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Snowflake, a Folsom-based computing firm, has named a new sales director for Public Sector West. Zach Oxman said his charge is to grow the firm's public-sector practice in California and beyond.
California state IT leaders found common ground last week with California's county CIOs at a tech conference. Shared interests include innovation, cybersecurity and maximizing how state tax dollars are spent.
California's Franchise Tax Board spent about $115 million in IT goods, services and telecoms during the 2016-17 and 2017-18 fiscal years.
The city of Sacramento is recruiting an information security officer, and the state Employment Development Department (EDD) is recruiting two IT professionals — one an IT supervisor II and the other an IT specialist II.
California's Department of Motor Vehicles spent about $6.38 billion in IT goods, services and telecoms during the 2016-17 and 2017-18 fiscal years.
The Financial Information System for California's open-data site is open for stakeholder feedback. One of the goals is to improve the state's government budget transparency.
California Department of Managed Health Care spent about $8.97 million in IT goods, services and telecom during the 2016-17 and 2017-18 fiscal years.
Los Angeles County's Human Resources Department is working to automate as many systems as possible — the hiring process, the complaint process and benefits explanations — and is planning to go live with a key component within months.
California spent $2.65 billion on IT in fiscal year 2016-17 and $7.6 billion in FY 2017-18. Here we compare the amounts spent and the top five suppliers for the two years.
Thousands of customers walked into the California Department of Motor Vehicles on Thursday unable to have their transactions processed.
The region's mass transit commission wants to spend $461 million to integrate the Clipper Card with private-sector mobility providers.
The site will house open information for the public to view.
The California Department of Technology has awarded a $36 million, 30-month contract to Maximus, a global company specializing in government services, to run the California LifeLine Program.
The letter outlines CDT's procurement authority in IT projects and updates several state administrative manual (SAM) items and statewide information management manual (SIMM) policies.
In the digital shadow of Silicon Valley, California officials still submit their records to the feds justifying billions in Medicaid spending the old-fashioned way: on paper. Stacks and stacks of it.
Agencies across the state tackled diverse government needs, from streamlining the lottery to delivering improved human services.
Digital sovereignty and empowering citizens to access government on their terms were themes in the Digital Government discussion with Deputy State CIO Chris Cruz; Scott Gregory, deputy director of the Office of Digital Innovation; and Tim Melton, OpenGov's VP of Sales for State.
San Francisco’s first chief data officer has left her position after nearly five years in the role, the city announced with a farewell blog post this week.
California county IT leaders and vendors gathered this week in San Diego for their semiannual conference, and Techwire has exclusive video highlights.
The California Department of Tax and Fee Administration has undergone major changes in the last few years, and more are on the way.
San Francisco created new criteria for permitting of app-based scooters, and in the end it chose two companies to participate in a pilot program.
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The public workforce system stands at a crossroads. Career services professionals are increasingly tasked with serving harder-to-reach jobseekers under programs like Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessment (RESEA). These front-line staff must juggle verifying unemployment benefits eligibility and providing personalized reemployment coaching, often with limited time and resources. It’s a daunting challenge that raises a critical question: How can we scale support for those who need it most? The answer may lie in Agentic AI and AI-powered agents designed to work autonomously alongside humans which could be a game-changer for workforce development.
AI is helping governments and enterprises modernize aging systems faster while strengthening cybersecurity — an approach reflected in initiatives like Kosmic Eye supporting California’s digital infrastructure.
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