As a regulatory entity, the California Department of Technology is always looking for new ways to recruit and train talent. State CIO Amy Tong has said the competition for IT staff between the public and private sectors bodes well for the level of talent.
Los Angeles County has been building systems that harness data to integrate records and service use of residents into one centralized and mobile app. The goal is to make information available countywide, allowing all departments to deliver better services.
The California Department of Technology recently upgraded its employee training facilities at the Office of Professional Development. The office needed technology that could interface with any equipment, especially because vendors who offer training to state employees often bring equipment or data to the classes on their own hardware.
Vendors can provide training on products or skill sets when the state does not have the capacity to build a curriculum.
Governments at all levels — state, county and city — are looking to automate citizen services, with many departments looking to artificial intelligence or natural-language responses.
California's state leadership has been working across departments and with vendors to build workforce development programs to fill vacancies and improve skills in employees already working for the state. The state has just under 11,500 IT employees, but there is still competition among departments and with the private sector to recruit talent.
Los Angeles County's Internal Services Department, which manages the county's operations, data center, network and shared services, has a wish list to make customer engagement better, both internally and externally. The department wants to replace the interactive voice response system it uses now.
California's Department of Technology wants to modernize the state's security posture. Peter Liebert, state chief information security officer, lays out the plans to do so.
The midterm elections are just under a month away and Los Angeles County's Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk Dean Logan wants to develop an open source system that can scale to other jurisdictions.
Graphic: The California Department of Transportation spent about $62.5 million for IT goods, services and telecoms during the 2016-17 and 2017-18 fiscal years.
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife is looking for ways to use technology to negate the damage done by nutria, an invasive species that's chewing its way through California. One solution is using cameras and GIS technology to count how many of the rodents are in an area.
Los Angeles County’s CEO has unveiled an RFI containing a host of significant technological opportunities as part of a major Homeless Initiative designed to help the estimated 52,000 homeless people in the county of 10 million.
Gov. Jerry Brown has until midnight Sunday to sign all legislation he wants to approve. With his signature, these technology-related bills would become law.
California's Broadband Council held its first meeting aimed at allowing stakeholders to identify key communications corridors across the state. This will roll into the plan to develop the state's broadband infrastructure, delivering services to 98 percent of households, which is one of the council's legislative goals.
Jason Piccione, CIO for the California Department of Consumer Affairs, oversees just under 40 boards and commissions that license and regulate consumer service providers, and his department is moving toward containerization.
The Financial Information System for California's open-data site is open for stakeholder feedback. One of the goals is to improve the state's government budget transparency.
Los Angeles County's Human Resources Department is working to automate as many systems as possible — the hiring process, the complaint process and benefits explanations — and is planning to go live with a key component within months.
California spent $2.65 billion on IT in fiscal year 2016-17 and $7.6 billion in FY 2017-18. Here we compare the amounts spent and the top five suppliers for the two years.
Digital sovereignty and empowering citizens to access government on their terms were themes in the Digital Government discussion with Deputy State CIO Chris Cruz; Scott Gregory, deputy director of the Office of Digital Innovation; and Tim Melton, OpenGov's VP of Sales for State.
