Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill today to create a California earthquake early warning system, which will require that the Office of Emergency Services (OES) develop a system to warn Californians before dangerous shaking occurs.
On Thursday, the CPUC voted 5-0 to become the first state agency in the nation to give the go-ahead for online-enabled companies to operate legally with a state permit as a Transportation Network Company (TNC), a new category of charter party passenger carriers.
This week, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson gave a preview of forthcoming recommendations by his Education Technology Task Force which includes the need for a cabinet-level position to oversee technology investments at the California Department of Education (CDE).
As reported in last week’s Roundup, the state of California has taken steps to improve the way major IT projects are approved. On Wednesday, the Department of Technology issued policy outlining the first stage of a new Project Approval Lifecycle.
The Sacramento County’s Assessor’s Office has received an award for its recently redesigned website, Sacramento County Assessor Kathleen Kelleher announced on Friday.
California’s peace officers will soon have another crime-fighting tool to reach for, a smartphone. On Monday, Attorney General Kamala D. Harris, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr launched the JusticeMobile app from the California Department of Justice (DOJ).
The California State Legislature is currently considering several pieces of technology-related legislation. Several bills are currently being held or suspended in their respective committees, but others have been sent to the governor for signature as of our last update. Here are some of the bills that we are tracking.
The state of California is launching a new effort to overhaul the way major IT projects are designed, approved and implemented, Department of Technology Director Carlos Ramos said in an interview with Techwire’s Christina Gagnier.
California was awarded third place in the State Portal category for e.Republic’s Center for Digital Government 2013 Best of the Web awards, the Center for Digital Government announced today. California departments and agencies also received Digital Government Achievement Awards (DGAA).
A Senate bill that would allow Californians to apply for driver’s licenses embedded with radio-frequency identification chips, or RFIDs, last week failed to pass the Assembly Appropriations Committee.
The State Board of Equalization (BOE) has redesigned its website www.boe.ca.gov in order to better help its customers complete their tasks, according to a BOE press release.
After months of working to qualify for a new leveraged contract for IT services, the technology industry in California is increasingly frustrated with the Department of General Services (DGS) which earlier this month canceled the Request for Proposals (RFP) for their IT Services Master Service Agreement (IT MSA).
In a Senate Oversight hearing last week on the canceled 21st Century Project, Department of Technology (CalTech) Director Carlos Ramos said the state is considering whether his department needs a statewide operation to help manage major IT projects, like the Office of Systems Integration (OSI) does for health and human services related IT projects. Scheduled to present at the hearing before time ran out, the Task Force on Reengineering IT Procurement for Success issued 21 recommendations on Thursday including one to create an OSI-type program within CalTech.
In the wake of the canceled 21st Century Project, the California Department of Technology is developing a Consulting and Planning Division to send out a "strike team" to help state departments in need of help with their IT projects. In a Senate Oversight Hearing concerning the 21st Century Project, Department of Technology Director Carlos Ramos said the new team would focus on both oversight and coaching.
Comcast and California elected officials hosted the Comcast Youth Tech Summit and Expo on Thursday at the Sacramento Convention Center. The event included panel discussions answering questions from youth in the audience on several different topics, including cyberbullying and starting a technology-related career.
The California Secretary of State’s online voter registration app RegisterToVote.ca.gov has been selected by the Center for Digital Government as Best Application Serving the Public.
The California Emerging Technology Fund (CETF) is investing $300,000 with the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) and non-profit organizations to develop a model to connect Los Angeles public housing residents to WiFi, provide bilingual digital literacy training and offer low-cost computers to residents, according to a press release.
Christie Borchin is leaving her position as Agency CIO for the California Department of Veterans Affairs (CalVet) and will temporarily head up the Department of Technology’s Office of Professional Development (OPD) starting on Aug. 7.
The California High Speed Rail Authority (HSR) will be partnering with suppliers of cloud services for a construction package that will start up in about a month, according to CIO Jeff Vargas.
Sue Johnsrud, 55, who has served as Governor Brown’s director of operations since the beginning of his current term, is moving to a new position in charge of the Financial Information System for California (FI$Cal) project, gubernatorial spokesman Evan Westrup confirmed today. Johnsrud officially started in her new position as Executive Partner yesterday.
