The California Health and Human Services Agency Office of Systems Integration closed its most recent Child Welfare Digital Services request for offer on Thursday.
The city of Riverside’s CIO, Lea Deesing, serves as the executive director of SmartRiverside as well. Deesing answered questions for Techwire about the "City of Arts and Innovation."
Transparent and open data is a strategic initiative for the state of California. The Department of Conservation, which has begun digitizing its data, believes that will lead the way to more transparency and better customer service.
California's Office of Emergency Services has begun supporting a holistic approach to cybersecurity with the creation of the cybersecurity integration center.
Securing IT infrastructure is essential at every level of government. At the California Technology Forum on Tuesday, several representatives of California residents discussed security strategies.
Fi$Cal, California’s fully integrated budgeting, accounting and procurement system, has both on-premises and virtual systems to serve the 15,000 people who will ultimately use the system.
The Department of Public Health is seeking proposals from vendors for consumer research and evaluation. This will include survey design and information management.
San Diego County continues to roll its technology stacks from its previous master agreement contract to the new one, finalized in November. The first stack moved over was the service desk. More than 450 business applications will be moved over to a new data center in Tulsa, Okla.
The FirstNet effort in California is underway. Over the next few months Gov. Jerry Brown will decide whether the state will opt in to the plan presented by ATT at the federal level of FirstNet or offer up a different plan.
Riverside’s new CIO, Dave Rogers, stepped into the position in June as the previous CIO, Steve Reneker, moved over to supervise the county’s extensive broadband project. Previously, Rogers was the county’s CTO after his time at Microsoft.
The takeaways are:
There are 23 CSU campuses, and we are the largest four-year public sector in the United States. The campuses themselves, they have their own technology shops there. Here at the Chancellor’s Office, I deliver a number of centrally delivered technology services on behalf of the campuses. Here, centrally, we run the centralized ERP system ... we’re running finance, HR and the student system. We also centrally procure and install all the networking equipment and security hardware."
The California Broadband Council met Wednesday to discuss progress toward making broadband, with its "opportunities and services to constituents," available to 98 percent of Californians, state CIO Amy Tong said while opening the meeting. Several participating departments presented.
Volkswagen’s Electrify America plans for its Cycle 1 Zero Emissions Investment into Sacramento were approved by the California Air Resources Board. Now the company is choosing sites in low-income communities and along highways for more than 100 fast-charging sites and 400 sites over the life of the investment plan. A provider for ZEV car shares and charging stations will be selected this year.
California’s Department of Toxic Substances Control will roll out its TAP application from ThinkSmart next week as a “way to move into the 21st century” and digitize its human resources work processes, Kham Xiong, chief of applications development for the department told Techwire.
