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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 Public Utilities Commission, which has been exploring mobile technology and making its work more digital, is beginning to change both customer and employee experiences as the agency expands its presence and its IT workforce in Sacramento.
For those outside the IT world, technology procurement can be confusing, making it harder for those in charge of purchasing and management to justify how things are being done.
During last week's California CIO Academy, our team conducted brief video interviews with IT leaders in state government. Today's interview features Amar Hariharan, a project manager with the California Department of Technology.
When it comes to artificial intelligence, California lawmakers on Tuesday received a clear message: The potential promise to transform society is extremely exciting, but great care must be taken.
There's a new robot taxi service in San Francisco — but it's only for people working on Uber's self-driving-car project. The purpose is twofold: to give engineers a visceral sense of the technology they're developing, and to gain real-life feedback on operating a robot-taxi service.
FI$Cal, the department in charge of combining all of California's governing bodies and agencies into one financial system and creating transparency around the state's budget, is creating a transparency website.
The state Child Welfare Digital Services (CWDS) project has formed a team specifically focusing on human-centered research and design services for all digital endeavors across the project, which is developing software to replace the child welfare legacy system.
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. The interviews were led by Steve Towns, e.Republic's deputy chief content officer.
We live in an age of continuous disruption and transformation, which means CIOs have to become brokers, integrators and orchestrators.
Nurturing relationships between the public sector and vendors is key to long-term success.
During last week's two-day California CIO Academy, Techwire conducted brief video interviews with IT leaders in state government. The interviews were led by Steve Towns, e.Republic's deputy chief content officer. Today's interview features Carla Simmons, CIO for the Governor's Office of Emergency Services.
A Tesla Semi, still technically a prototype vehicle, was recently seen driving on Interstate 80 in the Sacramento area, as documented by a YouTube video uploaded by another driver. The "wild" Semi spotting already has tech blogs and self-driving car enthusiasts bubbling. And there's speculation that the I-80 route, passing through Sacramento, may be used regularly.
Attention, vendors: CIOs can’t stand it when you’re not familiar with their departments’ strategic plans. Becoming familiar with an agency's priorities can help you do business.
Mike Sakamoto will leave his position as the Department of Health Care Services' chief technology officer on March 12.
A group of sprawling, expensive state technology projects stands to gain another $100 million in spending under budget proposals advocated by Gov. Jerry Brown’s office. His administration is requesting the money to complete a $909 million accounting project, a $386 million project for prison inmate health records, a $281 million tax collection program and a $96 million professional licensing program.
When IT leaders from some of the state’s biggest agencies get together to discuss “enterprise governance,” prepare for the shattering of some long-held myths about the roles of technology, policy and philosophy in government.
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Understanding personality types and being a generous professional mentor can influence one’s career, help or hinder one’s relationships, and affect one’s approach not only in business but in life. That was the message of a seminar Tuesday led by George Okamoto, agency chief information officer for the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency. The workshop was part of the California Public Sector CIO Academy.
From baby boomers to millennials, governments are having to change the way they think about engaging their workforce as new generations take over.
A key part of Government Technology’s California Public Sector CIO Academy is the CIO Academy Awards, presented Wednesday evening in Sacramento.
Bolstered IT systems, stepped-up education and training, and new partnerships have improved California’s ability to defend against cyberattacks, state officials charged with preventing and responding to such threats told lawmakers Wednesday.
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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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