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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 California Department of Consumer Affairs is part of the vanguard of state government departments using containers. At Techwire's request, DCA wrote this "deep dive" into container technology — what it is, how it can speed efficiency in government as well as the private sector, and how it might even help bridge the gap between Dev and Ops.
Passengers riding Bay Area Rapid Transit trains may be better protected in the event of an earthquake after the agency on Monday rolled out a newly upgraded earthquake alert system.
The Startup in Residence Program (STiR) is now open for applications from private-sector entrepreneurs.
As such, STiR’s website has posted its annual list of civic challenges, which this year includes more than 80 potential use cases from 28 government partners, including cities, counties, states and even regional transit organizations — many in California.
It was standing room only in Verizon's social-engineering hack activity at Tuesday's Cybersecurity Education Summit.
Two of the state’s top authorities on cybersecurity were among 1,200 government and industry people who attended Tuesday’s Cybersecurity Education Summit in Sacramento. Amid breakout sessions, guest speakers and workshops, state Chief Information Security Officer Peter Liebert and Chief Scott Howland, the CIO of the California Highway Patrol, took a few minutes to talk with Techwire about the day’s takeaways.
If Californians are not already familiar with the details of electric cars, a new multimillion-dollar ad campaign wants to change that. Veloz, a nonprofit alliance of carmakers, electric utilities, policymakers and others, will launch the informational campaign, known as Electric For All, to raise awareness about electric vehicles in the state.
Roseville, a municipality of more than 135,000 people, has begun work on three jurisdiction-wide Smart City Initiatives.
Graphic: The California Department of Transportation spent about $62.5 million for IT goods, services and telecoms during the 2016-17 and 2017-18 fiscal years.
An internal audit from the California Department of Motor Vehicles released Monday shows that about 1,500 customers may have been improperly registered to vote.
Video: California's new Appeals Case Management System is six weeks early, and still has optimizations to complete, but is on track and under budget.
The new offerings were announced Friday and include IaaS and PaaS Commercial and Government Cloud services with Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, and IaaS Government Cloud with IBM.
A statewide coalition is calling on Bay Area cities and counties to protect the privacy of immigrants by boycotting tech companies that provide data sharing services to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The California Department of Technology is hosting a Vendor Forum next Friday in Sacramento, and state CIO Amy Tong and Deputy CIO Chris Cruz will be among the speakers. Space is limited and reservations are strongly recommended.
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife is looking for ways to use technology to negate the damage done by nutria, an invasive species that's chewing its way through California. One solution is using cameras and GIS technology to count how many of the rodents are in an area.
Four state government agencies and California State University, Sacramento, are teaming up to present a Cybersecurity Education Summit on Tuesday. The event will gather experts and leaders from government, industry and academia to spread awareness of cyberthreats and to "engage, inform, train and empower" Californians to avoid cyberthreats.
State lawmakers learned Thursday that the embattled agency could soon face a dramatic increase in customers coming in for federally mandated Real ID cards. Since the program's implementation in January, the DMV has issued 1.5 million Real ID cards. But the agency expects that more than 15 times that many — an estimated 23.5 million — have yet to be issued by Oct.1, 2020.
In the coming years, the public library in San Leandro could have more than just books and movies to lend out: Patrons may also be able to check out a mobile Wi-Fi hot-spot device. The plan to become a smarter city includes moves like upgrading traffic signals to the latest intelligent tech to better manage traffic, as well as a bevy of sensors and cameras to enhance public safety.
California climbed from a B+ in 2016 to an A- in this year’s Digital States Survey for its continued efforts to manage a vast population and massive economy with the help of strong tech initiatives.
Child Welfare Digital Services, a project of the Office of Systems Integration in the California Health and Human Services Agency, has named a new director of Product Development.
Consumer cellphones nationwide today will buzz with two warnings from federal authorities. These are only tests.
First it was the Real ID, which spawned soul-sucking lines out the door at DMV offices up and down the Golden State. Now comes a warning that certain unscrupulous online operators have set up websites that charge customers bogus fees to to complete the electronic driver license and ID card application.
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