The Child Welfare System — New System (CWS-NS), one of California’s largest IT modernization efforts, will be divided into multiple bid opportunities with the intent of making the project less risky and more agile, officials announced Thursday.
California's technology economy could be one determining factor among several, according to the state's nonpartisan fiscal analyst, that ultimately decides whether the state continues to accrue reserves or instead falls back into deficit.
The new fee structure, called the MTS surcharge, was spurred by state legislation (AB 1717) signed into law in fall 2014 that changed how surcharges for prepaid mobile telephone services are collected and remitted. The surcharge helps fund 911 emergency and other telecom services, according to the Board of Equalization (BOE).
Broadband experts from California and across the U.S. converged in Mountain View on Tuesday for a wide-ranging discussion about how to continue building out connectivity in the state's urban and rural areas.
DebtWatch presents data that was previously only available in a spreadsheet kept by the California Debt and Investment Advisory Commission (CDIAC). According to the STO, the data goes back to 1984 and includes 2.8 million fields of data and 52,000 records.
Rogene Sears on Monday began serving as acting CIO for the Department of State Hospitals. For the past five years, Sears has been the department’s chief technology officer.
California state agencies, departments and entities are no longer required to submit IT capital plans (ITCP) annually to the Department of Technology. Instead the state will publish a list of “conceptually approved projects” each quarter as part of its new IT project approval process.
By using private foundation funding, nonprofit MapLight was able to gift to the state of California a tool it developed called Power Search that’s a search engine for state-level campaign contribution data, Alex Padilla said.
The California Bureau of Automotive Repair plans to move the system that processes smog check inspection data into the state data center and release a new maintenance and operation bid opportunity for it in 2017.
An invitation for bid (IFB) the department released on Monday seeks “multiple Vendor Hosted Software Solutions for human resources tools such that customer state departments can select from various manufacturers based on individual needs.”
CalPERS already is using 70 cloud solutions, and in the past six months CIO Liana Bailey-Crimmins says the organization has implemented Office365, ServiceNow, Apptio for IT portfolio management, and a software management tool called Flexcera.
Members of the Assembly Select Committee on the Digital Divide in Rural California heard testimony from a wide array of speakers from the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), the California Emerging Technology Fund, the Department of Technology and state CIO Carlos Ramos, and many other organizations and companies.
BOE is spending about $750,000 a month on the project, said BOE chief deputy director David Gau, as it continues “pre-implementation” activities such as documenting business rules, converting 5,000 reports and forms, and converting more than 1 billion records.
For more than a year, CIOs and IT managers from member participants in the Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG) have been discussing, through its Innovation Task Force, the creation of a Regional Open Data Portal sometime in 2016. SACOG will further explore the concept at its meeting on Thursday.
A BCP is a “is a proposal to change the level of service or funding sources for activities authorized by the Legislature, or to propose new program activities not currently authorized,” according to the department. BCPs sometimes include information about funding proposals for new and existing technology projects.
A new report from the Little Hoover Commission released Thursday suggests the state designate a chief customer officer and follow the lead of the federal government’s digital strategy, among other reforms to improve the public’s trust and confidence in government.
California's regulatory body for horse racing, along with the California Department of Food and Agriculture, are piloting embedded microchips at two Bay Area race tracks to track and identify racehorses.
The California Department of Education’s plan to consolidate and build a single Web-based application for its Standardized Account Code System (SACS) is up in the air despite selection of a vendor for the project earlier this year.
Techwire reported Monday that the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) and system integrator Xerox State Healthcare are discussing how they will move forward on replacement of California’s Medicaid case management system.
The Sacramento City Council is scheduled this evening, Tuesday, Oct. 20, to consider a new city ordinance that would “enable the city to use electronic records, electronic signatures, and digital signatures to the fullest extent allowed by law.”
Xerox, the primary contractor working on the case management system, announced on Oct. 13 it is “probable that it will not fully complete the implementation of the platform” in California.
Stockton replaced its Groupwise email system with the Microsoft Office 365 hosted solution and has moved to Office 2013, CIO Nabil Fares told Techwire.
Bay Area and California tech entrepreneurs and startups now have a permanent location for filing patents, as a new U.S. Patent and Trademark satellite office opened Thursday in a wing at San Jose City Hall.
Assemblymember Evan Low, D-Campbell, co-chair of the new Technology and Innovation Caucus, spoke to Techwire about the goals of the new caucus, how he envisions the tech sector will engage with the group and what type of tech-related issues he expects the caucus will engage on.
The first-of-its-kind caucus, announced on Tuesday, features a group of legislators from the Assembly and Senate who are tech-savvy and several who are from Generation X and millennial generations.
The state’s new Motor Voter law – which will automatically register eligible Californians to vote when they get a driver’s license or ID card – goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2016. But the system likely won’t be ready until months later because the Secretary of State’s Office and the Department of Motor Vehicles must prepare technology needed to exchange data.
Gov. Jerry Brown didn’t sign a bill that would’ve required the DMV to study the feasibility of issuing a “digital” driver’s license stored in a smartphone.
Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday vetoed legislation that would have required California to develop a performance evaluation system for vendors awarded large state IT contracts.
