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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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She will remain on in an advisory capacity as two senior leaders from within take over as co-interim CEOs. The organization’s search for a permanent CEO will continue with a goal of finishing by the end of the year.
The positions the city is filling include a visual designer, a senior UX designer, a senior product strategist, a Drupal engineer, and a senior Web engineer. All positions, of course, will be based in San Francisco.
About eight weeks has passed since the three-month sprint began to transform Ca.gov, the state's website. Following their first release, leaders and developers on the Alpha project discussed some of their discoveries as they've addressed needs and brought user stories to life.
He'll be managing data center digital transformation strategies for the state of California, the Legislature and the state's largest agencies.
The governor named secretaries of the Government Operations Agency and of the Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency, and a chief digital transformation officer for the Department of Motor Vehicles.
Until now, the state had no tool to track sexual harassment allegations across the state’s roughly 150 departments. CalHR developed the tool and started training people how to use it in the fall.
Although Latinas in Tech concentrates on its core membership, said Sacramento Valley chapter chair Cruz Nieto, “We also market to employers looking to diversify their workforce, so we have both men and women attending to support our efforts.”
Both are key stakeholder positions with responsibilities that include managing others and advising policy-makers.
For the past three decades, Internet service providers, and their predecessors, phone companies, have successfully waged a war to deregulate their industry. Regulation, they argue, will stifle innovation. That may have been true 30 years ago. But now, the only innovation we see is ISPs coming up with new ways to charge you more while delivering less.
Strong joined Dell from Hewlett-Packard and then HP, where he spent more than 11 years in roles including sales support specialist, partner business manager and managed print services sales for SLED, servicing the state.
The Judicial Council of California’s Facility Services Office is looking for a vendor to take part in a new Integrated Workplace Management System (IWMS) Project, to deliver modern IT capabilities that work well with existing hardware and software.
Among startups that provide much of tech innovation, things are still moving slowly in California's efforts to get a handle on wildfires. That's partly a lingering hangover from a "cleantech" investment bust almost a decade ago.
Both positions include management responsibilities, and the application deadlines for both are within the next two weeks.
In his proposed 2020-2021 Fiscal Year state budget, Gov. Gavin Newsom calls for spending $2.4 million to study creation of a new online system that would aggregate 11 legacy firearms IT systems.
Gov. Newsom’s state Office of Digital Innovation seeks to improve the experience of interacting with government. Its two main projects are an update of the state’s primary website and a portal that organizes data in new ways.
Industry analysts say the rapidly growing demand for freer exchange of health-care information is creating an electronic health record market estimated to reach $38 billion by 2025.
An occasional collection of news nuggets from near and far, gathered by the Techwire team.
Candidates should have familiarity with project management; risk assessment and mitigation; facilitation and negotiation; and promoting collaboration among diverse stakeholders, among other requirements.
The California Consumer Privacy Act is widely considered to be the first in a tide of similar state laws. That means companies will need to figure out how to comply with multiple laws and still do business effectively.
In two RFPs, the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services seeks contractors to increase use of the statewide MyShake earthquake early warning app; and to study the feasibility of a statewide medical information website.
Using CityBase software, the consolidated city-county redesigned its whole application process around the user experience. It could be a template for future digital services.
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