FI$Cal's executive partner says California's financial management and accounting system is "incredibly large and complex system and there's not another one like it anywhere in the public sector or the private sector."
California's fledgling regulatory body for the medical marijuana industry is beginning to grapple with the funding that will be necessary to start up the new entity.
The Department of Consumer Affairs is finding it difficult to recruit for nearly three dozen IT jobs approved one year ago to augment maintenance and operation of its online licensing system for boards and bureaus.
A proposal would give budget authority to spend nearly $1.6 million to fund 11 permanent staff positions in order to do regular security compliance audits for state agencies and departments.
The California Highway Patrol anticipates the Department of Technology will release the bid specifications for its Body Worn Camera pilot project in early May.
Teri Takai, who served as state CIO and secretary of the California Technology Agency from 2007-2010, has been named a senior adviser at the Center for Digital Government, a national research and advisory institute on IT policies and best practices in state and local government.
A reorganization at the Department of Technology along with a new job posting at the Governor's Office are indicators the state could hire a new position to oversee a range of data-focused projects.
Educational institutions across California will be able to access the state government's technology services portfolio under a newly formed partnership.
California is mulling the idea of convening a "Vendor Advisory Council" that would contribute input to the contractor evaluation system and other key issues.
The delay is directly tied to the influx of interested vendors that are new to state government IT procurements, Office of Systems Integration director John Boule said.
The Controlled Substance Utilization Review and Evaluation System (CURES) 2.0 system rolled out in January after a soft launch last summer. The state says it underestimated how much user support is necessary to move physicians and other medical professionals onto the modernized platform.
Legislation that would push California to finish the state's cybersecurity emergency response plan passed the Assembly Committee on Privacy and Consumer Protection by a 11-0 vote on Tuesday.
The California Department of Technology would be empowered to create and adjust job classifications and salary ranges for positions in the department, under proposed legislation from Assemblymember Scott Wilk, R-Santa Clarita. The responsibility currently rests in the state's Department of Human Resources.
Tom Andriola, vice president and and CIO for the president's office, said the university system needs to develop from the ground up a portfolio of shared services that can be used at multiple locations.
The original EDR project, which has been held up as an example of a state government IT project done well, went live in mid-2011. It was launched to modernize the tax collection system to improve compliance, enhance tax return automation and go after billions of dollars in otherwise uncollected money.
In testimony to a legislative budget subcommittee on Tuesday, State Controller Betty T. Yee said the Controller's Office is working with the California Department of Technology and the Government Operations Agency to identify a path forward for the project.
The California Department of Motor Vehicles is building an in-house Security Operations Center (SOC) to detect and thwart cyberattacks directed to its network and information systems, an acknowledgment that DMV's data is a prime target for hackers.
The California Department of Motor Vehicles is interested in seeing if data analytics software could detect buyers and sellers who collude to underreport the sale price of vehicles in order to pay a smaller tax bill.
On Friday, the State Water Resources Control Board hosted a standing-room-only "data fair" at CalEPA headquarters in Sacramento where experts discussed how to move forward with data sharing, both internally and with the public.
Amy Tong, deputy director of the Office of Systems Integration and agency information officer of the California Health and Human Services Agency, will serve as acting state CIO and director of the Department of Technology.
Carlos Ramos, state of California CIO and director of the Department of Technology, will step down at the end of March, according to an announcement to state staff on Wednesday.
California lawmakers on Tuesday pressed for details about how the auto industry is safeguarding data and consumer privacy as cars increasingly become “computers on wheels.”
California’s third-annual Open DataFest event convened about 200 experts on Monday at the Sacramento Convention Center for wide-ranging discussion about how to advance open data and data-driven decisionmaking within state and local government health programs.
The state of California has applied for the federal government's cybersecurity certification for cloud computing as it continues to build out the state's private cloud, state CIO Carlos Ramos told a legislative oversight panel last week.
After four months on the job, David Wanjiru is getting to know the California State Library’s unique mission within state government, and he’s thinking about the present and future of technology as the library’s CIO.
The Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) earlier this year moved a second wave of boards and bureaus — eight more in all — onto the BreEZe IT system for applicant tracking, licensing, renewals, enforcement and other functions. Whether the last 19 boards and bureaus will move onto BreEZe appears to be up in the air, according to an Office of Senate Research report.
