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.
The growing role of women in IT leadership is an undeniable trend, yet much remains to be done. That’s the message behind an event planned for Thursday evening by the Sacramento chapter of Women in Technology International (WITI), in which Chris Cruz, the state’s deputy CIO, will be among the speakers and panelists.
In case you missed it, the California Department of Technology has made available the sights, sounds and takeaways from Friday’s Vendor Fair, held at the California Lottery building in Sacramento. Techwire provided exclusive coverage for Insiders in Monday’s newsletter.
Do you work in the public sector under a CIO who deserves recognition for his or her leadership, customer service or stewardship? Nominations have opened for the California CIO Academy Awards Program. The awards, presented by Public CIO magazine, will recognize individuals in California government organizations for their outstanding contributions, best practices and works of distinction.
This month, Techwire has presented private-sector advice on how cybersecurity can be done better in the public sector. Today, Assemblymember Blanca Rubio, D-San Gabriel Valley, and member of the Tech Caucus, offers some legislative pointers and a peek at the coming year.
Maintaining the theme of October as Cybersecurity Awareness month, Techwire has been gathering information on how the public and private sectors handle cybersecurity risks and where cybersecurity is going. Here, Marty DeGraff, industry director for government, education and medical at Lexmark, provides some insight into what the private sector thinks the public sector should do. His comments came via an email interview with Techwire.
Child Welfare Digital Services, a project of the state’s Office of Systems Integration, is holding an IT Career Fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday to fill an anticipated wave of open positions as part of an internal “ramp-up” of its move to an agile platform.
Techwire's next virtual briefing is set for Nov. 1, and it's with Jonathan Behnke, an IT veteran whose city, San Diego, is attracting attention for its tech efforts, advances and awareness. CIO Behnke has over 20 years of IT experience managing and implementing technology for a broad range of industries including public sector, contract services, oil, construction, automotive, distribution, consulting and manufacturing.
A couple of dozen CIOs and a host of vendors will mix it up for a few days beginning Sunday at “Waves of Change,” the fall conference of the California County Information Services Directors Association (CCISDA).
Subbarao Mupparaju, CIO of the Financial Information System for California (FI$Cal), offers an overview of how the centralized financial platform for the state of California is streamlining 2,500 legacy financial systems used across more than 120 departments. He was interviewed by e.Republic’s Steve Towns during last month’s California Technology Forum in Sacramento.
The California Secretary of State’s Office has been recognized by the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) for reducing barriers to doing business in the state through its use of technology.
