Mernit 2012 tech raker preso

City Hacks: Data Sets & Economic Development Oakland, CA Case study TechRaking Susan Mernit April 12, 2012 MTV-‐42-‐3-‐Valencia #trpowerlocal 1

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? 2

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 4

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 •  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… 6

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…. 7

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. 8

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 9

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