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John Roussel, the driving force behind the California Department of Public Health’s IT operations, is retiring at the end of April. His departure punctuates a more than two-decade career in state IT.
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The Coachella Valley Water District has updated its IT infrastructure, one aspect of a $16 million capital improvement plan aimed at improving data management, simplifying payments and boosting conservation.
The department is working on Voting Solutions for All People (VSAP), an initiative designed to expand voter access while strengthening ballot security and transitioning from traditional local precincts to regional voting centers. To that end, the IT department is working on a host of short- to medium-term priorities.
GovOps' Batjer and CDT's Tong praised the longtime IT leader for his leadership and 'sound counsel.'
Waymo and Cruise, the leaders in the race to make robot cars a widespread reality, saw their vehicles improve at handling themselves on the road in 2018, according to reports that they submitted to California regulators. But auto industry leaders — even ones at self-driving companies — have started walking back their rosy forecasts.
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Governor, mayors of Fresno, Merced and Bakersfield meet to talk about controversial project's future.
The current Medi-Cal IT infrastructure is over 30 years old. It follows the same storyline you read again and again around government IT modernization: The legacy system is inflexible and difficult to extend; it runs on costly, aging infrastructure; and the notion of modernization feels big, risky and expensive.
San Jose formally launched its digital inclusion fund, the city's first, and believed to be the largest of its kind in the nation. It aims to bridge the city's digital divide over the next 10 years with "real-time" accomplishments that can help connect the roughly 9 percent of the city's population who don't have reliable high-speed Internet.
Batjer, Tong praise the tech exec's leadership and vision in guiding the state IT apparatus through changes.
In the 2018 calendar year, the California Department of Technology's Security Operations Center rooted out and/or rebuffed hundreds of millions of cyberattacks, cybersecurity threats and other "security incidents" designed to wreak havoc on the state's tech infrastructure. Here's a look.
California Secretary of State Alex Padilla was testifying today in Washington, D.C., about election security. The House Committee on Homeland Security is hearing from a half-dozen experts during the hearing, called “Defending Our Democracy: Building Partnerships to Protect America’s Election.”
Gov. Gavin Newsom's proposal to let Californians share the wealth generated by their data hasn't been publicly fleshed out yet.
Officials at the California Department of Technology and the California High-Speed Rail Authority said they were "excited" and "eager," respectively, to work with Gov. Gavin Newsom on technology initiatives and improving accountability, following his first State of the State address.
Gov. Gavin Newsom, who was sworn in just one month ago, is delivering his first State of the State speech as governor today, and Techwire will have breaking coverage. Newsom's address is scheduled for 11 a.m. in the Assembly Chamber, and Techwire will email Insiders an extra mid-afternoon report recapping the speech.
The city of Sacramento, which is joining San Francisco-based Startup in Residence (STiR) for the first time, heard from 63 potential private-sector partners and selected two, in Australia and Chicago, with which to work on civic challenges.
The Camp Fire took a steep toll not only in lives, but also in livelihoods. But thanks to relationships among representatives of academia, state government and the private sector, getting assistance to fire-affected businesses is on track.
In his first State of the State address, Gov. Gavin Newsom didn't lean heavily on technology and innovation, but his comments gave some indication of how new data and workforce initiatives might be informed by tech.
The hearing before the House Financial Services Committee will cover the challenges that cannabis businesses face in securing accounts and credit lines from banks that are wary of taking on clients with ties to a federally banned substance.
Gov. Gavin Newsom, who was sworn in just one month ago, will deliver his first State of the State speech as governor Tuesday, and Techwire will have breaking coverage.
This session of Congress may be the best chance in years to pass meaningful data privacy legislation — one motivated by California lawmakers' passage last year of a data privacy law, paired with a similar measure enacted by the European Union.
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