Presentation on the impact of Open Data on Oakland, CA's economic development, awareness for Google/CIR TechRaking conference 2012

1. City
Hacks:
Data
Sets
&
Economic
Development
Oakland,
CA
Case
study
TechRaking
Susan
Mernit
April
12,
2012
MTV-­‐42-­‐3-­‐Valencia
#trpowerlocal
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2. We
wanted
to
build
apps
for
underserved
communiSes
but
there
was
no
data
back
then…
Oakland,
CA
March
2011
• 390,000
people
• 159
year
old
city
• 170
languages
spoken
• NO
data
catalog
• No
Gov2.0
• No
#OpenData
How
do
we
hack?
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3. April
2012:
It’s
ALL
changing
• Data
catalog:
61
APIs
&
Flat
files
from
City
of
Oakland
and
Alameda
County
• 3
new
apps
with
local
employment,
transportaHon
data
• 2
new
tech
incubators
launching
Q4
2012
• Planning
Code
for
Oakland
2
for
2012
• Holding
NewMe
Accelerator
mixer
April
20th
• Relaunched
2
Dot
Oakland
tech
umbrella
group
• Proposed
City
Council
Open
Data
ResoluSon
May
2012
So
what
happened
?
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4. How
did
Oakland
shiQ?
• Code
for
Oakland
Hack
Day,
June
2011
• SubmiSng
3
apps
to
Knight/
FCC
compeHHon
from
CFO
• ONE
of
our
apps
won
3rd
prize-­‐-­‐$10,000
+
$5,000
for
best
SMS
• #1
winner
based
on
CFO
hack
day
concept-­‐$30,000
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5. Code
for
America
involvement
• Open
Data/Gov
2.0
organizaSon
with
founders,
staff
living
in
Oakland
• Strong
support
of
Code
for
Oakland,
Urban
Strategies
data
projects
• Bridge
to
San
Francisco
innovaSons
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6. Making
connecSons
between
$$
,
jobs,
data
&
tech
@City
Hall
• San
Francisco
• Oakland
– SFMade.org:
support
-­‐-­‐Occupy
Oakland
manufacturing
encampments
downtown
– SFCiS:
100+
tech
-­‐-­‐PercepHons
of
danger
vs.
companies
supporHng
Wired,
affordable
commercial
tech
job
training
real
estate
– Rising
costs
for
-­‐-­‐No
one
organized
tech/
commercial
real
estate,
innovaHon/business
org
SOMA
sold
out
– Twi_er,
Zynga,
Call
Oakland
is
starSng
to
get
Socket
expansions
it…
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7. Momentum:
Q
2-­‐Q3
2012
• Data
• Economics
– Open
Data
ResoluHon:
– Proposing
Hack
the
Make
all
city
data
Hood
tech
economic
accessible
development
pilot
in
– New
open
releases
from
East
Oakland
w/
Oakland
Urban
Strategies
data
Local,
Youth
Uprising,
warehouse
CTN,
others
– Planning
Code
for
– Incubators
&
meet-­‐ups:
Oakland
#2,
Summer
HubOakland,
NewME,
2012
2DotOakland,
Tech
Liminal
Hack
Nights,
more….
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8. The
View
from
here:
Oakland
needs
to
conSnue
to
evolve
to
parScipate
in
Open
Data/
Gov
2.0
movement
• Open
Data
leads
to
economic
development
• Economic
development
leads
to
jobs
• Tech
job
training
ensures
Oaklanders
are
trained
to
do
the
jobs
• Workforce
leads
to
companies
leads
to
jobs
leads
to
money
in
Oakland
Next
steps:
Apply
for
Code
for
America,
2013
More
tech
economic
soluSons
&
tools
based
on
open
local
data
More
tech
folk
who
can
work
where
they
live.
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9. If
you’d
like
to
get
involved
with
tech
in
Oakland,
get
in
touch
with
folks
in
Oakland…
Susan
Mernit,
Oakland
Local,
susan@oaklandlocal.com,
@susanmernit
Steve
Spiker,
Urban
Strategies
Council,
steves@urbanstrategies.org,
@spjika
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