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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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A linchpin state office and a coastal city are among the state and local agencies seeking to fill important IT positions, including two C-level jobs.
"The information recorded by this technology must be available such that upon notification of an employee’s positive COVID-19 case, the district’s staff can immediately perform contact tracing investigation. The technology must include a responsive dashboard for use by the district’s management."
In a Request for Qualifications issued Aug. 19, the city seeks to pre-qualify vendors whose services can then be used by IT and other departments in situations that call for temporary work and "unique skill sets in various aspects" of IT and cloud computing.
“The system is slower than it should be, and it means more people are going to get sick and die," said Bruce Pomer, a public health expert and chief lobbyist for the California Association of Public Health Laboratory Directors. "The lifeblood of public health is data.”
ProsperLA is designed to solicit and evaluate ideas on how to streamline the county's business operations and save money. Suggestions are welcome from the county's 113,000 employees — or any of its other 10 million-plus residents.
Two bulwark fiscal committees, the Assembly Committee on Appropriations and its counterpart, the California state Senate Standing Committee on Appropriations, met a legislative deadline Friday by moving some tech legislation forward and setting others aside. Here's how several pieces of technology, data and privacy legislation fared.
The awards recognize California state and local government and education organizations for their contributions in IT. All government and education officials, executives and staff in California are invited to submit nominations.
Hours before the companies planned to go offline, California’s 1st District of Court of Appeal issued a stay on an order that would have forced them to comply immediately with a labor law that requires businesses to give employment benefits to more workers rather than classify them as independent contractors.
The 2020 Virtual Summit is hosted by California State University, Sacramento, in conjunction with the California Department of Technology, the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, the California Military Department and the California Highway Patrol. They are the "core four" agencies that target computer crime in California.
Jason Piccione, chief information officer and deputy director of the Office of Information Services at the California Department of Consumer Affairs, discusses business modernizations in a time of reduced budgets, and positive changes to procurement.
The state Department of Water Resources kept it largely local in the first half of 2020, with its five-largest contracts for IT goods going to companies based in the Sacramento area.
One of the positions is classified as a Career Executive Assignment, and the application deadline for another is Friday.
From closing the digital divide to fixing tech woes in COVID-19 reporting and at the California Employment Development Department, state lawmakers — who face a looming legislative deadline — haven't been shy about sharing their thoughts on Twitter.
"It isn’t difficult to imagine how different the Employment Development Department might be today if it actively prioritized and responded to the needs of Californians, especially in times of economic distress such as this," the Little Hoover Commission says. It urges a more customer-centric system, which it's been advocating for years.
The chief information officer for one of the nation's largest cities, while acknowledging the devastation and loss from the COVID-19 pandemic, sees the possibility of long-term gains in the delivery of government services. "Later in our careers, we’re all going to look back on this and be very proud of the way people have stepped up," he said.
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"Unfortunately, the failings of the bullet train ... are also emblematic of a larger malaise: the erosion of competence in a state government that once prided itself on doing big things well," CalMatters columnist Dan Walters writes.
The California departments of Technology and Public Health seek “innovative technology solutions to help improve the COVID-19 Disease Reporting System for COVID-19 lab results,” the agencies said in a notice released last week. Their needs include improving the accuracy, completeness and de-duplication of patient data that currently arrives in various formats from hundreds of submitters.
Departments and agencies are seeking developers, managers and supervisors in the IT field. Application deadlines for these positions are this month.
The Executive Order, which sets a minimum broadband goal of 100 megabits per second download speed for state agencies under Newsom’s authority, directs several departments to “regularly convene private-sector companies in an effort to understand and predict current and future demand for broadband."
Patty Roze began with Verizon 20 years ago as a Business Account Executive, rising through the ranks in various individual contributor and leadership roles selling into government and large enterprise customers.
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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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