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The California Department of Technology and the Franchise Tax Board are both looking for leadership for critical technology programs.
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The program, a public-private partnership called the first of its kind, aims to retrain state staffers in non-IT positions for three areas of mainframe work, as employees there retire.
Responding to public outcry, the California Public Utilities Commission wants to know why vital cellphone service failed residents during wildfires and public safety power shut-offs in October.
Challenged by Gov. Gavin Newsom to modernize, and facing a looming federal deadline, one of the state's best-known agencies is seeing results from ongoing tech upgrades and resident engagement.
The Department of Technology executive's former responsibilities included helping shepherd a "$140 million organizational portfolio of projects, programs, and operations across five strategic initiatives," she said on LinkedIn. Her new position will also center on technology.
At a public forum, critics questioned how data collected might be used; and who would have oversight of the information, and access to it.
The deployment, which is still ongoing, is expected to yield monetary and time savings, and is something of a shift from an on-premise-first emphasis.
Ann Dunkin, chief information officer at Santa Clara County, discussed "Women in IT" at a recent gathering of California county IT leaders near Lake Tahoe. Afterward, she weighed the public sector's attributes in a conversation with Techwire.
Local and state IT leaders and GIS officials discussed strategies for making the best use of GIS during power shutoffs, fires and other large events, at a gathering of California county IT chiefs.
The ride-share company’s subsidiary Jump has sought a hearing, but its bikes and scooters will continue to be available until a city officer considers the matter.
"The challenge will be leveraging the existing technology the state already uses to make this happen," state Chief Technology Innovation Officer Scott Gregory said. "So we, the Department of Technology, will leverage a Software-as-a-Service technology provided by Esri to not only stitch the information together, but to bring the information to the user in a way that’s meaningful."
A candidate for city attorney, technology privacy advocates and city council members have expressed concerns about ensuring information collected by the streetlights is properly collected, secured and managed.
The California Department of Transportation, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the University of California at Berkeley’s Institute of Transportation Studies and four Southern California cities are among the agencies working together to improve traffic on one Southland freeway.
Seeking deep digital change, officials in Southern California's Carlsbad issued a request for qualifications, in an effort to be less prescriptive and simply state their challenge for technology providers to consider.
The longtime executive had worked at her city for almost seven years, in a variety of innovation positions.
The IT veteran's previous responsibilities included “hiring and performance management, territory plans, pipeline management, forecasting and ownership of SLED/state contracts.” His new role reflects the company's continued investment in California state and local.
Technologists teamed up to present proposals and proofs of concept to a team of judges, who "invested" in some of the teams' ideas. The idea was to spur creativity among the county IT team and to emphasize agile methodology in IT innovation.
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The aggregated platform will stitch together various agencies' resources, making GIS mapping data available to state and local government as well as businesses and individuals. The driver behind the project is Scott Gregory, the state’s Chief Technology Innovation Officer and Geographic Information Officer, who says the new portal is "going to be rocket fuel."
During the PG&E outages, several government systems had to rely on generator backups to function properly for the duration. Although alternative power sources like generators are said to be designed for uninterrupted service, it is known that they can fail, just as any other motorized vehicle or machine, creating a single point of failure with the potential for full-scale resource outages. This is not a solution that will withstand years of outages.
“We are not aware of anything different driving these openings, other than standard turnover,” said Andrew LaMar, deputy communications director for the California Department of Human Resources.
"Even with our transparency site displaying data from almost all FI$Cal departments, there is more we can do. That wealth of data is of limited benefit if people don’t understand the best ways to view and access it. ... We want to add an application program interface into Open FI$Cal to allow outside websites and other applications to automatically upload the data as soon as it enters Open FI$Cal each month."
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