The California Department of Technology is accepting reservations for its spring CDT Vendor/Partner Forum, where companies and consultants can find out the best ways to do business with the state.
California Secretary of State Alex Padilla released a high school and youth initiative website to make information and resources more available. The aim of the site is to get young voters more involved.
In culling through hundreds of news stories every week, Techwire comes across some interesting reads that don't quite fit our template for a full story, but which might be of interest to our readers. Here are a few links that we thought were worth a click.
Gov. Jerry Brown has named a new deputy director of legislative and intergovernmental affairs for GO-Biz, the state's business and economic development office.
Heather Geyer, a 17-year veteran of operations and technology, has joined the 24/7 service desk at Child Welfare Services — California Automated Response and Engagement System, a project of California Health and Human Services’ Office of Systems Integration.
The California Department of Transportation is soliciting comments from the public — and from private industry — on what will be included in the next 20-year plan to improve business and community freight connections across the state.
The state's Child Welfare Digital Services continues its training and refinement processes, with the most recent being a multi-team sprint review held last week and the posting of a podcast with an implementation manager for the project.
The state has issued a Pre-Solicitation Request for Proposal for System Development, Maintenance and Operations services for a state health insurance program.
The “product owner” of the state Child Welfare Digital Services (CWDS) project known as CALS was interviewed in a podcast recently to explain the project and detail how it’s designed to improve children’s welfare in California.
The airport will soon install a form of “dynamic glazing” that takes into account numerous factors like sunlight, temperature, time and other analytics to determine the perfect level of tint to transition thousands of square feet of windows looking out onto the tarmac.
Of the 25 Doers, Dreamers and Drivers recognized by Government Technology magazine this year, three are from California. Their names are probably familiar to Techwire readers.
The state Department of Health Care Services is recruiting for a new Chief Technology Officer for the Enterprise Innovation Technology Services Division.
User experience design, or UX, is becoming a big part of how apps and software are built, especially with more public sector programs relying on agile development. Involving users in the design of a regularly used software before it is fully developed can avoid problems later on. But what exactly does it entail?
A sales and management veteran from Oracle Corp. has been named deputy director of broadband and digital literacy for the California Department of Technology (CDT).
Craig Russell is joining Nutanix as the account executive for state government departments and agencies, and local government and education customers in Northern and Central California.
The California Independent System Operator, the entity that oversees the state’s wholesale energy transmission grid, is giving IT developers a place to experiment — and some tools and a little guidance to go with it.
California Secretary of State Alex Padilla's office is working with a social media network to encourage Californians to vote and to make it easier to do so. It's the first time the network has partnered with a secretary of state's office.
Two months ago, Accela launched a “Center of Expertise” to help the public sector work better. In California, that means, among other things, helping the state regulate cannabis sales and short-term residential rentals. Now Accela is launching “out-of-the-box” software products for those two industries.
Longtime gov tech sales executive Sherri Conover has joined ForgeRock as major account executive for State, Local and Education (SLED) covering the West. Conover brings more than 25 years' experience in government sales and sales management experience.
During last week's California CIO Academy, our team conducted brief video interviews with IT leaders in state government. Today's interview features Amar Hariharan, a project manager with the California Department of Technology.
