Federal CTO Todd Park will leave his position by the end of this year, Fortune reported Aug. 22. Citing "sources familiar with the situation," the publication says Park will return to the West Coast, but remain with the White House in some capacity.
Abhi Nemani, a former co-director of Code for America, will lead operation of Los Angeles’ recently-launched open data portal, with the goals of promoting transparency and accountability.
Two projects at the California Highway Patrol are recognized by the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) for outstanding information technology achievements in the public sector.
The California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services’ will host its second town-hall meeting on FirstNet, the federal government’s planned nationwide public safety communications network.
Deloitte started the golf tournament 13 years ago to bring Sacramento’s business community together to help local nonprofit organizations. All funds raised go to local children's charities.
Under the five-year extension,which includes a pair of two-year options, HP will continue managing Anaheim’s IT infrastructure, which it has done since 2003.
The state website that discloses pay data for California public employees now contains information on nearly 5.6 million positions and $294 billion in wages paid in 2013.
FirstNet is the independent government authority spearheading the federal government’s plan to launch a nationwide public safety communications network.
The Sacramento Police Department announced the first anniversary of its partnership with Nextdoor, the San Francisco-based social network touted as a ‘virtual neighborhood watch.’
A new economic development group — the Greater Sacramento Area Economic Development Council — has formed in Sacramento intending to help boost the region’s appeal for businesses. According to an article in the Sacramento Business Journal, Bob Lynch of VSP, Pat Fry of Sutter Health, David Lucchetti of Pacific Coast Building Products and Steve Oldham former CEO of SureWest Communications are driving the group.
SB-962 — introduced by Senator Leno — would require a ‘kill switch’ default on smartphones sold after July 1, 2015. The consumer, however, could opt out at time of purchase or at any time following. The bill is intended to reduce the incentive to steal smartphones and use or resell them.
Riverside County, Calif., which is still recovering from effects of the recession, may lay off IT staff, according to an article in The Press-Enterprise. The recession cost the county an estimated $200 million in revenue which put county employees on furlough and closed some offices one day per week. But while all offices are now back to a five-day-a-week schedule, the county IT Department is consolidating and CIO Kevin Crawford is requesting 48 fewer positions than he requested last fiscal year.
The following two tech-related education bills are in play in the legislature. Senator Pavley introduced SB 923 and Assembly Member Chau introduced AB 153o.
Accela, a provider of civic engagement solutions for government, announced Monday that it has acquired Envista, a Massachusetts-based provider of right-of-way management solutions. The Envista solution, which will be branded Accela Right of Way Management, helps agencies coordinate all street activities and road construction projects between agencies and utility providers, enables roadwork prioritization and improves the management of street cuts.
On June 10, Integra won contracts for Ethernet, SONET and Internet services under phase two of the three-phase CALNET 3 initiative, a multi-billion-dollar telecommunication procurement for California state and local government.
When Fi$Cal Technology Team Deputy Director David Duarte returned to CalPERS, Chi Emodi became Fi$Cal’s interim CIO and deputy director of the Technology Team. Fi$Cal will now recruit for a permanent CIO.
If you are a state IT professional and want to develop leadership skills in strategic planning, networking, collaborative management, IT procurement, contracting, vendor management and more, the Information Technology Leadership Academy (ITLA) wants you.
NuCivic, Acquia and Carahsoft announced the launch of NuData Enterprise, a fully open source software-as-a-service (SaaS) open data management solution based on Drupal. NuData is a new look at open data, say the companies, which allows government to use an Open SaaS approach to open-data initiatives.
Accela, a provider of civic engagement solutions for government, announced that it has acquired IQM2, a New York-based provider of legislative solutions. IQM2’s cloud solution unifies the experience of preparing, deciding and sharing the results and content of public meetings online. Accela will support all IQM2 solutions and their customers will now have the ability to provide open data through CivicData.com, Accela’s free open data portal. IQM2’s customers include Riverside County, Calif.; Palo Alto, Calif.; and Santa Clara, Calif.
According to a Stateline article on population changes, California is one of five states losing the most population to interstate moves. This is significant because immigration has dropped in recent years, and movers are now the main force for population change, said the article, “bucking a decades-long trend of Americans staying put.”
Dustin Haisler, a former government CIO who helped pioneer new uses for mobile technology and social media in the public sector, has become Chief Innovation Officer for e.Republic, Inc., publisher of Government Technology and govtech.com.
Proposition 42 – which requires local government compliance with open records laws without reimbursement for the costs of compliance – passed in Tuesday’s primary election.
