The Institute for Water, Energy, Sustainability and Technology (iWEST) — announced earlier this year as a means to combine science and policymaking via interdisciplinary, applied research — is launching with $750,000 from the university. Plans call for iWEST to eventually have a campus of its own on a parcel of land near Sac State.
A beta of the GreenGov open data portal was launched ahead of the Innovation Code-a-Thon this weekend on Oct. 24-25. The $25,000 contest at the Ziggurat building in West Sacramento is sponsored by the Department of General Services, GovOps and several other departments and companies.
The portal, which is just under a year old, was created by Mayor Ed Lee, the Department of Technology, the Office of Economic and Workforce Development, and the Office of Small Business, along with a local design firm, Tomorrow Partners. It recently won a “Best of California” Award in August 2015.
The lab has been operating for several weeks and has been working on 16 startups utilizing medical devices, aquaponics, desalination membranes, 3-D printed robotics for the agricultural industry, and other emerging technologies.
The 50 states could potentially save $11 billion collectively by leveraging self-service tools for routine employee tasks, automating manual processes, and optimizing agency operations, said the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) in a new analysis released Tuesday.
As part of its business plan, the Lottery intends to lean more heavily on analytics in the coming years. The Lottery collects information from about 4 million players who have registered online for a chance at a second chance to win, as well as a trove of data from retail partners that sell scratchers and lottery tickets.
The California Department of Public Health has decided to hand over project management of its Women, Infants and Children Management Information System to the Office of Systems Integration (OSI), according to state records.
The system would initially operate in Sacramento, West Sacramento and Davis, according to an RFI released Sept. 29. The system might also serve Sacramento City College, California State University, Sacramento, and UC Davis.
The Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC), the state’s political watchdog, is interested in exploring options for application development platforms.
The city’s current financial system is called Financial Accounting and Management Information System (FAMIS), a COBOL-VSAM mainframe. It connects to the city’s payroll, budget and EIS systems.
CalPERS has bids in the works for disaster recovery, a legacy system replacement and the organization’s data warehouse, according to CIO Liana Bailey-Crimmins.
A Joint Legislative Budget Committee report and a Special Project Report detailing the changes will be publicly released at the end of October, according to the Treasurer’s Office.
Gartner said “three trends come together — the relationship of machines to people; "smart-ness" applied to the work environment; and the evolution of the Nexus of Forces — to create 10 disparate predictions that are more related than they first seem.”
The Wildfire Hazard Map is much like a flood map, showing the likelihood an area will burn sometime during the next few decades. The map displays color-coded fire hazard severity zones overlaid over the perimeters of large fires and firestorms that have happened the past 35 years.
Gov. Brown on Saturday vetoed three bills aimed to increase public safety by criminalizing the flying of unmanned aircraft near wildfires and over prisons and schools.
The city of San Jose has taken another step toward a possible public-private partnership that would replace 40,000 streetlights with energy-efficient LEDs with smart controllers.
Gov. Jerry Brown announced Wednesday he has signed legislation that requires emergency service providers to report data using electronic health records that are compliant with the California Emergency Medical Services Information System (CEMSIS) and the National Emergency Medical Services Information System (NEMSIS) standards.
The system, built on the Civic Insight platform, uses data updated nightly from the city’s internal land management system. Civic Insight was founded by Code for America alumni and its product is used by localities such as Monterey County, Palo Alto and New Orleans.
The public-facing California Environmental Reporting System accepts data inputted by regulated businesses that are required to submit information about hazardous materials, hazardous waste, underground tanks and more.
Joshua L. Schank will serve as first-ever chief innovation officer of Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s newly created “Office of Extraordinary Innovation.”
The golf tournament Sept. 25 at Haggin Oaks brought together the Sacramento tech community to raise money for a variety of charities. View a full photo gallery from the event.
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