San Francisco announced the creation of a new internal digital agency and is looking for a chief digital services officer to lead its efforts.
‘We see this digital space of empowering our citizens as the next generation of city government.’
Great “Connected Empowerment” video featuring San Francisco Chief Innovation Officer Jay Nath and civic action platform, Neighborland.
Brian Solis interviews SF innovation chief
Watch San Francisco Chief Innovation Officer Jay Nath being interviewed by Brian Solis.
Hacking taxis and ‘making life in SF a little better’
Last February, officials from San Francisco collaborated with the California College of the Arts and Mix & Stir Studio for the SF Taxi & Mass Communication Challenge, a 24-hour hackathon focused on “design-driven technology solutions to real world problems.”
Jay Nath named San Francisco chief innovation officer
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Jay Nath has been appointed Chief Innovation Officer for the City and County of San Francisco.
Open source government
San Francisco Director of Innovation Jay Nath’s TEDxSoMa talk from earlier this year:
SF CIO, Innovation Director discuss city’s tech progress, innovation
San Francisco Chief Information Officer Jon Walton and Director of Innovation Jay Nath discuss government innovation and the work they’re doing within the SF Department of Technology.
SF Director of Innovation Jay Nath on the value of a city innovation officer
City of San Francisco’s Department of Technology Jay Nath on why government should have an innovation officer.
Video highlights from TransportationCamp West
Video highlights from the recent TransportationCamp West held in San Francisco are now available thanks to StreetFilms.
Building Gov 2.0 community in San Francisco
Building Gov 2.0 Community in San Francisco: Abhi Nemani of Code for America, Jay Nath of the SF Dept. of Technology, and Chris Heuer, co-founder of the Social Media Club, join Gov 2.0 Radio to talk about building sustainable Gov 2.0 community at the grassroots level.
OpenSF re-launches, San Francisco will hold ‘Third Thursdays SF’ monthly meet-ups
Two important San Francisco open government announcements from OpenSF founders and contributors Jay Nath and Adriel Hampton.
Fresh wrap: sf.govfresh
Public servants, developers and entrepreneurs gathered together to discuss and learn about the civic value of open data and how the City of San Francisco and private citizens are leveraging this opportunity at sf.govfresh, Sept. 1, at Adobe Systems’ San Francisco offices. Speakers included San Francisco Chief Information Officer Chris Vein, Mom Maps Founder & CEO Jill Seman, San Francisco Department of Technology Director of Innovation Jay Nath, Stamen Partner Michal Migurski, Routesy Founder Steven Peterson and SF Environment Internet Communications Coordinator Lawrence Grodeska.
Gov 2.0 guide to San Francisco
San Francisco is one of a few major U.S. cities leading the way in the open government, Gov 2.0 movement. SF has opened up data, issued an agency-wide open government directive and continues to pursue innovative opportunities around this effort. (See all SF news at sf.govfresh.com)
Here’s an overview.
InformationWeek video features SF’s open government efforts
InformationWeek features San Francisco’s open data initiative and DataSF.org. Executive editor Fritz Nelson interviews SF mayor Gavin Newsom, SF CTO Blair Adams, SF Director of Innovation Jay Nath and developers building applications from this newly-open data.
SF mayor Newsom addresses open government plan to department heads
San Francisco public officials, including Mayor Gavin Newsom, discuss the launch of launch of DataSF.org and the city’s open government initiative at a meeting with city department heads. Highlights include Newsom’s overview of why the effort is important and Tim O’Reilly’s talk on government as a platform.
San Francisco’s DataSF launch
Here’s video from the August 2009 news conference announcing the launch of DataSF.org, San Francisco’s open data site, which provides “structured, raw and machine-readable government data to the public in an easily downloadable format.”
The press conference is attended by SF officials and technology entrepreneurs, including SF Mayor Gavin Newsom, SF CIO Chris Vein, SF Dept of Public Works head Ed Riskin, SF Director of Innovation Jay Nath, Tim O’Reilly and WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg. There’s a general Q&A that includes examples of how citizens and entrepreneurs are leveraging the newly-opened data.
Gov 2.0 Radio: The Promise of Open Data
We talk with City of San Francisco CTO Blair Adams, SF innovations manager Jay Nath, and Web developer Tom Croucher about the open access to government data.