June 21, 2017
We are looking for two Fellows to support our mission to help government become more collaborative, inventive, and responsive to San Franciscans. Fellows will work with changemakers and innovators in City Departments to support our team’s work on Mayor Lee’s priority to improve the safety, cleanliness, and livability of San Francisco. Fellowship is targeted to start September 13, 2017.
December 15, 2015
Calling all civic technologists and change makers! The Mayor’s Office of Civic Innovation (MOCI) is opening a call for two new Mayor’s Innovation Fellows to join us for a one-year fellowship embedded in City government.
July 23, 2015
The Asian Art Museum seeks to provide an even deeper and more enjoyable visitor experience through prototyping exhibition elements and inviting visitor feedback as part of our exhibition interpretation planning and design process.
July 13, 2015
The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission is the municipal water, power and sewer services provider for the City and County of San Francisco. We generate and deliver power to hundreds of municipal buildings in San Francisco, including libraries, schools, fire stations, recreation centers, and office buildings. While this power is 100% greenhouse gas-free, the City’s large facility inventory brings with it a responsibility to use this energy as efficiently as possible. San Francisco has invested for many years in energy efficiency and renewable energy projects in these public buildings, and the City is saving over $5 million each year in energy costs as a result.
June 29, 2015
Car sharing is a simple idea that’s already helping San Francisco achieve environmental and transportation system goals as it provides residents and businesses a way to reduce their parking headaches and transportation expenses while maintaining access to “just enough car” for errands and other trips. Research has repeatedly shown that every shared vehicle available to users results in private cars being taken off the road, with conservative estimates of from 7 to 15 vehicles taken off the streets for every shared vehicle.
April 24, 2015
On January 31, 2014, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) asked its customers to voluntarily curtail water consumption by 10%. To facilitate achieving this goal, the SFPUC Communications Division developed a multi-lingual and edgy public education campaign that successfully promoted water conservation through behavioral changes and plumbing upgrades for residents and businesses.
March 24, 2015
The Mayor’s Innovation Fellowship in the Mayor’s Office of Civic Innovation (MOCI) is a novel one-year program that looks to utilize entrepreneurial minds from all sectors to help San Francisco tackle challenging civic issues and be more accountable, accessible and responsive to residents. Meet our 2015 Fellows!
July 11, 2014
The Mayor’s Office of Civic Innovation (MOCI) is opening a call for two new Mayor’s Innovation Fellows. MOCI champions new ideas and approaches that make our City government more accountable, accessible and responsive to the residents of San Francisco. This novel one-year program looks to utilize entrepreneurial minds from all sectors to help San Francisco tackle challenging civic issues, including open data standards for social services, entrepreneurship in residence, workforce innovation, and much more.
November 20, 2013
In October, we announced the opening of applications for our firstEntrepreneurship-in-Residence program. We received hundreds of applications from an impressive group of world-class startups. After reviewing the teams and applications, we were able to narrow them down to 11 semi-finalists.
October 12, 2013
A new platform for civic innovation has arrived. The City and County of San Francisco is proud to announce that it will be hosting a feature event — called a “Datapalooza” — on October 17th to highlight local innovators that are transforming open data into valuable new products and services. This celebratory showcase will include ten entrepreneurs that answered a call-to-action from the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy, the California Governor’s Office of Business & Economic Development, and the San Francisco Office of Civic Innovation.
September 06, 2013
Mayor Edwin M. Lee, in collaboration with the White House and other strategic partners, today announced San Francisco’s Entrepreneurship-in-Residence (EIR) program. “We need the top entrepreneurs to work with us on opportunities that are actual pain points and needs of government. San Francisco’s EIR program advances our role and vision as the Innovation Capital of the World,” said Mayor Ed Lee.
Past Projects
We support Mayoral priorities by introducing new approaches, resources, and technologies to City departments.
Currently, our team is focused on supporting the Mayor’s Safe and Clean Neighborhoods Promise to enhance Quality of Life for San Franciscans; expanding the City’s capacity through partnerships, and creating a more digitally inclusive and connected City.
In the past, our office has worked on initiatives including building an Affordable Housing Portal, creating a Digital Services Strategy, and making San Francisco's laws easier to navigate.
Explore some of our past projects:
The Living Innovation Zones (LIZ) project aimed to enhance the public realm with innovation, simplify the permitting process for projects in public space, and support innovators by providing real-world demonstration opportunities.
LIZ are temporary installations on Market Street, the City’s cultural, civic and economic spine. The program is structured to seed cross-disciplinary collaborations that result in place-based experiences. LIZs can serve as opportunities for testing new ideas, projects, and technologies. They are intended as enhancements to the public realm, encouraging people to connect with each other and their city. For more information, visit the Living Innovation Zones website.
MOCI partners in this project include: Planning Department, Department of Public Works, San Francisco Arts Commission, Exploratorium, Yerba Buena Community Benefit District, and Gehl Architects.
In 2015, the Mayor’s Office of Civic Innovation, the Office of Economic and Workforce Development, and SFMade engaged in a one-year public-private partnership to define the advanced manufacturing ecosystem in the city and to develop strategies to support it. Advanced manufacturing is manufacturing that uses automation, sensing, and other digital technologies to increase efficiency and precision.
A 24-person task force—the Advanced Manufacturing Action Team—made up of industry leaders and experts from the public sector, guided the project. Released on Manufacturing Day, October 7th 2016, Strengthening the Advanced Manufacturing Sector in San Francisco represents the culmination of this project. The report presents a set of concrete strategies and tools to expand and support the Strengthening the Advanced Manufacturing Sector in San FranciscoA 24-person task force, the Advanced Manufacturing Action Team, made up of industry leaders and experts from the public sector, guided the project. Released on Manufacturing Day, October 7th, 2016, local advanced manufacturing ecosystem and cultivate a new workforce opportunity in this sector.
Open Law makes the City’s laws easier to navigate, understand, and build applications from. Following on our landmark Open Data Policy, the laws of San Francisco are released in technologist-friendly formats that can power new applications that enhance understanding, improve access and lead to new insights about the law. Open Law is the first, necessary step to making these kinds of applications. We hope you join us and use the resources curated here to engage in the growing Open Law community.
MOCI partners in this initiative Office of the City Attorney, Board of Supervisors, OpenGov Foundation, American Legal Publishing Corporation, and GitHub.include:
