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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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California has been testing an identity verification program for public assistance programs such as CalWORKS or cash assistance.
Peter Kelly, chief deputy director and CIO of the California Health and Human Services Agency’s Office of Systems Integration, is stepping down from that role and will help oversee a new initiative before leaving the department next month.
California's agile flagship project developers will present their work at the stakeholder forum tomorrow.
The state’s first online business development portal — "like an Amazon for business incentives" — kicks off next week with a demo, but it's up and running and available for perusal.
Samsung has been chosen by Verizon to supply commercial 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) network solutions in Sacramento — one of the first cities in the nation to deliver super-high-speed wireless Internet connectivity for residents. They will launch commercial 5G services in the city in the second half of this year.
State Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco introduced a bill this week that would require telecommunications companies doing business in the state to guarantee equal Internet access. The bill is a reaction to last month’s Federal Communications Commission decision to revoke nationwide net neutrality regulations.
Los Angeles County joins several other California counties in upgrading its voting technology by moving forward with its Voting Solutions for All People project.
Techwire has been querying IT leaders in government and the private sector about what trends they see in government technology in 2018. Today, three of those figures weigh in.
When Ann Dunkin transitioned last February from being CIO of the federal Environment Protection Agency to the same position in Santa Clara government, her focus shifted dramatically.
A state examination of a pilot program for procurement used by the University of California (UC) system and California’s Community Colleges (CCC) has yielded mixed results, according to a new report.
Russ Nichols, CIO of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, offers his outlook for technology in government in 2018.
The Los Angeles Police Department is working with the California Office of Traffic Safety and other agencies on cannabis-related tech.
The CIO of the University of California system says streamlining infrastructure frees up money for cloud services, analytics and machine learning.
While the economy is heating up, talent in the technology sector is tightening — and government will feel the pinch as much, and maybe more, than everyone else. Innovative retention strategies will be key areas where we will see some growth this year.
California lawmakers focused this last legislative session on keeping personal data collected by state and local agencies away from the federal government. In the coming year, their attention is likely to turn to private companies and how they protect consumers' information.
California Secretary of State Alex Padilla has published a short video recapping the digital initiatives his office undertook in 2017, a pivotal year for technology related to cannabis legalization and other businesses in the state.
Techwire offers an extended "In Case You Missed It" today — a wrapup of pivotal gov tech stories from 2017 that will have implications into 2018 and beyond, including long-term projects that will bring many procurements.
Tom Andriola, CIO of the University of California, sat down to tell Techwire how each campus and the overall system acquires technology, how the IT Leadership Council strategizes technology purchases and about how each location specializes its own technology.
Internet policy, broadband expansion and IT talent recruitment and retention were among the key issues in which California's legislators performed fairly well in 2017, according to the co-chairman of the state's Tech Caucus. Lawmakers in 2017 created new laws to bring broadband to rural areas, improve accessibility to government websites and move public record storage to the cloud.
California will join a national wireless broadband network dedicated to first responders, a decision issued Thursday by Gov. Jerry Brown despite reservations about interoperability, security and performance during emergencies.
Editor’s note: Following is one in an ongoing series of profiles of the largest California state government agencies.
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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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