The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) is accepting nominations through Tuesday, July 15, for its State Technology Innovator Award.
Ninety vehicles are being purchased by a collective of 10 Bay Area government agencies in what is being billed as the single largest government purchase of the electric vehicles in the nation.
Eighty-six percent of adults in California use the Internet and 75 percent have broadband connectivity at home — figures unchanged from 2013 — according to a phone poll.
Hosted in California Office of Technology Services’ data centers, the virtual infrastructure is designed to provide scalable and rapid provisioning of servers, along with DR, backup and more.
California Gov. Jerry Brown spent considerable time this year forging ties with China — seeking economic partnerships for the state during a weeklong trip there in April, then signing a non-binding climate change pact with the emerging superpower in September.
As the Gmail contract ends, is L.A. done with Google? The original story: Los Angeles stepped way out on a limb in 2009, becoming the biggest city in the nation to move its entire email system — used by 30,000 municipal employees — to Google’s Gmail service. The city’s massive shift to the cloud would become one of the most closely watched IT deployments in local government over the next several years. Los Angeles CTO Randi Levin told Government Technology in 2010 that using Gmail to replace the city’s in-house GroupWise email system would let her eliminate 92 servers and reassign nine employees responsible for maintaining that equipment. In addition, city workers would get more reliable email and a suite of new features.
IT achievements and innovators throughout the state are honored in the annual Best of California awards program. California’s IT community gathered Wednesday, August 21, at the annual GTC West conference in Sacramento to recognize the people and projects that are successfully leading the state into the future.
More than 10,000 people work in information technology positions for the California state government. At any one time, only 130 of them are a CIO — the top managerial IT position within a state agency. Longevity is undeniably one factor for making it into that select group. But some CIOs say a training program sponsored by the state also helped them along.
