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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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Jordan Sun brings varied experience in the private and public sectors, from health care and finance to diplomacy and the military, to help the city of San Jose use technology to recover economically and grow in a way that’s equitable.
Al Wanger, chief information officer at the California Coastal Commission, discusses his role, going digital at an agency that leaned heavily on paper, and a key systems integration project.
Two purchases of $500,000 each account for much of the nearly $1.7 million that the state technology agency spent in June, and likely reflect the ongoing technology modernization, move to digitization and its growing work with data.
California's new 2020-2021 Fiscal Year state budget was crafted as the state's economic fortunes virtually reversed themselves when the COVID-19 pandemic took hold this spring. But, as e.Republic officials said at a recent Techwire Industry Briefing, the budget still offers opportunity to the tech and innovation sectors, and reflects a rethinking on how government could be transformed.
Key players in the state's Digital Web Services Network updated almost 150 webinar attendees on how agencies and departments are using and sharing data in new ways, some of which are a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic that has upended the state’s economy and innovation plans.
State and local election officials in California and across the country expect they’ll need to defend voters against potentially devastating and widespread disinformation attacks that could suppress turnout and sow doubt in November’s results.
The California Department of Technology cut its 2020-2021 Fiscal Year budget as the state grapples with an historic downturn brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, but during the previous fiscal year it had increased its budget to account for customer needs and an ongoing technology modernization.
Ajita Talwalker Menon, who had been Calbright's acting president since February, served in the Obama White House as special assistant to the president for higher education and also served as a senior policy adviser for higher education in the U.S. Department of Higher Education.
“Would you be interested in participating in the design, programming, and implementing features for this very website you are visiting?” the job posting asks. “If so, we may have the job for you!”
In a major and possibly long-running project, the California Department of Developmental Services seeks respondents to stand up a solution that will be the “primary tool” the state uses to support “federal reimbursement programs that recover federal dollars for expenditures associated with qualified services provided to individuals with developmental disabilities.”
Today's briefing will cover what’s included in the state budget, how much will go to technology spending, what technologies the state plans to invest in, and how the decreased budget will affect IT spending. It starts at 11 a.m.
The recruitments are being done by some high-profile agencies and departments, including the Department of Technology, the Employment Development Department and the Department of Managed Health Care, among others.
California’s electrical grid is getting cleaner, but it is still not well-positioned to deal with a changing climate with its web of decades-old poles and wires. Fortunately, a suite of established and emerging technologies can effectively advance the dual goals of reliability and decarbonization.
A linchpin state agency is making progress in its search for a new IT leader, roughly three months after the application deadline.
The stakes were high when the Judicial Council of California issued an RFP a couple of years ago for a disaster recovery and data backup solution for the state’s courts. Criminal data and case files are not just job-critical — for many in the system, they’re life-critical. Couple that high-risk need with an extremely long, challenging RFP process that involved nearly 30 vendors, and this was a recipe for a potentially stressful experience.
“From the beginning, we envisioned a user-centered and agile approach,” California State Library portal project manager Shivani Bose-Varela told Techwire. “We knew we had less than a year from receiving funding in the state budget to being able to meet the statutory deadline and that this project would never succeed without an incredible amount of feedback and buy-in from stakeholders.”
State legislators won't return from recess until July 27 but they, and the state, have been active on Twitter with updates on legislation and accomplishments in tech.
The only way to know whether a program's findings are accurate enough to be used as evidence in court, some say, is to examine its source code for bias and inaccuracy. But companies that sell such software to law enforcement organizations often state in court that their programs are trade secrets.
Michael Berman, chief information officer for the California State University system, explains how his role as a system CIO differs from that of CIO at one of 23 CSU campuses, and discusses how officials plan to evaluate potential strategies for an IT services consolidation.
The challenge of running an election in a region where almost 1 million voters will be casting ballots at almost 1,000 vote centers over 11 days is a stout one, and it has many moving parts involving logistics, communication, security, regulations and, not least, technology.
According to Google Cloud’s blog, the Assured Workloads for Government service is being privately beta tested now and is planned for general release at an unspecified date this fall. The basic pitch is that the service will help governments move their workloads to the cloud in a way that meets compliance requirements without sacrificing functionality.
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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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