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San Francisco appoints first chief data officer

The city of San Francisco has wooed a former IT official from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to be its first chief data officer, according to a recent exchange on Twitter.

The March 3 conversation between Govfresh founder Luke Fretwell and San Francisco spokesman Marc Touitou revealed that Joy Bonaguro had been on the job for a week.

Bonaguro managed IT policy at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory where she worked with the National Lab CIO Council and the Department of Energy Information Management Advisory Group to help develop the Department of Energy’s information policy, according to her profile on LinkedIn.

In a Department of Energy profile, Bonaguro said that focusing on mathematics and technology can "change the world."

She added that her experience working at the Greater New Orleans Community Data Center, where she helped make data available online after Hurricane Katrina, showed her that "technology can either support good policy and decision-making or actually derail it."

Bonaguro earned a Masters degree focusing on IT policy from UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy.

San Francisco proposed legislation to create the chief data officer position in March 2013 and officially opened the position in September.