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.
More than a dozen hobbyist drones have interfered with or impacted response efforts so far during California’s 2015 fire season, according to legislative testimony this week from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE).
Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) has been awarded a $600,000 U.S. Department of Energy grant to install smart-grid technologies that will help protect against cyberattacks and other disruptions.
Finalists will be featured on the Let’s Get Healthy California online portal launching in 2016, and data-focused innovations also will be showcased at the statewide Open Data Fest next year.
Former State Sen. Sam Blakeslee, founding director of the Institute for Advanced Technology and Public Policy (IATPP) at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, will give the keynote at the 2015 California Technology Forum this morning in Sacramento.
Leaders from state government and local organizations will draw upon their experience to talk about California’s data divide and the state’s open data strategy during an Aug. 13 panel discussion Techwire is hosting at the California Technology Forum in Sacramento.
The staff of Assemblywoman Ling Ling Chang, R-Diamond Bar, livestreamed a California Energy Commission meeting on Wednesday morning to show that webcasts of public meetings can be done at little or no cost.
UCLA said it is working with the FBI and cybersecurity firms to upgrade security, and it provided patients with a year's worth of identity theft protection. The health system declined to comment on the lawsuit.
The website, https://data.cityofberkeley.info/, currently offers a total of 17 data sets on 311 requests, crime incidents, business licenses, restaurant inspections, water use, and more.
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s Strategic Offender Management System (SOMS) and the Project Academy Series within the Department of Technology’s Office of Professional Development have been named finalists for a national award recognizing IT achievement in the public sector.
