The California Water Data Challenge, announced on Friday, invites interested individuals and teams to develop apps, websites, data visualizations or other tools “that leverage publicly available data sets in novel ways to support creative solutions to California’s water challenges, as outlined in the Brown administration’s California Water Action Plan,” according to a joint release by several state agencies supporting the competition.
The IT Alliance for Public Sector (ITAPS) introduced on Thursday new recommendations for aligning states' IT contract terms and conditions "as closely as possible to commercial contracting practices."
The Sacramento City Council has recommended 15 recipients for new innovation grants the city hopes will boost entrepreneurs in the local tech economy. Some familiar names, such as I/O Labs, Hacker Lab and Code for Sacramento, landed on the list.
The proposed guidance asks agencies to develop and implement targeted modernization plans for specific high-risk, high-priority systems, and to do so in four phases.
Los Angeles County Chief Information Security Officer Robert Pittman is one of eight winners of the sixth-annual Cybersecurity Leadership and Innovation Awards, announced by the Center for Digital Government on Thursday.
California Department of Insurance is conducting market research for cloud-based Software-as-a-Service data analytics services for its Network Adequacy Reporting System project.
California State University (CSU) is seeking a data center support solution that can scale-on-demand and be available 24/7, in a recently released RFP.
California's information security office is developing a streamlined list of security objectives for state agencies and departments that's intended to address high-risk issues. State officials believe the approximately 30 objectives will help put the state's computer systems onto a common baseline and standardize the controls.
The solution will be used to manage workflows for two CAL FIRE divisions — the Fire and Life Safety and Fire Engineering Divisions — including applications, plan reviews, inspections, Certificates of Occupancy, licenses, operator registrations, contractor registrations and other types of licenses.
Clark County, Nev., CIO Louis Carr will assume the role chief information technology officer for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power in mid-November.
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) is in the market for IT consulting and system design services to work on the Marine Landings Data System. The department is soliciting bids for the project through the California Multiple Award Schedule (CMAS).
This week CalFresh Branch Chief Kim McCoy Wade detailed the work the government program (formerly known as Food Stamps) has been doing with Code for America to develop new ways for customers to access their benefits. Code for America and CalFresh have been working to develop an application support site as well as a mobile platform for the application that’s in plain English.
New facts and figures from the California Department of Justice analyze firearms transactions in the state. A series of statistics, charts and graphs about the topic are now available on OpenJustice, the department's open data website, Cal DOJ announced Wednesday.
At Hacker Lab in Sacramento tonight, Kim McCoy Wade, chief of the CalFresh Branch at the Welfare to Work Division of the California Department of Social Services, will talk about how CalFresh, formerly known as food stamps, is using technology to achieve its program goals.
The cap will apply to any customers using more than 1 terabyte per month, well above the average customer’s monthly usage says the company, which is about 75 gigabytes per month. The cap will go into effect for California customers on Nov. 1., according to several media reports.
The California Employment Development Department announced on Monday its new online Data Library, intended to assist users in accessing information about the California labor market. The new portal will allow users to search, view and download data on California industries, occupations, employment projections, wages and labor force.
Continuing the fight against cybercrime in California, state Attorney General Kamala D. Harris announced Monday the creation of the California Cyber Crime Center, a new program by the California Department of Justice intended to fight digital crime and utilize new cybersecurity technologies across the state.
After its controversial "free Internet" program was shut down in India, the social giant hopes to leverage its position in the tech community to offer rural U.S. residents some form of connection.
California appears to be aligned with a majority of state governments on many procurement practices — with a few exceptions — according to new data from the National Association of State Procurement Officers (NASPO).
Under Assembly Bill 2664, the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative, which Gov. Jerry Brown signed on Friday, each campus will receive $2.2 million in one-time state funds to build out incubator space, equipment, training, legal services and lab space. UC said it also will raise matching funds.
California is looking to the tech-driven future, as Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law this week a bill that could be a first step toward having computer sciences classes in every school. The bill, AB 2329, authored by Assemblymember Susan Bonilla, D-Concord, and co-sponsored by Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, directs a new advisory panel to develop a long-term strategic implementation plan for computer science education in K-12 and higher ed.
A biennial report from the California State Auditor released Tuesday finds once again that computer-processed data in some of the state’s information systems isn’t reliable enough for state auditing purposes. The report summarizes the reliability of data from state systems tested in 2014 and 2015.
The $98 million system, called VoteCal, enables Californians to register online to vote, check the status of their ballot, and find their polling place -- all via a one-stop website, https://voterstatus.sos.ca.gov/. Voters can also opt out of the paper-based State Voter Information Guide.
The California Department of Insurance is seeking to buy cloud-based services for e-discovery purposes under a proposed three-year period. During the course of the contract, the department expects it will transition to software as a service for some of the e-discovery functions.
The California Department of Technology is preparing to release a bid for Business Intelligence solutions as a service. In preparation for the release of the solicitation, the state is requesting comments on draft technical requirements. Responses are requested by Sept. 30.
Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill on Thursday that exempts ID numbers and other unique alphanumeric codes used by public agencies to identify vendors and contractors from public disclosure under the California Public Records Act.
