Barring a turnaround, the state will be facing another dry year and the continuation of what’s become the West’s most serious drought in hundreds of years.
State Treasurer John Chiang today announced that his executive team will include tech veteran Jan Ross, who served as his CIO at the State Controller’s Office:
The next version of California Email Services (CES) will become the state’s primary email platform, 100 percent owned, managed and hosted by the contractor.
California Attorney General Kamala Harris urged the public to review their smartphone settings and disable location services, remove photo geotagging, and disallow collection of location data in the background.
Haught most recently was a senior business for the California State Teachers Retirement System and provided data architecture support to the California Department of Insurance.
Matthew LeMiere, who has worked in California IT sales for two decades, most recently worked for Cisco as a client executive for the State of California.
After leaving her position as CIO of the Department of Defense in May, former state of California CIO Teri Takai now has two new roles in health care and cybersecurity.
CalREN has almost 10,000 connection sites among K-12, community colleges, the California State University, University of California campuses and private universities such as Caltech and Stanford.
Beginning in 2015 at least 10 percent of all eligible non-emergency, light-duty vehicle acquisitions (such as sedans) for the state’s fleet are electric vehicles.
Twitter is becoming an increasingly accurate surveillance tool for monitoring influenza in
U.S. cities, according to a San Diego State study published in the November issue of the Journal of Medical Internet Research.
Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) has selected Comcast Business to help the district innovate and modernize student learning by increasing high-speed Internet access to elementary, middle and high schools, the company announced today.
Judges were impressed by Los Angeles’ expenditure portal, 311 service platform, strides to bridge the digital divide by providing refurbished computers to the public, deployment of utility portals, use of open data architecture, and integration of a Cyber Intrusion Command Center to keep the city’s data safe.
Folsom-based Pondera Solutions CEO Jon Coss has been awarded “Next Tech Innovator of the Year" by the Sacramento Regional Technology Alliance (SARTA), the company announced. At its annual TechCon gathering held in Sacramento last week, SARTA recognized Coss as “an outstanding individual in the Sacramento region for the creativity, novelty, application, importance, commercialization, and effectiveness of their innovation in Next Technology.”
The Entrepreneurs Showcase Accelerator program has mentored more than 70 companies, including Snippet, a publishing app for writers, and security software company Pondera.
Following a troubled software launch and the resignation of the Los Angeles Unified School District superintendent, the district also has lost its head of technology.
The CHHS Open Data Portal folds in data sets already posted on the CDPH Open Data website and adds new data, charts and maps from the Office of Statewide Health Planning & Development (OSHPD).
With Election Day around the corner, California this year has a few ballot measures that could dramatically impact how the state operates in the future.
The California Department of Human Resources is tripling capacity to its job application portal after the site crashed last month when thousands of users flooded the site in pursuit of an entry-level state job.
The best and brightest applications from California were honored Tuesday in Sacramento as officials from across the state convened for a government mobility conference.
The Affordable Care Act is encouraging more integration through automation, but it's also making delivery of Medi-Cal and other services more challenging.
The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) released on Oct. 30 a list of the top ten priorities for CIOs in 2015. Security, cloud services and consolidation topped the list for the third year in a row.
The State Controller’s Office announced Tuesday that it has added financial data from California’s 130 public pension systems to its open data website, ByTheNumbers.sco.ca.gov.
