The Center for Digital Government is seeking nominations for its annual awards program for IT professionals in California state and local government and education organizations.
The session during CalTech’s Project Academy Series features speakers Graeme Finley, an IT consultant and managing director at Grant Thornton; and Jamie Mangrum, CIO of the Department of State Hospitals.
The Department of Industrial Relations and the California Department of Public Health announced they have received a nearly $200,000 grant from the CDC National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
The Nevada state senate has approved a $1 fee for DMV customers to pay for a new $109 million computer system aimed to improve online transactions and increase data security, according to the Associated Press. To fund the multi-year DMV modernization project, the Senate Finance Committee on Monday approved SB 502 that is expected to raise $10 million over the next two years.
The "Veteran Small Business Champion of the Year Award" is presented annually in each state to individuals who have advanced small business opportunities for veterans of the U.S. armed forces.
The Department of General Services has soft launched a new Web app that lists and maps training and outreach events for Small Business and Disabled Veteran Business Enterprises.
The Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) and Level 3 Communications announced this week the first 100-gigabits-per-second (Gbps) research and education connections to Level 3’s global network have been completed in Los Angeles and San Jose.
The Institute for Advanced Technology and Public Policy (IATPP) at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, engaged two polling firms – one Democratic and the other Republican – to measure sentiment among 800 likely voters on five reform proposals:
Junior-high and high-school students with an interest in cybersecurity are invited to enroll in a free three-day education program this summer at one of five community colleges in the Sacramento region.
In a bulletin released this week, the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) warned that hacktivists are mining social media accounts to compile dossiers of personal information about law enforcement personnel and public officials, and are posting the data online.
According to various media reports, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson announced Tuesday the department plans to open a satellite office in Silicon Valley in order improve coordination with tech companies.
Executive coach Kirk Weisler will share ideas for building an engaged workplace culture during a free event Wednesday, April 22, at 6 p.m. at the Department of General Services building in West Sacramento.
The eighth-annual Emerging Technology Leadership Summit Series Kickoff in Sacramento features an awards program and a full slate of sessions and panels.
California cloud infrastructure is the subject of the first case study in a series of papers planned by two national associations that will examine IT procurement projects in states.
California's state and local officials made their presence known in Government Technology’s annual recognition of the public sector's most innovative change-makers.
This year the State Fair will select two technology champions -- an individual and a project -- for "remarkable contributions" to the California technology industry.
Trackprop30.ca.gov tracks district- and school-level spending in the wake of Proposition 30, a temporary tax increase approved in 2012 to stabilize K-12 and community college funding.
Separate pieces of legislation circulating at the State Capitol would create a state-level chief data officer and require local agencies to inventory the data they have. One expert thinks California can push the envelope even further.
The app allows those with an account with CalJOBS to search and apply for jobs, receive notifications when new jobs become available, and use the "Jobs Nearby"function to map jobs near their current location.
The National Association of State Chief Information Officers' Corporate Leadership Council identifies five recommendations for working with state CIOs.
Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, rejected a plea from the California Department of Consumer Affairs for more money to help shore up a troubled IT project.
