The California Health and Human Services Agency is recruiting for two significant IT positions, one with the Department of Health Care Services and the other with the Office of Systems Integration.
The Chief Information Officer for the California Secretary of State's Office, Rita Gass, will be the speaker next month at Techwire's Member Briefing in Sacramento.
Newport Beach has six ongoing "smart city" programs and is looking to create more. Most of the solutions that are underway have been created by the city's IT team and cost very little, outside of labor.
Legislation that would require a modernization effort at every state department in California is sitting in the Senate Appropriations Committee's Suspense File.
Friday is the deadline to apply for the next session of the California Department of Technology’s Project Management Leadership Academy. The session runs from Oct. 4 to Dec. 20.
CGI has been awarded a $281 million contract with the state of California for maintenance and operation of the Case Management Information and Payrolling System, the central piece of technology supporting the In-Home Supportive Services program.
The city of Glendale has named longtime administrator and manager Jason Bradford as the city’s Chief Information Officer, a position he has held in interim status since October.
Los Angeles County government is holding a free workshop Thursday for small businesses that want to compete for local, state and federal government contracts.
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).
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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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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.
