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.
Founded in 1999, Capterra works with thousands of software vendors to understand their products in order to match companies with the software for their needs.
The BreEZe team is continuing to work on configurations and extensions for the eight boards and commissions under the Department of Consumer Affairs that will move onto the system before the project is potentially reconfigured, according to a new project update.
The grant from the International Research Network Connections (IRNC) program will support expansion of Pacific Wave, an international Internet exchange facility that interconnects the research and education community of the Pacific Rim.
The Department of General Services signed an agreement with Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) this week to purchase 100 percent renewable energy for all its state-owned buildings in downtown Sacramento, including the state capitol.
The Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) this week signed Memoranda of Understanding with Japan in which the parties will work to build out the network of fast-charging electric vehicle (EV) stations in Northern California and demonstrate a "redox flow" battery storage technology.
The council is scheduled to hear informational testimony from the California Department of Education, the California State Library, and the California State Transportation Agency.
Gov. Brown on Wednesday appointed Miriam Barcellona Ingenito, 43, as executive partner of the Financial Information System for California (FI$Cal), replacing Jeff Uyeda, who retired from state service last month.
Secretary of State Alex Padilla has added a new feature to the Cal-Access campaign finance database called "Power Search." The enhanced search platform, developed by nonpartisan reseach organization Maplight using open source software, includes state-level political contributions for candidates and ballot measures from individuals, businesses and other compaign committees.
As unmanned aircraft, also known as drones, become more popular among hobbyists, California lawmakers are pushing measures that will restrict their flight over wildfires, prisons and schools.
CSC announced on Monday that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) awarded the company a $108 million contract to deliver cloud services, including migration services and data center consolidation. Among CSC's business partners are Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.
Urban planners have historically had to do their jobs with only the dimmest understanding of what’s going on. Now they have more information than they can handle.
Virginia Williams has been hired by CGI as vice president of consulting services, leading the firm's health and human services practice with the state of California account. Williams spent more than 25 years with IBM, primarily working on solution development and large IT system engagements for California government.
A report released by the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) says states have the opportunity to stimulate the capabilities of the supplier community and an obligation to set the public policy direction when it comes to accessibility in IT procurement.
The California Energy Commission on Tuesday announced a new application, the Climate Console, that utilizes geospatial data to show how climate change could impact the state’s desert regions and wildlife. Developed by the Conservation Biology Institute, the new tool allows scientists and planners to develop climate change models to predict such things as temperature and precipitation.
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson on Monday announced $50 million in grant funding for California schools to enhance networking infrastructure.
California’s public libraries are connecting to a high-speed broadband system for research institutions and schools as part of the latest expansion to a 3,800-mile fiber network called CalREN.
