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.
California State CIO Carlos Ramos talks about innovative technology the state has been using and reflects on the challenges of working in the public sector and the changes he’s seen during the course of his career.
The map, powered by Esri, illustrates the construction and energy development boom that has gone on as California strives to reach its policy goal of generating one third of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020.
The services, from CenturyLink, FireHost, and Verizon, were procured through an RFP and are available to all members of the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC).
As part of the Department of Technology’s State Technology Approval Reform (STAR) project introduced last year to improve California’s project approval process, state agencies have until October 31 to submit plans for upcoming IT projects.
The documents identify strategic and tactical objectives that would support accelerated adoption of cloud computing in the federal government, and could be valuable for other organizations.
In the role, Higashidani served as an adviser to California Prisons Receiver J. Clark Kelso on fiscal, procurement, contract and business services matters, according to CCHCS.
Peevey has been at the center of controversy over the PUC's handling of a 2010 fatal gas pipeline explosion in San Bruno, the permanent closing of the San Onofre nuclear power plant and pending utility rate hikes.
Ramos is one of eight state CIOs serving on the Executive Committee, which directs the association’s general business, including strategic planning, membership policy, dues; and approving the annual budget and business workplan.
Judy James will be based in Rohnert Park and will be responsible for Comcast's local government affairs and policy issues in the Napa, Sonoma, North Solano, Marin and Mendocino areas.
The California Department of Health Care Services received a national award on Wednesday for its new innovation strategy pushing forward with mobile applications, cloud-first technology and software-as-a-service.
Announced on Oct. 7 by the Center for Digital Government (CDG), California state projects are among the winners of the 2014 Digital Government Achievement Awards.
