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- Officials from the California Public Employees’ Retirement System and State Teachers’ Retirement System shared their priorities during an exclusive briefing Thursday.
- Both agencies are working to modernize and perfect critical systems, while keeping an eye on where new technologies can be integrated.
- Officials say they need vendor partners who understand the mission and the security sensitivity surrounding their work.
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"Californians are free-spirited by nature. They want flexibility to support themselves and their families as they see fit. So why do the Democrats in the Legislature want them all to work for corporations?"
Privacy advocates, including the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, are worried that even anonymized trip data can in some cases be linked to an individual, and that information can reveal sensitive data.
In his second State of the State address, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s one nod to tech and innovation was mention of a “unified homelessness data system.” But advocates and experts say making it work will require a monumental degree of clean data as well as state and local collaboration.
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Four years ago, Oakland established an advisory commission to look at city policies through a privacy lens. Its scope includes advising city officials about technology and conferring with tech vendors on privacy issues.
Leaders from the California Department of Technology explain how a comment made half in jest led to the rollout of a portal that could be a game-changer for government as well as individuals and industry.
The state’s most populous city will station an electric-powered fire truck at its Hollywood station. It’s one of several moves city officials are making to cut carbon emissions.
Both jobs require a high degree of technical expertise, and both have management responsibilities, as well.
The Legislative Analyst's Office issued a report Tuesday with three key IT security recommendations to the governor and the Legislature.
The role of “System Architect” is rising to the front line again, with a need to design solutions and their ecosystems. ... The system architect must analyze these questions: Who, What, When and Where?
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation successfully "cut over" late last year to a new host for its data, culminating months of complex work and bringing it a greater degree of control over its Strategic Offender Management System.
Data security, project delivery, workforce development and innovation are the key areas addressed in the recap.
Some see plans to rebuild a cellphone antenna site in San Anselmo, Calif., as a gateway to 5G and adding more antennas, which the provider has said will not happen. Others have health concerns.
Jay Song's predecessor, former Cal Fire CIO Ron Ralph, warned that "It's not a good job for the timid." Song has an award-winning background in the private and public sectors.
The department that oversees budgeting, cash flow and other financial functions is seeking an expert in business and operations, and a chief counsel who's well-versed in procurement and contracts, including IT.
The Foundation for California's Technology and Innovation Economy asks for thousands of dollars for admission to its annual policy summit with lawmakers. Who's paying? It won't say.
Six of nine companies from China scheduled to participate in the conference had canceled due to travel restrictions from China, and the remaining three will have booths staffed with U.S. workers.
Gov. Gavin Newsom's proposed 2020-2021 budget, which has more than $200 million in IT project requests, offers lawmakers chances to "exercise more oversight," according to the Legislative Analyst's Office — including possibly creating new entities to scrutinize the initiatives.
The Information Security Officer role includes responsibility for personnel, infrastructure, inside and outside threats, Internal Affairs, security awareness, security operations, and other resources.
The new executive succeeds Carla Simmons, who oversaw technology for CalOES for six years before retiring last fall. The new CIO has a background in both the public and private sectors.
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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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