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.
The State 911 Advisory Board will hold a public meeting on Thursday, Aug. 13, from 9 a.m. to noon in the Sacramento City Council Chambers at 915 I Street.
Data mining company FiscalNote says California’s is among the top five legislative websites in the nation, along with Michigan, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.
Joe Bell will be overseeing all aspects of Comcast’s operations in the South Valley, including Fresno, Merced, Visalia, Santa Maria and North Santa Barbara areas.
The Department of Technology and California’s Save Our Water public education program partnered to develop and launch the mobile-optimized website: SaveWater.ca.gov/
A big majority of Californians appear to support more tax credits and incentives for purchasing electric vehicles (67 percent) and installing rooftop solar panels (78 percent).
When an emergency occurs, a staff member can pull a tab on their wearable lanyard. The PDAS system -- which utilizes a radio frequency identification-based, real-time system -- then immediately broadcasts the staff member’s location to others via text message.
A trove of data encompassing 650,000 public-sector positions and $32 billion in wages from 2014 has been added to http://www.publicpay.ca.gov/, State Controller Betty T. Yee announced Wednesday.
The Department of Technology’s Office of Professional Development has produced a new video recapping ITLA 22. Graduates of the nine-month program, which trains the up-and-coming generation of state IT leaders, describe their experiences and what they learned.
A new survey of CIOs from the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) finds that most IT investments are directed at maintaining overly complex IT systems.
The deadline for submitting nominations for the Outstanding IT Service and Support Awards -- recognizing exemplary service and support, teamwork and collaboration, or innovation contributions of an IT professional in an agency organization – has been extended to July 15.
Customers making an online appointment at the California Department of Motor Vehicles can now search multiple field offices simultaneously for available dates and times.
The California Department of Insurance is reminding ride-share drivers and companies such as Uber, Lyft and Sidecar that a new law effective July 1 requires them to carry liability insurance coverage.
The San Francisco Public Library accesses city-owned fiber for a new 10 gigabit connection to its main library at 100 Larkin Street and 1 gigabit at seven branch libraries -- with plans to connect all 27 branch libraries at this speed.
Funded by a National Science Foundation grant, the exhibit highlights "simple electric circuits in a setting designed to evoke the period of transition from steam to diesel-electric power for U.S. railroads, generally from 1947 to 1955."
The annual nine-month training program is designed to groom the next generation of technology leaders. Under the mentorship of an executive sponsor, the class participates in a rigorous series of classroom sessions, lectures, forums and field trips.
A U.S. Conference Mayors judging panel awarded West Sacramento Mayor Christopher Cabaldon a $150,000 grant on behalf of the West Sacramento Foundation in support of the FutureReady program, which connects students studying STEM to work-based learning internships and job training.
