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Liana Bailey-Crimmins, CIO and director of the California Department of Technology, announced late Friday afternoon that she is leaving the role.
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Commentary: Many experts from government and industry say that although California wasn't fully ready to adopt an agile approach, that shouldn’t stop officials from moving forward.
The city of San Jose announced agreements with AT&T, Verizon and Mobilitie that will bring better cell and Internet service, hundreds of miles of fiber and millions of dollars in private-sector investment.
Beginning Monday, Techwire will publish a variety of stories examining several aspects of the transition from Waterfall methodology to the Agile approach. These pieces will include insiders' commentaries, industry voices and some nuggets of news related to one of the most significant procedural and philosophical changes to affect state IT governance in years.
The Pentagon's enthusiasm to build tech partnerships in Silicon Valley is unlikely to cool, analysts say, despite the employee pushback that recently led Google to not renew a contract that allowed the military to use artificial intelligence tools to analyze drone footage.
FI$Cal, California’s enterprise resource planning program, is planning a data transparency site that will include expenditure data from across the state.
Rebecca Friedman of e.Republic has been named Media Services Director for Los Angeles County's Internal Services Department. She has been National Conference Director for e.Republic in the Techwire and Government Technology divisions, producing events in California and 11 other states during almost five years with the company.
Among the small field of tech-related ballot proposals and ballot measures nationwide in 2018, a dogfight over privacy issues may erupt come June 25.
An effective three-minute YouTube video shows how one California county's government leaders teamed up with Google to make better matches between foster kids and families. The keys were data, algorithms and the cloud.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, reportedly considering a presidential run in 2020, is the guest in a new podcast hosted by Cathilea Robinett, president of e.Republic. This episode of "In the Arena" is part of a new series of Governing magazine podcasts about public leadership.
Federal health officials are investigating an April data breach that affected 55,947 patients of Dignity Health, a major health system headquartered in San Francisco that operates 39 hospitals and 400 care centers in California, Nevada and Arizona.
Here are a few links to some interesting articles and features we've come across recently as we hunt and gather news of interest to the gov tech community.
The California Department of Social Services' Office of Foster Care Ombudsman is in its first few weeks of using a new platform to manage its complaint system.
Commentary: The ethics of artificial intelligence and machine learning are among the principles that government must keep in mind as it explores new uses for these applications, says IT veteran Robbie Schmidt.
The Internet didn't crash and burn Monday as the Federal Communications Commission's old net neutrality rules officially expired, yet the years-long debate remained far from settled.
The city of Riverside has promoted its longtime chief innovation officer to an assistant city manager's position, underscoring the city's growing emphasis on IT in government.
The state's Child Welfare Digital Services project has completed its second release of tools that are a key part its CWS-CARES system, which is designed to replace the legacy system.
Techwire's staff writes daily, but on our way to finding items of interest for you to read about, we also read a lot of stories. Here are some of the pieces we thought you would find interesting.
The only large-scale car manufacturer in California argues that doing business in the state is hard enough without a fast-developing labor regulation backed by organizations that want to unionize its Fremont plant.
Election officials haven't even finished counting the votes from Tuesday's primary, but the campaign has already begun for the November general election.
California legislation can affect multiple parts of the technology industry.
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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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