After five years on the job, San Francisco’s first Chief Data Officer Joy Bonaguro has decided to move on. Taking over as the new CDO is data services manager Jason Lally, a colleague of Bonaguro.
Bonaguro’s departure was reported by Government Technology:
The work done in San Francisco during the past half of a decade ranges from open data efforts — including standardizing open data, implementing a process for inventorying, monitoring open data and more — to becoming one of nine cities this past year to be certified for its open data use through Bloomberg’s What Works Cities initiative.
Other significant work under Bonaguro’s leadership included a partnership with the controller’s office that yielded a data academy that trained more than 1,000 internal staff members; a DataScienceSF intervention program that sees civic data scientists helping departments function more efficiently with information; and shaping the current DataSF team that will continue the work and culture that she helped to establish.
