The state's five cities that spend more than any others are, in descending order: San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose and Long Beach. Together, California's cities spend about $1.5 billion on IT every year.
The effort, dubbed “Girls Go CyberStart,” is designed to encourage young women from ninth to 12th grades to pursue careers in the growing (and male-dominated) field of cybersecurity. It’s being led by state Chief Information Officer Amy Tong and by Brenda Bridges Cruz, deputy director of the Office of Professional Development within CDT.
Representatives from business, education, government and nonprofits will discuss how natural disasters may strain the state's communications grid in the future and what the state will need in terms of network resiliency, reliability, affordability and consumer protection.
Techwire is showcasing the most recent California winners of The Center for Digital Government’s annual Digital Cities Survey, culled from its complete national survey.
Techwire is showcasing the most recent California winners of the Center for Digital Government’s annual Digital Cities Survey, culled from its complete national survey.
Techwire is showcasing the most recent California winners of The Center for Digital Government’s annual Digital Cities Survey, culled from its complete national survey.
She has 25 years’ sales experience in IT security, with a background that includes strategic, enterprise and State, Local and Education (SLED) vertical markets.
The position includes a large degree of oversight, including applications, data center, security, enterprise portfolio management and enterprise architecture.
In all, 11 students from nine departments in state government graduated: Department of Child Support Services, Correctional Health Care Services, Air Resources Board, Department of Industrial Relations, Department of Transportation, Department of Corrections, Franchise Tax Board, Office of Legislative Data, and Department of Veterans Affairs.
California’s cable industry spends about $2 billion annually to upgrade and build out high-speed networks using private investment dollars. But while 5G technology points to a future with faster Internet, many rural parts of the state lack the fiber infrastructure the technology requires.
The CIO Academy Awards Program recognizes individuals in California government organizations for their outstanding contributions, best practices and works of distinction.
The position calls for expertise in C# programming for .NET with Visual Studio; experience in overseeing the design, development, and implementation of software and hardware solutions, systems or products; and an ability to analyze requirements and assess their feasibility.
The new features — organizational charts for key state agencies, and a searchable database devoted to tech-related lobbying — are designed to give Insiders additional insight into state IT’s players, procurement and policy.
The survey honors cities in five population classifications: 500,000 or more; 250,000 to 499,999; 125,000 to 249,999; 75,000 to 124,999; and fewer than 75,000. Within those categories, nine California cities placed in the top 10.
The IT Manager I has direct oversight of technical staff as well as various contract staff and represents the department in dealings with state control agencies.
Being a project manager and a product champion are part of the role the city is seeking to fill for multiple openings. Successful candidates will “analyze trends, customer requirements, input from a diverse set of stakeholders, and process re-engineering/innovation opportunities to establish product vision and strategy.”
The forum will be recorded for those unable to attend. To register to attend or to participate in a webinar, CDT has an online registration link. There’s also an email link where questions may be submitted beforehand and addressed during the forum.
The new senior systems engineer turned his hobby into a career almost 25 years ago in California, and he has specialized in security sales and engineering in the public and private sectors.
Among the job duties are the following: Set goals and expectations and exercise sound judgment in developing and managing enterprise information technology projects and systems; work through managers and staff to identify and leverage branch knowledge resources; and develop work breakdown structures and resource assignments to meet ongoing operations and maintenance and project needs.
The city initiated its partnership with Verizon in 2017. In addition to free Wi-Fi in parks, it facilitates the deployment of 5G for homes and businesses, and provides tools to better manage traffic and make streets safer for cyclists, pedestrians and drivers.
The Sacramento Urban Technology Lab's grant program will focus on building out the Internet of Things and cybersecurity, mobility and health IT, and life sciences verticals in the SUTL framework.
For obvious reasons, cybersecurity professionals are reluctant to speak too much about their methods and techniques. It's a field that, by necessity, is cloaked in secrecy. So when the state government gets a chance to recognize those professionals' accomplishments, we'll take that opportunity to shine a spotlight on them as well.
Hundreds of IT professionals from the public and private sectors converged in Sacramento this week for the California Digital Government Summit, a two-day conference convened by Government Technology magazine, a sister publication to Techwire. Chief information officers, sales executives, technologists and a full roster of others attended breakout sessions, networked, made deals and renewed acquaintances.
For the 17th year, the Center for Digital Government has recognized the premier leaders in government technology with the "Best of California" awards. The recognition came during this week's California Digital Government Summit in Sacramento.
Government IT projects from across the greater Los Angeles area were recognized this week at the LA Digital Government Summit, a program in which peers nominate and choose the most outstanding projects.
He has more than 32 years' experience in the technology sector, and he'll be handling healthcare, education and government for cities and counties in Northern California.
