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Dean Gialamas, a familiar face in Southern California IT circles, has been tapped as the next IT bureau chief and CIO for the Los Angeles Police Department.
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Proposition 24 on the November ballot is pitched as an expansion of California's already robust consumer data privacy law, but the technology giants seemingly square in its sights — the likes of Facebook, Amazon and Google — haven't shown up to the battlefield.
Just a few weeks remain for applications to a Cybersecurity Career Accelerator program, sponsored by the city of Sacramento and open to residents of the greater metro region whose employment has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) is poised to deploy the second of three phases of a new modeling technology this year, to aggregate and analyze weather and fuel data, and give fire managers a model of how a fire may react in real time.
The deputy director role has responsibilities involving governance, strategic direction and quality improvement. The research role calls for expertise with geographic information systems.
In a Request for Offer for Web Architecture, Design & Development Consulting Services, the California Workforce Development Board looks to enhance its Cross-System Analytics and Assessment for Learning and Skills Attainment (CAAL-Skills) program deployed in late 2016.
Chief Data Officer Joy Bonaguro, who's part of the Government Operations Agency, unveiled the new strategy in an email and a series of tweets, and on Medium.com she explains why she thought it was necessary.
Application deadlines for the four positions fall within the next two weeks.
Spending on IT services for the first half of 2020 also included consulting services and executive and leadership training.
Alice Scott-Rowe, CDT’s deputy director of communications, "has been a good and trusted public servant," said state CIO Amy Tong. CDT's chief deputy director, Richard Rogers, added: “She had her hands full overseeing events, speaking engagements, graphics, media relations and the Digital States Survey, to name a few of her responsibilities,” Rogers said. “Her retirement is well deserved, and we wish her the best.”
Transparency is a key principle for the Office of the Inspector General, says Bryan Beyer. As the office's chief deputy inspector general and technology chief, he says, "My focus remains on using the right technology for the right purpose."
With worldwide supply chains disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, many tech manufacturers were in back order for laptops and related devices. State schools chief Tony Thurmond credited tech companies with stepping up and prioritizing California students' needs.
The Best of California Awards program salutes IT professionals and projects in California state and local government organizations and educational institutions.
Ellen Ishimoto, the state's acting chief technology officer, said the remote-work convention, forced by COVID-19, has been a success for the state and is changing norms. It'll also save money, she said.
DMV chief Steve Gordon said vendors seeking DMV contracts should be innovative and creative. IT representatives seeking to work with DMV should "up their game," he said. "Bring their A game."
Chris Forbes, whose work history in IT, information security and privacy spans decades, has joined EVOTEK as chief information security officer and executive adviser.
Pedestrian pathways, bike-sharing facilities, bus-only lanes, charging stations for electric buses and light rail systems would all be easier for transit agencies to construct under the law.
In her new role, Angela Basi will be responsible for “continuing to develop strong relationships with community, government, and business leaders across Sacramento and fostering an inclusive culture and exceptional client service,” according to a company spokesperson.
Departments searching for candidates include the Department of Technology, the prisons, the public health department and the State Controller's Office.
CAL FIRE spent $8.8 million with a California-based company for technology that more precisely anticipates where a fire is heading, which can result in fewer unnecessary evacuations and a better response in firefighting.
The RFI notes: "It’s challenging to fund new initiatives when the return is not clear and the civic value is undefined. We’re open to public/private partnerships, and interesting, new ways to fund infrastructure. Let us know the strategies you are proposing as well as any trade-offs you see and how you would mitigate those trade-offs.”
During the first six months of 2020, the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services spent a little over $2.7 million on its five most expensive IT services buys — purchases that may have helped it considerably during an unprecedented year.
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Technological innovation in artificial intelligence has shifted. For the better part of a decade, AI operated within tightly bounded constraints: classifying images, generating text, and using these capabilities to surface recommendations. While these systems were powerful, they were fundamentally passive. They needed to receive a prompt in order to return a result. Once the result was achieved, the system stopped.
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