The state Child Welfare Digital Services (CWDS) project has formed a team specifically focusing on human-centered research and design services for all digital endeavors across the project, which is developing software to replace the child welfare legacy system.
During last week's two-day California CIO Academy, held in Sacramento under the auspices of Techwire sister publication Government Technology, our team conducted brief video interviews with IT leaders in state government. The interviews were led by Steve Towns, e.Republic's deputy chief content officer.
Nominations are being accepted for Government Technology and AT&T's nationwide platform for special districts, a regional and national awards program that recognizes IT innovation and leadership.
Some senior-level IT positions are open in the public sector, and particularly noteworthy are one with the state, two with the California State University system and two with the city of Sacramento:
Two state senators and an Assembly member have been singled out for their leadership and advocacy on Internet-related issues in the state Legislature by the Internet Association.
The state Child Welfare Digital Services project's Intake Digital Services last week launched Snapshot 1.0, the first release of CWS-CARES functionality, which is now up and running and accessible by 22 county social workers.
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Sacramento Chief Information Officer Maria MacGunigal and Chief Innovation Officer Louis Stewart will discuss how the city is embedding innovation in the city and how the region is positioning itself as an innovation hub during a webinar beginning at 10 a.m. Wednesday.
The California State Library is using technology — and a newly redesigned website — to help users look things up. The work took months and was a collaboration between the State Library’s Web design team and computer science students.
The state's power grid overseer, the California Independent System Operator, has launched a Web page that tracks greenhouse gas emissions from resources used to generate electricity for about 30 million consumers.
In preparation for the release of the proposed state budget, Techwire asked several agencies for information on what they saw happening to IT spending in the 2018-19 fiscal year.
Techwire has been querying IT leaders in government and the private sector about what trends they see in government technology in 2018. Today, the last installation in the series appears, featuring two figures from industry.
Overseeing IT for the Human Resources Department of the nation's most populous county is no small task. CIO and Assistant Director Murtaza Masood, whose agency handles all things tech for more than 100,000 employees, looks ahead to 2018 and beyond, and sees data analytics, predictive modeling and digital workspaces as the essential tools.
Techwire has been querying IT leaders in government and the private sector about what trends they see in government technology in 2018. Today, three of those figures weigh in.
Techwire offers an extended "In Case You Missed It" today — a wrapup of pivotal gov tech stories from 2017 that will have implications into 2018 and beyond, including long-term projects that will bring many procurements.
California Secretary of State Alex Padilla has published a short video recapping the digital initiatives his office undertook in 2017, a pivotal year for technology related to cannabis legalization and other businesses in the state.
Internet policy, broadband expansion and IT talent recruitment and retention were among the key issues in which California's legislators performed fairly well in 2017, according to the co-chairman of the state's Tech Caucus. Lawmakers in 2017 created new laws to bring broadband to rural areas, improve accessibility to government websites and move public record storage to the cloud.
Two IT veterans whose experience includes agile development have joined the state's Child Welfare Digital Services project as product management advisers.
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The new president of MISAC taps the CIO of Windsor to head the entity's security committee — part of his plan to expand MISAC's leadership role in government information sharing.
