News
Top Story
The California Department of Technology and the Franchise Tax Board are both looking for leadership for critical technology programs.
News
Three highly influential state government departments are recruiting for IT professionals.
Techwire will not publish a newsletter Thursday or Friday in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday. The newsletter will resume Monday morning.
A state IT reclassification process that did away with 36 job classifications and created nine new ones has essentially one step remaining, after about 22 months.
"Tech vendors should stop creating, designing, and marketing their own smart city visions. Just stop. Instead, they should collaborate with public-sector agencies and understand what they truly need and then help them to develop powerful technology and smart city visions of their own, utilizing technology to achieve those goals."
The phone companies noted that PG&E outages have been unprecedented and there was little advance warning to know which communities would be affected. And because the situation was fluid — with cell towers losing and gaining service — it was impractical to provide a list of downed services, they added.
It’s envisioned as a collaboration between state agencies and local entities that may one day be released to the public.
The county's Department of Auditor Controller is looking for mobility solutions and a new tax system. The Probation Department's focus is on improving the experience for employees as well as juveniles.
In a positive outcome of the 2017 wildfire season, Sonoma County, which serves roughly half a million residents with around 4,200 employees, has worked with IBM to stand up technology that will do a better job of providing services to those at risk. The initiative has won its third award this year.
The passage of IoT device security legislation in California signals the start of a specific legal framework governing IoT. In view of the growing concern over IoT device security at both the state and federal level, more legislation is likely to follow, with the potential for stricter minimum security standards in the future.
Companies said most sites have batteries or generators, and some even have both, but they could last anywhere from two hours to a week. And many said it was logistically impossible or unsafe to deploy or refuel gas generators.
Andrell Bower, who joined the city of San Diego's Performance and Analytics Department five years ago, is one of the few women to hold a similar position for a major U.S. municipality.
The competition's key concepts include, “Enable and accelerate the countywide movement to combat and prevent homelessness," "Think boldly and reimagine service delivery," and "Keep an open mind to the possibilities."
The new assistant deputy director will lead the staff in academy planning and execution and will lead the effort in re-establishing the mentoring program at CDT. He will take on the internal focus at the Office of Professional Development, freeing Deputy Director Brenda Bridges Cruz to work on apprenticeships, workforce development and the education pipeline.
Today's webinar will review how two companies worked with a senior IT analyst for Placer County government to enhance a chatbot. The end result was a “conversational AI solution” that would allow the public to interact with county government “in a more interactive, modern and conversational manner.”
The position is a Career Executive Assignment (CEA), and the responsibilities include oversight of a new application, Cal-E-Force, as well as oversight of the Technical Branch of the agency. This includes Information and Technology; Data Analytics; Website Monitoring and Metrics; Planning and Research; Application and Assessment; and Program Projects.
The incumbent has full administrative responsibility for organizing, planning, coordinating, directing and controlling all activities associated with server implementations in support of DMHC operations. The manager also oversees support staff and infrastructure at all three DMHC office locations — the downtown Sacramento headquarters, the Rancho Cordova data center and the Los Angeles field office.
"Mayors and other local leaders throughout California have banded together to publicly urge exploration of an alternative model: a customer-owned utility."
The survey, which is available online, asks members to consider such concepts as security, governance, privacy, utility, the political climate, and the public’s understanding and acceptance of blockchain as a technology. It also boldly lays out the importance of blockchain in the state’s goal of maintaining California’s primacy in the tech industry.
The survey honors cities in five population classifications: 500,000 or more; 250,000 to 499,999; 125,000 to 249,999; 75,000 to 124,999; and fewer than 75,000. Within those categories, nine California cities placed in the top 10.
The IT Manager I has direct oversight of technical staff as well as various contract staff and represents the department in dealings with state control agencies.
State technology department leaders addressed tech company representatives and answered questions in Sacramento on current and upcoming initiatives, as well as policy updates.
Contributed
Insights from Prodigy Consulting on preparing Microsoft 365 environments for Copilot through data governance, user training and change management.
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!
Upcoming Events
A curated event built for State of California employees!
Through demos, discussions and customer stories, the series shows how IBM can help enterprises achieve faster outcomes, reduce complexity and innovate responsibly at scale.
