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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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Government IT, with industry's help, delivered big in adapting to the first round of changes under COVID. But digital transformation is a marathon. Those who can maintain urgency will succeed in the future. Those who don’t sustain it will fade away.
Top state IT leaders, educators and industry representatives will focus on developing a workforce to better train California's students for careers in the public and private IT sectors.
Joy Bonaguro, California's second-ever chief data officer, discussed work on a statewide data strategy at the quarterly CalData meeting. Data access and consistency are vital, she said, but so-called "longitudinal" data can also play an important role in making officials better-informed.
The state's IT infrastructure is decades old and has been implicated in the shameful backlog of unemployment claims and in last year's voter-registration debacle at the Department of Motor Vehicles. However, if this is a tech issue, then why was it appropriate for the state's top public health officer to step down in the middle of a public health crisis?
Gary Renslo, chief information officer at the California Department of General Services, explains how his role has evolved with the department and discusses DGS' embrace of automation and e-signature among other initiatives; and its ongoing move to cloud.
Steven J. Steinberg -- the only California public servant newly elected to the board – is one of four new members elected to national leadership roles within URISA from across academia, industry and various levels of government.
The California Highway Patrol has been upgrading its communications capabilities this year, including new dispatch console equipment, video and audio recording gear, and antennas.
Agencies and departments recruiting for open IT positions include those dealing with consumer affairs, the military and traffic safety.
The California Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency (BCSH) and the California Department of Technology are in the proof of concept stage of a procurement for a statewide homeless data integration system, and BCSH is taking applications for four jobs to help stand up the system.
Five months into the biggest crisis of Gavin Newsom's governorship, technology problems have become major stumbling blocks to his coronavirus strategy.
The app is an expansion of the state’s Early Earthquake Warning System, rolled out in October, which incorporates “MyShake” app with the emergency alerts. It’s the first such application in the U.S.
The California Department of Education seeks input from technology vendors on potentially updating the process by which students submit applications for free and reduced-price school meals and the state reviews them.
Three key agencies seek management-level specialists to oversee projects and lead technology teams.
Scott Christman, who was an award-winning chief information officer while with the Office of Statewide Health Planning Department, is returning to state service after a brief period in the private sector.
Peter Liebert is still the volunteer commander for the California State Guard's Cyber Operations, and he put out an invitation for those who'd like to donate or work with the department.
The governor said that although Dr. Sonia Angell resigned Sunday, effective immediately, he bears ultimate responsibility when technology or human error occurs in state government.
They're not out of the statehouse yet, but two pieces of proposed legislation that would impact orientation data collection and consumer privacy have made their way to the California State Assembly Committee on Appropriations.
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With federally connected funding, City Innovate, the entity behind the Startup in Residence (STiR) program, has launched STiR Labs, with the aim of spurring government-academic collaboration.
A strike team announced by Gov. Gavin Newsom still has most of 45 days to assess services and technology at the Employment Development Department, which has been criticized for its response to residents during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here's how EDD might update the way it calculates unemployment insurance to meet a federal relief proposal, and what a strike team roadmap could contain.
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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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