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Wayne Hanson

Wayne E. Hanson has been a writer and editor with e.Republic since 1989, and has worked for several business units including Government Technology magazine, the Center for Digital Government, Governing, and is currently editor and writer for Digital Communities specializing in local government.

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Project Academy Focuses on Transition
RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif. — Many of the IT project managers who filed into a session of the state’s Project Academy June 20 in Rancho Cordova were early. The "Fix 50" Highway construction project which had delayed traffic for some time finished ahead of schedule and expected delays evaporated.
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June 23, 2014
 · Wayne Hanson
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Comcast Awards Scholarships, Computers to College-Bound Students
Nearly 200 graduating high school seniors received scholarships June 11 on the steps of the California State Capitol, courtesy of Comcast’s Leaders and Achievers scholarship program. The program — in its seventh year — gives outstanding high school seniors a helping hand as they head off to college.
June 12, 2014
 · Wayne Hanson
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CIO Profile: Fontana, Calif., IT Director Dennis Vlasich
Fontana, Calif., IT Director Dennis Vlasich
June 11, 2014
 · Wayne Hanson
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Tech Staff Shift at Fi$Cal
Fi$Cal Technology Team Deputy Director David Duarte, on loan from CalPERS, has returned to his previous position for personal reasons, according to a Fi$Cal spokesperson.
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June 06, 2014
 · Wayne Hanson
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National Day of Civic Hacking: Opportunities in Civic Engagement
The second annual National Day of Civic Hacking (NDoCH) kicks off May 31 and runs through the weekend with events in 103 cities in the U.S., Canada and abroad — a number of those in California. “The event will bring together citizens, software developers, and entrepreneurs,” says the official website, “to collaboratively create, build, and invent new solutions using publicly released data, code and technology to improve our communities and the governments that serve them.” And the event has become so popular, even the White House has been promoting it.
May 30, 2014
 · Wayne Hanson
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Canada Joins Rush to Poach California Businesses
California’s industrial economy has moved elsewhere, and the attitude of many in government seems to be ‘good riddance,’ according to Joel Kotkin in the Orange County Register. “The prevailing notion in California’s ruling circles seems to be, if you have Google and Facebook, who needs dirty, energy-consuming factories or corporate operations filled with middle managers?”
May 28, 2014
 · Wayne Hanson
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Controller, CalVet to Match 95,000 Veterans With Unclaimed Property
State Controller John Chiang announces the data match with CalVet that discovered 95,000 California veterans with unclaimed property in the Controller’s database.
May 23, 2014
 · Wayne Hanson
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Q&A with Robert Callahan, Executive Director, The Internet Association's California Office
On March 14, Robert Callahan announced he was leaving his post as TechAmerica’s director of state government affairs in California, to become executive director of the Internet Association’s first California office. Techwire asked Callahan to answer some questions about his new position and what it might mean to technology companies in the Golden State.
May 20, 2014
 · Wayne Hanson
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CalPERS to Launch Healthcare Transparency Site, Other Innovations
This June, the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) will launch a health transparency website where members can login to see current deductibles, copays and other information. Members will also be able to search for facilities or physicians by quality and cost metrics, said CalPERS Center for Innovation Chief David Cowling.
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May 19, 2014
 · Wayne Hanson
Events
Data Analytics 2014, Tuesday May 13, Sacramento Sheraton Grand
What does predicting the location of improvised explosive devices have to do with better decisions in government?
May 12, 2014
 · Wayne Hanson
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Open data for California?
Open government data — from the federal government’s data.gov to Sacramento’s open data portal — is being recognized as vital fuel for the Information Age economic engine. And despite some less than pleasing social, political and legal side effects, open data is in keeping with a modern democracy. Emily Shaw, the national policy manager at the Sunlight Foundation, said that open data is the manifestation of open government.
May 09, 2014
 · Wayne Hanson
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Bill would reveal contract details to the public
Transparency runs hot and cold in California politics.
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May 08, 2014
 · Wayne Hanson
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California Conservation Corps to replace CADCARS system
The California Conservation Corps recruits young adults from 18-25 years of age, to work for the state, doing everything from energy audits to trail building and fire fighting. The CCC has 24 locations around the state and residential centers where Corpsmembers live.
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April 30, 2014
 · Wayne Hanson
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A preview of California's next IT project approval system
At first glance, California’s State Technology Approval Reform (STAR)– a new IT project approval process — looks a bit forboding. According to the STAR website, the approval process is broken into stages, separated by gates. Each stage develops deliverables used as inputs for the next gate, and each gate has a “proceed to the next stage” or “go back and rethink” function. However, the goals for the process — build a more efficient process, reduce risk, assist collaboration, improve success, define needs and increase approval integrity — seem a bit more hopeful.
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April 29, 2014
 · Wayne Hanson
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Senate hearing examines IT procurement
The California State Senate Thursday conducted an oversight hearing on the state’s IT procurement and implementation practices, spurred in part by last year’s failure of the 21st Century project intended to replace HR and payroll systems serving some 260,000 state employees. Hearing Chair Sen. Richard Roth said the state does not have a good track record with IT procurement, and lessons learned from failures must be used to chart a more successful path forward.
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April 14, 2014
 · Wayne Hanson
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Outsourcing Under Fire
The California Assembly last Thursday passed a union-sponsored resolution aimed at halting most public-sector outsourcing. House Resolution 29 by Jimmy Gomez, (D-Los Angeles), sponsored by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, states that outsourcing “harms transparency, accountability, shared prosperity and competition…”
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April 08, 2014
 · Wayne Hanson
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