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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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Nine of California's 58 counties were winners this year in the 18th Annual Digital Counties Survey, conducted by the Center for Digital Government and published annually by Government Technology magazine. Generally, they exhibited a focus on planning and were underway on initiatives that proved vital when the COVID-19 pandemic took hold.
The news from Monday's CPUC meeting comes a month after a state investigation found that the commission hired 17 of Alice Stebbins’ former co-workers — in some cases over more qualified candidates in appointments of “highly questionable legitimacy.”
Representatives of state government, the IT industry and academia will be featured Wednesday in a virtual conference focused on cybersecurity, education and building the future workforce.
Organizations around the state are wielding a variety of newer technologies against wildland fires — valuable updates in a time of conflagrations driven in part by climate change.
Ghomeshi will focus on “collaboration, partnership, planning and marketing initiatives,” according to his LinkedIn profile.
The agencies that are recruiting handle technology, health care and procurement. The application deadlines for all three roles are soon.
A 30-year state employee and former chief information officer has joined the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing as interim CIO after the department saw its own technology head depart in July.
Alameda County CIO Tim Dupuis and San Jose CIO Rob Lloyd discussed “Managing Change Where It Matters Most” in a conversation with e.Republic Chief Innovation Officer Dustin Haisler, at the recent Bay Area Virtual Digital Government Summit.
The California Department of Technology and the Department of State Hospitals are closing applications for both positions within a week.
Stewart brought his efforts to bear in various aspects of new and emerging technology — autonomous vehicle testing, expansion of 5G telecommunications technology in Sacramento, subscription-based ride hailing, cybersecurity, digital license plates, and bus-based Wi-Fi, among others. He also serves as a mentor to many and as an advocate for industry and academia.
The award-winning technology executive was the county's chief information officer before his promotion to assistant county administrator in 2018. He's headed to the California Transportation Department, where he'll lead strategic planning operations.
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Ahsan Baig, chief information officer at Alameda-Contra Costa County Transit, has a full agenda – and some developing vendor opportunities: "We are in the middle of ERP cloud hosting, big data analytics, and a couple of cybersecurity initiatives. In coming years, we will be looking for more cybersecurity projects, IT modernization, cloud expansion, data center integration, mobile app, big data, ML/AI platforms, etc."
One of the positions in recruitment is for a deputy director, and the other is for an IT supervisor to oversee technology infrastructure.
Gov. Gavin Newsom's Executive Order on Aug. 14 gave the California Broadband Council a little more than four months to update the State Broadband Action Plan, which was created more than a decade ago. The group will host monthly working sessions on the plan, which is due by year's end.
The report raises concerns about how well departments will be able to break out coronavirus spending using its troubled software program, the Financial Information System for California (Fi$Cal). The program has reportedly delayed the processing of annual financial reports for departments.
Prompted by a data breach, the county has reorganized its Internal Services Division. The Computing Services Branch will now focus exclusively on cybersecurity and will be led by Jac Fagundo, a 30-year veteran of the county division.
Mike Sakamoto, CIO at the California Department of Developmental Services and a 14-year state employee, examined his strategies and focuses as CIO, as well as some of the department's initiatives.
The city's website project should include enhanced communication tools, easy-to-use content management system, user accounts and integration, and chatbot functions.
For three Northern California counties, the recent spate of wildfires have forced emergency managers to experiment with alternative alert systems when their more localized systems fail to perform properly.
"Having real-time data reduces burdensome reporting requirements and allows the Department of General Services to be more strategic in where it focuses resources on statewide contract and sourcing efforts."
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Forrester just published The Forrester Wave — Cloud Native Application Protection Solutions, an independent evaluation of 14 vendors in the CNAPP market. Wiz was named the Leader and received the highest score!
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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