Mernit 2012 tech raker preso

City Hacks: Data Sets & Economic Development Oakland, CA Case study

TechRaking Susan Mernit April 12, 2012

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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?

We wanted to build apps for underserved communiSes but there was no data back then…

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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 ? 3

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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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 5

Making connecSons between $$ , jobs, data & tech @City Hall

•  San Francisco –  SFMade.org: support manufacturing

–  SFCiS: 100+ tech companies supporHng tech job training

–  Rising costs for commercial real estate, SOMA sold out

–  Twi_er, Zynga, Call Socket expansions

•  Oakland -‐-‐Occupy Oakland

encampments downtown

-‐-‐PercepHons of danger vs. Wired, affordable commercial

real estate

-‐-‐No one organized tech/innovaHon/business org

Oakland is starSng to get it…

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Momentum: Q 2-‐Q3 2012

•  Data –  Open Data ResoluHon: Make all city data accessible

–  New open releases from Urban Strategies data warehouse

–  Planning Code for Oakland #2, Summer 2012

•  Economics –  Proposing Hack the Hood tech economic development pilot in East Oakland w/ Oakland Local, Youth Uprising, CTN, others

–  Incubators & meet-‐ups: HubOakland, NewME, 2DotOakland, Tech Liminal Hack Nights, more….

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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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If you’d like to get involved with tech in Oakland, get in touch with folks in Oakland…

Susan Mernit, Oakland Local, [email protected], @susanmernit Steve Spiker, Urban Strategies Council, [email protected], @spjika

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