The California Department of Human Resources and the California Department of Technology have approved a learning management system from Blackboard and Taborda for use by government agencies statewide for Enterprise Human Resources (EntHR).
When it comes to curating news and feature stories for our readers, many are culled; few are chosen. Here are a few items that may not have made it onto your radar recently.
The San Francisco Mayor's Office of Civic Innovation is seeking two Innovation Fellows to join city government for one year to help government "become more collaborative, inventive and responsive" to residents. Mid-career professionals with a year or two of innovation experience are invited to apply.
The University of California at Santa Barbara is working to improve farming, using technology. Computer science professors have begun using data analytics and cloud computing to solve some of agriculture's challenges.
In the 16th Annual Digital Counties Survey, a national ranking conducted by the Center for Digital Government, some California counties come out shining — and two in particular, Sonoma and Nevada counties, were rated the tops in their population categories. Today, we take a closer look at some of the numbers behind the success stories.
Raelyn Sweebe has joined Visionary Integration Professionals as proposal manager, working in the Folsom office of the California-based firm. She held a similar position with Trinity Technology Group for almost seven years.
Emergencies like fires and floods are often confusing times. They usually occur in areas that do not have Internet access or digital capabilities. Because of that, records of who is where and what equipment is in use are pertinent, and kept on paper.
Van Williams is the new vice chancellor of information technology at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He began his position on July 2, replacing retiring VC Mary Doyle.
Los Angeles County has put out a Request for Information for vendors on a data analytics program to identify fraud in workers’ compensation and liability claims processes and monitor the county’s risk management programs.
California counties fared well across categories in the prestigious Digital Counties Survey, with Sonoma and Nevada counties taking first-place honors and others placing in the top 10.
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Techwire's staff writes daily, but on our way to finding areas of interest for you to read about, we read a lot of content. Here are some of the pieces we thought you would find interesting.
The role of data gatekeeper, chief data officer (CDO), has been gaining steam in the public sector over the last few years. Handfuls of states, cities and counties are bringing on their own chiefs to help agencies position themselves to utilize data in service of their constituents. Here are a few of the key CDOs in California.
It should come as no surprise that California has more electric/hybrid vehicles, as a percentage of all vehicles on the road statewide, than any other state. The state — which has the highest average gas price in the nation — offers rebates and other credits for owners of hybrid or electric vehicles.
The city of Los Angeles has won recognition in the "Dream Big" category of Amazon Web Services' City on a Cloud competition for an earthquake early warning system.
The San Francisco-based City Innovate is recruiting for a program director for its Startup in Residence (STiR) program — someone who will be based in San Francisco and who can help grow the program nationally and internationally to 100 cities in the next five years.
The Municipal Information Systems Association of California has opened its Excellence in IT Practices Awards Programs for submissions. The program awards IT agencies at the county level at each conference.
A dozen members of the Municipal Information Systems Association of California have won their credentials as Certified Government Chief Information Officers.
Rebecca Friedman of e.Republic has been named Media Services Director for Los Angeles County's Internal Services Department. She has been National Conference Director for e.Republic in the Techwire and Government Technology divisions, producing events in California and 11 other states during almost five years with the company.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, reportedly considering a presidential run in 2020, is the guest in a new podcast hosted by Cathilea Robinett, president of e.Republic. This episode of "In the Arena" is part of a new series of Governing magazine podcasts about public leadership.
Here are a few links to some interesting articles and features we've come across recently as we hunt and gather news of interest to the gov tech community.
The state's Child Welfare Digital Services project has completed its second release of tools that are a key part its CWS-CARES system, which is designed to replace the legacy system.
