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.
Private industry can bring agile experience and expertise to government programs, says Adam Dondro, agency information officer for the California Health and Human Services Agency.
In the third part of his interview with e.Republic’s Steve Towns, Peter Kelly, chief deputy director of the state Office of Systems Integration, explains that agile development relies on automated testing and “a continuous development and deployment pipeline.” Infrastructure can’t be a barrier, he said, and innovation must be done with the end user in mind. Kelly was interviewed during the California Technology Forum, an event put on by e.Republic’s Government Technology magazine and T
California has a multitude of contracting vehicles that can be used to acquire IT goods and/or services. There are numerous leveraged procurement agreement vehicles that allow the purchase of basic IT services.
Publicly connecting values with an agency's vision and mission is a key component of hiring that the state can improve on, according to Crystal Taylor, assistant director and acting deputy director of the Project Management Office within the California Department of Technology.
Chris Cruz, chief deputy director of the California Department of Technology, discussed the Amazon and Microsoft cloud contracts at California’s Technology’s Forum last week with e.Republic’s Steve Towns.
In the second installation of a multi-part interview, state Deputy CIO Chris Cruz discusses with e.Republic’s Steve Towns the challenges and pitfalls of standardizing government technology in a state as diverse as California.
The California Department of Technology announced its Vision2020 pillars Tuesday at the California Technology Forum, and Chris Cruz, state deputy CIO, sat down with Techwire to discuss the tenets.
This afternoon's Techwire virtual briefing offers a rare opportunity to hear from three leading California county CIOs, who together make up the executive board of directors of the California County Information Services Directors Association (CCISDA).
The California Energy Commission has a budget of $488 million for the 2017-18 fiscal year. $2.6 million of this has been allocated to its IT department, not including personnel costs and other expenditures from offices within the Energy Commission. The Energy Commission is currently working on a $750,000 Energy Analytics Information Platform (EAIP) pilot project, also referred to as the data lake. It is expected to be completed within the next year.
Mark your calendar for the next Techwire Virtual Briefing — and this one’s a hat trick. Whereas the briefings usually feature one industry figure, next Thursday’s features the top tech officers for three California counties. Jerry Becker, Tim Dupuis and Mike Pettit will be the guests for the conference call, led by Joseph Morris, vice president for research at Techwire’s parent company, e.Republic.
Deloitte has named a new Lead Client Services Partner for the State of California, overseeing consulting, advisory, audit and tax practices that the firm is performing for the state.
Child Welfare Digital Services is recruiting to fill the key project director's position, in charge of overseeing the administrative and customer support functions of the project to replace California's legacy child welfare system for county social workers.
Thought leaders from industry, government and academia will gather on Oct. 10 in Sacramento for the State of California Cybersecurity Education Summit. The educational forum offers continuing education units and features content tied to the five pillars of cybersecurity: identify, detect, protect, respond and recover.
Kehoe has served as King County, Wash., CIO for the past seven years, and pending a Board of Commissioners vote, will serve in the same capacity for Los Angeles County.
