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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 city is in the midst of one of the biggest IoT deployments in North America, involving cameras, microphones and sensors, that will help understand how people move through San Diego's streets.
On Wednesday, the state Department of Motor Vehicles took its informational messaging about Real ID, the federally mandated identification card, into a new area at Ontario International Airport. A pop-up field office elsewhere is another recent success.
Alex Alben, Washington state's first-ever chief privacy officer, has exited the government to head his own consultant firm in Southern California, where he hopes to advise public- and private-sector clients.
The San Jose Digital Inclusion Partnership is funded by the city’s Digital Inclusion Fund, which is capitalized by fees paid by Internet service providers. The position, which has an annual base salary of $120,000, is based in San Jose and is considered part of the California Emerging Technology Fund team.
"A small group of civic-minded designers and technologists has started CivicDMV, a community project working to re-imagine the Department of Motor Vehicles. If you’re working inside of DMV, we’d love to learn about your issues and what open projects we can develop to help solve them. If you’ve ever experienced DMV in any form and have ideas on how it can be made better, we want to hear from you."
The program was established to recognize California state and local government and education organizations for their dedication, hard work and contributions in information technology. All government and education officials, executives and staff in California are invited to submit nominations. An Evaluation Committee will review submissions and select recipients.
The successful candidate will ensure adherence to the department’s business and technology vision, goals and objectives, coordination of activities within the unit, and the applicable responsibilities/activities with the rest of the FI$Cal team.
With highly intelligent traffic signals on major 10-lane arterial roads, the county has been using cloud technology and edge computing to control the flow of traffic for the benefit of cars, bicycles and pedestrians.
The state Department of Conservation has elevated Wendy Weaver, its acting CIO of more than two months, to be the agency's new chief information officer, officials confirmed to Techwire.
The Pepperdine School of Public Policy and the Los Angeles Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC) will form an “innovative academic enterprise,” the two entities announced on Monday.
Mike Hawkins has served as vice president of the San Diego Chapter of the International Association of Microsoft Certified Partners. He's also been active in the Information Systems Security Association as well as the California Educational Technology Professionals Association.
While Amazon Web Services has long held the lead in the area it pioneered, Microsoft's Azure has been gaining ground in recent years.
While the plan has gained support from privacy advocates, including the American Civil Liberties Union, some law enforcement groups worry that the bill would make it more difficult for officers to do their job and crack down on criminals.
“We had to provide the financials, our purpose, what we were trying to accomplish. ... It was personal — what I do in the community, things like that.”
The California Medicaid Management Information System “is a 30-year-old legacy system consisting of over 90 applications, written in seven computer languages, managed through five different software version management tools, five data management systems, and hosted across three major hardware architectures that include mainframe, UNIX and Windows computer servers."
He'll focus on "accelerating the digital sales transformation of enterprise, mid-market and government organizations."
State Sen. Bob Hertzberg, D-Van Nuys, a co-author of last year's California Consumer Privacy Act, discussed Gov. Gavin Newsom's plan for a "data dividend." The lawmaker said the idea needs careful consideration to ensure a sufficient return on residents' data and privacy.
The Department of Motor Vehicles will be answering viewers' phoned-in questions today between 4 and 7 p.m., during the news broadcasts on Sacramento's KCRA (Channel 3).
"Calling all crazy-awesome cybersecurity firms!" says a tweet from the city's Chief Information Officer Rob Lloyd. "San Jose has released its RFP for Advanced Cybersecurity Products and Services."
After hearing from representatives of law enforcement and civil liberties groups, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to put a moratorium on the municipal use of facial recognition technology. Their city is the first in the country to do so.
A partnership between Los Angeles County, Presidio and Amazon Web Services has helped automate response to incoming calls for service, reducing hold and wait times and helping measure customer satisfaction.
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