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.
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.
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.
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.
Today's Techwire is the last until after the long Christmas weekend. Publication of the daily newsletter and updates to the website will resume Wednesday. The Techwire staff wishes our readers a happy and safe holiday season.
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.
BART has approved two 20-year purchase agreements for wind and solar energy. The transit district now gets 4 percent of its electricity supply from renewable sources; that should increase to about 90 percent by 2021, when the two new projects begin delivery.
Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business has lost its chief digital officer after a data breach that, he acknowledged, should have been reported and not just quietly patched.
From the start, public-sector tech leaders were on the move in 2017. While some took their services from one city or county to another, others moved up within their agencies or left for private-sector roles where they continue to support government efforts. Here’s a look back at the year in career shifts related to California state and local government tech.
Child Welfare Digital Services offered a demo Monday of its new Snapshot search tool, designed to increase efficiency for staff who work with child-welfare cases.
A Central California city is anticipating spending hundreds of thousands on IT upgrades and improvements for its city manager's office, police department and community center.
Child Welfare Digital Services has announced the name — CWS-CARES — for the new system under development to replace the legacy Child Welfare System (CWS/CMS). The team also unveiled a Project Roadmap of upcoming features, including its first statewide release of a search tool called Snapshot. A demo of Snapshot is scheduled for today.
A state agency is seeking a chief operations officer who is well-versed in Enterprise Information Systems management to fill a key position. Filing deadline is Dec. 11.
The state's Child Welfare Digital Services project has published a list of anticipated procurements, with instructions for vendors and links to necessary documentation.
The secure Sacramento Regional Transit website was still down Tuesday morning, the result of a weekend hack in which ransom reportedly was demanded in the form of bitcoin. The agency said in a Facebook post that it was working with the federal Department of Homeland Security to resolve the cyberattack.
