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.
Over the next six years, the California Department of State Hospitals will be building a platform designed to improve security and access to data, increase employee productivity, automate and share business processes and support evidence-based decisions, according to the department’s CIO, Rogene Sears.
Catherine Kendall, CIO of the state Department of Conservation, discusses data migration, storage and other topics with Steve Towns of e.Republic in the first half of a two-part interview.
How can state government departments be sure that by engaging the California Project Management Office (CA-PMO), they are not bringing on a control agency insider?
Louis Carr Jr., chief information technology officer for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, will be the subject of Tuesday’s Techwire virtual briefing. Among the topics to be addressed will be what he sees on the horizon for RFPs and other opportunities for vendors.
OpenGov has launched a performance measurement product meant to help governments track progress toward goals, and even compare their metrics to similar agencies in other jurisdictions. San Rafael is among the cities that was a beta tester and is now using the product.
Last month’s California Tech Forum in Sacramento offered a chance for state IT leaders to get their message out to hundreds of colleagues and vendors — and it also yielded plenty of insight into the views of some of California’s most influential CIOs, AIOs and industry figures. Their video interviews with Techwire have been drawing lots of attention; Insiders can catch up with what they missed.
It’s going to be up to the private sector to help push the development of blockchain as a security tool, and government can be among the biggest beneficiaries of the technology, says Dale Jablonsky, Public Sector West advisory director for KPMG.
The state Department of Technology is implementing new rates beginning Sunday for Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) and Vendor Hosted Subscription Services (VHSS).
IT security is an important concern at all levels of government. The term "security" refers to a lot of concerns, from network safety to data protection.
October's Techwire newsletter included coverage on successful and shelved legislation as well as some of the events at the California Tech Forum. The Editor's Notebook column and a review of our Virtual Briefing can be found in the first few pages. Updates on the CWDS agile program and People on the Move are toward the back.
