We founded the coalition about a year and a half ago with about nine cities founding members of the coalition.
And there are two concepts why the whole thing started reflecting in the last 2530 years of technology, we we adopted a lot of technologies, like the internet, social media, without really thinking or learning what will be the consequences.
And as a result, we have a lot of issues cybersecurity today. Right? We have issue with privacy. We have issue with transparency. And the list can, can is going day after day.
So we, if we thought about cybersecurity back in 2000 and if we implemented 1% more as far as the safeguarding the technology, we will then 10 times more better to today compared to what we’ve so the first concept was, if we can think what AI would look like in 2050 and we can take some measures today to make it safer, more secure and more transparent, I think that will make a big difference in the long run.
It just we need to start today. We cannot start 10 years from now, when it’s too late, right? And the second concept is we have hundreds and hundreds of government agencies, and primarily we do the same thing, right?
And if it was challenging for a city of my size, San Jose, yeah, in the middle, in the heart of the capital of the world of Silicon Valley, yeah, and and we struggling with it because it’s new and it’s overwhelming.
I can only imagine smaller cities how they can deal with it, and what kind of resources they’re lacking and funding and things like that.
So when I introduced this concept with couple my CIOs from government about a year and a half two years ago, I was really excited or pleased to see their commitment to join the coalition and to help us start the coalition.
So the coalition started about a year and a half ago. Today, we have like, 700 agencies and over 2000 members. And every month, we’re getting more agencies and more members.
And the really, the advantage of it is the work can be done by a few of us and can be shared by the masses, right?
And last March, I believe, in 2024 we released our first AI policy for government, and as of today, we got adopted by more than 115 agencies.
Well, not only the policy was more matured from day one, because we had so many agencies working on it, yeah, but also saved hundreds of our development policies by just sharing and replicating.
So it’s been really an overwhelming success for us, and we’re really proud to be part of it and to be leading the initiative nationwide. Well, that’s
