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Coaxing a city into the digital age :: Architecture leader at GE Digital, a mom, born in Pakistan, and the first woman of color to be elected to the San Ramon (CA) city council (republished from August 2019)

June 15, 2021 by Ted Cuzzillo

Take a look at the San Ramon City Council’s official portrait and see what you notice. What’s hard to miss is four white men of about Boomer age standing shoulder to shoulder — and in line with them one young woman rising just above their belly height. She’s about to shake things up there by coaxing the city into the digital age.

She’s Sabina Zafar, architecture leader at GE Digital, a mom, born in Pakistan, and the first woman of color to be elected to the city council. She knew from the start her job wouldn’t be easy, as she’s found out since being elected in November 2018, later as vice-mayor.… Read the rest “Coaxing a city into the digital age :: Architecture leader at GE Digital, a mom, born in Pakistan, and the first woman of color to be elected to the San Ramon (CA) city council (republished from August 2019)”

Filed Under: city tech Tagged With: Bay Area, Cities, city government, culture, digital disruption, recruiting, Sabina Zafar Leave a Comment

How one San Francisco-area city found its own “cool”:: What does it take to make a dull city smart? Longtime San Francisco-area chief innovation officer has answers

June 8, 2021 by Ted Cuzzillo

This post was originally published on Datadoodle on September 6, 2019

Imagine the moment your boss makes it clear why he hired you, and it’s not the reason he once gave you. You’re three months into your new job as chief innovation officer in a decidedly uncool suburban city near San Francisco. You’d been told the job was all about a new fiber-optic loop. Now, you hear, it’s all about making the place “cool.”

The moment comes at a city council meeting. The mayor bangs his fist on the dais and says to council members and staff, “Look, I just want this city to be cool.… Read the rest “How one San Francisco-area city found its own “cool”:: What does it take to make a dull city smart? Longtime San Francisco-area chief innovation officer has answers”

Filed Under: city tech, innovation Tagged With: Bay Area, civic tech, Deborah Acosta, Derek Lee, San Leandro, smart cities Leave a Comment

“Dean of Big Data” Bill Schmarzo: “smart” takes a community :: Cash-strapped cities get help from volunteer coders (Reposted and updated)

June 2, 2021 by Ted Cuzzillo

“I love civic tech,” says the data industry’s “Dean of Big Data” Bill Schmarzo, renowned data science and data monetization strategic advisor. He loves it, and he has ideas about how to make it work. It takes more than love to bear fruit.

Civic tech is possibly the most exciting aspect of “smart cities” today. Think of it: Cities want the technology to make them work better, but they have no money. What’s slightly more plentiful are talented young and not so young coders willing to help. Many of them are millennials, and they see a world that needs fixing.… Read the rest ““Dean of Big Data” Bill Schmarzo: “smart” takes a community :: Cash-strapped cities get help from volunteer coders (Reposted and updated)”

Filed Under: city tech Tagged With: Bill Schmarzo, Cities, civic tech, collaboration, OpenTransit, republished, smart cities Leave a Comment

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