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According to sources inside and outside of state government, departments are being asked to identify cuts of 10 percent or more. While the veil of secrecy raises alarm bells for some, the practice is nothing new during budget crunches.
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State departments in California have spent up to $7.6 billion on IT purchases.
Risk-free electronic voting will never happen, but there are measures states and localities can take to reduce the danger.
Los Angeles County officials have launched a program that combines various technologies to help find people with autism, Alzheimer’s disease or dementia who may wander off and go missing. The program, called L.A. Found, will make use of bracelets that can be tracked through radio frequency by sheriff’s deputies.
Pondera Solutions has added a seventh member to its board of directors — a longtime business executive who's also a professor at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.
Fiscal year 2017-18 included over 5,000 purchase orders for telecom and IT services. In that year, more than $7 billion was spent in total on those two categories combined.
Sonoma County is preparing to replace its aging voting system next year, a highly anticipated technological upgrade expected to make ballot counting faster and more efficient while still keeping the entire process secure from would-be hackers. Officials will roll out the new technology for use in a smaller local election as early as March, following the Board of Supervisors’ vote last month to spend at least $2 million on the upgrade.
The state is advertising and recruiting for two key IT leadership positions, and application deadlines for both are coming up soon.
The platform, which is the work of the Santa Clara County Health Department, gives its users an online tool they can use to access health data at a near-granular level, broken down by city and neighborhood.
Gordon Feller, founder of Meeting of the Minds, a nonprofit seeking to educate public-sector leaders on urban innovations, spoke on the phone with Techwire about how cities can learn from each other.
A veteran of the U.S. Army and state government IT management who founded his own Elk Grove-based company has been named president and chief executive officer of Amerit Consulting, a national staffing and consulting firm based in San Ramon.
An IT veteran of various state government departments, most recently including the California Department of Technology, has been appointed operations project manager for the California Complete Count Census by Gov. Jerry Brown.
Officials say the errors were limited to 23,000 of the 1.4 million voter registration files sent to election offices between late April, when California's new automated "motor-voter" system went into effect, and early August. Californians who were affected will soon receive notifications in the mail instructing them to check their voter registration status.
The "world’s largest society of educational and academic computer scientists" recognized the project, which was co-led by UC Berkeley assistant professor in statistics, Fernando Perez.
These five departments spent the most on IT services and telecoms in the last quarter of the fiscal year 2017-18.
By Sunday night, I watched a pink-tinged sunset from a ridge looking down on Tahoe Basin and waited for my camp stove to boil dinner. I was able to rest after the trek over granite trail and read Jurassic Park, appropriate for being surrounded by forest and not much else.
California lawmakers this year stood firm on consumer protections, adopting bills to give Californians more protection online, shielding their personal data and bolstering privacy rights.
San Francisco CIO Krista Canellakis offers some tips for newcomers as well as insights into the STiR projects her jurisdiction will be working on this year.
Two bills from the state Legislature, one of which is headed to the governor's desk, would convene a working group on blockchain technology and conduct a private-sector use case if approved.
AB 1906 would require smart devices to include baked-in security measures; these devices include virtual assistants, connected doorbells and locks, and Wi-Fi-enabled climate controls.
Red River, a technology transformation company, has announced that Steven Galvez will direct the sales and business development of consulting services in California and the neighboring Western states.
The crypto world has now expanded into yet another unexpected arena: The Sacramento Kings have announced that they plan to begin mining cryptocurrency through a partnership with MiningStore.com, a provider of crypto-mining hardware.
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