatchery is one of my Favorite Places in the city. There is truly a bee hive of activity of the newest innovations that San Francisco will be famous for. I also love the fact that just a couple of blocks from here is where our San Francisco giants are moving on to the world series. But just in this room, all of you are giants and making sure that San Francisco is the World Champion when it comes to innovation. 13 years ago, i like all of you started a company. I started in iti a Technology Company in the 1. 0 world. It was a company that create