1 San Francisco Innovation and Cloud Journey Jon Walton Chief
Information Officer [email protected] Slide 2 San Francisco
Government Combined City and County Government Structure Elected
Mayor and 11 Supervisors Over 800,000 residents Annual Budget of
$7.4 billion Over 25,000 city and county staff 60 departments
Highly decentralized and independent. Slide 3 San Francisco Drivers
for Change and Adoption of IT Cloud Services Culture Shift
Leadership Public Perception Changing work force Budget Shortfalls!
IT Benefits Cost Speed to Implement Scalability Disaster Readiness!
I want us to ask ourselves every day, how are we using technology
to make a real difference in peoples lives. President Barack Obama
The Australian government has issued its finalized guide for
government agencies looking to move to the cloud. - Josh Taylor,
ZDNet NIST Issues Cloud Computing Guidelines for Managing Security
and Privacy. - NIST Tech Beat, 2012 EU policy-makers roll out red
carpet for cloud adoption. - The Channel, David McLeman Slide 4
Email WCM System Permit System Private Cloud VMs Social Media
Having Less can Lead to Innovation 4 Reduce staff expense through
position reductions Reduce expenses through deferred hardware
replacement Budget Savings Decisions Result in Cloud First Policy
& Operations Slide 5 Mobile Adoption Growing Slide 6 Mobile
Government Objectives. Deliver service and common experience across
multiple platforms at lowest possible cost. Leverage hybrid
(open/prop.) technologies (HTML5, javascript frameworks, etc) to
build cross platform solution. Lay flexible foundations to
accommodate changes in fast evolving mobile technology space. Slide
7 Government Services on Mobile Platforms Cloud based video
streaming services have been integrated with the SFGov mobile app
to enable citizens to watch or listen video of public meetings
anytime anywhere just by using their smartphone (IOS &
Android). 7 IT professionals and CIOs must understand the nexus
forces of mobile and cloud, which are closely related, because many
mobile apps and solutions will exploit cloud services. - Gartner,
The Future of Mobile Cloud, Sept. 2012 CIO 100 Award 2012 Hermes
Creative Award 2012 Horizon Interactive Award 2012 PTI Solutions
Award 2012 Sunny Transparency Award - 2012 Slide 8 OPEN DATA &
OPEN GOVERNMENT 8 Slide 9 New Government IT Approach Old Approach
1.Problem(s) Identified 2.Funding requested or projects prioritized
3.Progress limited by process or resources available 4.Frustration
due to lack of progress or missed opportunities New Approach 1.Data
made available to everyone 2.Needs identified or challenges issued
3.Events coordinated 4.Solutions generated 5.Progress linked to
public interest or demand 9 Less funding, less staff, more
community interest Slide 10 Open Data Launch of DataSF.org in Aug
2009 Over 280 datasets published Over 60 applications developed
Open data legislation issued in Nov 2010 Slide 11 DataSF Webiste 11
Slide 12 Community Collaboration to Build Applications Slide 13
Consumer and Private Business Developed Applications Slide 14 More
Data = More Applications Slide 15 Joint Data Sharing Platforms CIOs
from 7 large cities working together to normalize 1,500 datasets on
a common platform for multi-city application development. 15 Slide
16 Challenges & Ideas Challenge City silo affect - the
political invisible boundary. Long term sustainability of
application ecosystem. User adoption and use Ideas Joint Sharing
Sites. Easy to use APIs. Data Standardization and normalization.
Joint G7+ collaboration to innovate will create national / global
solutions Good Mobile apps will be more widely used and
adopted.
