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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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The California Independent System Operator, the entity that oversees the state’s wholesale energy transmission grid, is giving IT developers a place to experiment — and some tools and a little guidance to go with it.
Fourteen municipal IT specialists will be Certified Government Chief Information Officers when their current class graduates in June.
'In terms of millennials coming in, I think they have so much opportunity to see what they’re interested in.'
State IT workers attended a workshop the other day, "From Idea to App in 1 Day," in which they learned "how to create custom applications in the cloud without needing to write any code." The class was offered for free to state government employees by Salesforce as part of its Platform Developer Day. It described the class this way: "This workshop will walk the attendee through creating an example cloud-based application. We’ll start with data models, work through adding automation logic, viewing reports/dashboards, and setting up security. This is a workshop with hands-on exercises and is available to all agencies and departments."
Brown appointee has background as CIO, IT director.
California Secretary of State Alex Padilla's office is working with a social media network to encourage Californians to vote and to make it easier to do so. It's the first time the network has partnered with a secretary of state's office.
As the state government has been working to streamline business processes, replacing the budgeting system used in every department and consolidating job titles, it has also been working to streamline those changes.
Brian Wong, a veteran of state service who’s now a deputy director/CIO, offers his take on his mission, his priorities and his preferences in an exclusive interview with Techwire.
Two months ago, Accela launched a “Center of Expertise” to help the public sector work better. In California, that means, among other things, helping the state regulate cannabis sales and short-term residential rentals. Now Accela is launching “out-of-the-box” software products for those two industries.
Senate Bill 821, which deals with emergency notification, would give counties the authority to include residents in the system unless they opted out.
Google says a majority of state and local government websites aren’t doing enough to protect the people visiting them. Starting in July, that browser is going to start prominently telling those users that the sites they’re visiting aren’t secure — and that includes Los Angeles’ and San Diego’s.
With Caltrans looking at billions of dollars in state revenue in the coming decade, the transportation department is hiring — and that includes IT.
The CIO Academy's Hall of Fame 2018 inductee, Carlos Ramos, served as California's state CIO for five years. Ramos has since retired from state service and is working to help bring innovative solutions to the public sector. Techwire asked him about what he's doing and what he has planned.
A handful of career-level positions — including Deputy Director — are open in state government, including a Deputy Director position in the Office of Systems Integration project within California Health and Human Services’ Child Welfare Digital Services.
The president of AT&T California tells state lawmakers that his company will meet the challenges of implementing FirstNet partially through the use of subcontractors and interoperability.
Longtime gov tech sales executive Sherri Conover has joined ForgeRock as major account executive for State, Local and Education (SLED) covering the West. Conover brings more than 25 years' experience in government sales and sales management experience.
During last week's two-day California CIO Academy, held in Sacramento under the auspices of Techwire sister publication Government Technology, our team conducted brief video interviews with IT leaders in state government. Today's interview features Scott Christman, deputy director and chief information officer for the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development.
The three-tiered governance principle for state IT — the project level, the program level, and the enterprise level — is essential for success, says the state Franchise Tax Board's chief technologist. “You need governance at all three levels for success."
Wednesday’s legislative hearing, “Ready or Not: Emergency Communications Networks in the Face of Wildfires, Mudslides, and Public Safety,” presented information on FirstNet, highlighted successful technology communication and discussed challenges still to come.
California’s election systems are secure, but more money is needed to upgrade antiquated voting machines, better train IT staff to defend against cyberthreats and educate the public, state and county election officials told lawmakers Wednesday.
During last week's two-day California CIO Academy, our team conducted brief video interviews with IT leaders in state government. Today's interview features Nabil Fares, the CIO for the city of Stockton.
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