Local governments are always looking for ways to better serve residents. From apps that increase civic engagement to software that helps control traffic patterns, "urban tech" seems to be the next wave in this effort. But what does that mean?
Techwire spoke with members of the Tech Caucus as the Legislature's fiscal year draws to a close. These are the bills that state Sen. Ben Allen, a Democrat who represents Silicon Beach and many of the surrounding Southern California communities, told Techwire the caucus is focusing on.
Two weeks ago, Techwire spoke with Assemblymembers who were active in the Tech Caucus. These are the same questions, answered by state Senators who sat down with Techwire as the fiscal deadline approaches for all new bills.
The state of California just opened a cybersecurity branch that is headed by Keith Tresh, the state's previous chief information security officer. Los Angeles’ Department of Water and Power just hired its first CISO. The University of California and the State University System have CISOs.
The Resources Building made news in 2015 when the Department of General Services called it one of the three worst state buildings in the Sacramento region.
Sonoma County is wrapping up its pilot year on five separate projects, based on SmartThink’s TAP. In the five months since the projects started, most are around 90 percent crossed over.
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power named David Alexander its chief information security officer about a month ago. Techwire sat down with Alexander to ask him about his new position.
When people think of cool offices, they often think of tech offices — especially Google, Apple or other tech giants. But they don't have a corner on the market — there are plenty of cool offices in the Sacramento metro area. Techwire was invited to tour some of these facilities, and others sent us photos to compare their offices to others.
Four key California tech cities — San Francisco, Los Angeles, Sacramento and San Jose — are discussing contract opportunities for tech goods and services.
If you're a systems software specialist looking for a good job in your field, you're in luck. More than one-third of California’s unfilled public-sector tech jobs are specialists who are not managers, according to the California Department of Human Resources. If you aren’t a systems software specialist, there are still about 225 unfilled IT jobs with the state. And the number of open positions is only expected to grow as today's IT workforce begins moving toward retiremen
Last weekend's California Cyber Innovation Challenge, a competition hosted by GoBiz and Cal Poly to help create a workforce pipeline from high schools to career paths, shows that the movement has caught fire. CalPoly hosted the event for the 16 high school teams — double the number applicants who attended in 2016, which was the first competition.
Gov. Jerry Brown has directed California Community Colleges Chancellor Eloy Ortiz Oakley to create a fully online-only community college. The memo directing Oakley to create the college included a deadline to submit a plan for it by November. Brown wrote that establishing an online college would make higher education more affordable and accessible to Californians.
In the wake of a state audit report that faulted two agencies' oversight of noncompetitive state contracts, senior leaders of both departments said this week that they agreed with the recommendations and intend to implement them.
Here is another look at California's local government spending. This time, the focus is cities. California is home to a diverse business ecosystem and four of the top-spending cities in the U.S.
In response to voter support of Proposition 64, marijuana legalization, the state of California has begun creating regulations governing the cultivation and sale of cannabis. The Statewide Technology Procurement Division is managing the procurement of a bid for a "track-and-trace" system, the software that will help track and maintain inventory over a crop’s lifetime in the medical and recreational cannabis industry.
