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At an Industry Insider — California Member Briefing this week, CIO Ajit Girn and his team from the Employment Development Department told a roomful of vendors about the progress it's made in the five years since the pandemic struck — and what it needs going forward.
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The program is part of an initiative that also updated the null, which makes telecom and information services more affordable for eligible schools, in order to support Wi-Fi hot spots, Wi-Fi on school buses and libraries in tribal communities.
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FTB’s request, the second-largest IT-related ask among state agencies, would fund ongoing work on Enterprise Data to Revenue, a modernization of the state’s tax-collection technology.
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One position in the Employment Development Department focuses on access and identity management, and the other calls for expertise in network engineering.
In December, professor Jeff Hancock admitted in a court filing that he had used ChatGPT, blamed the bot for an error and two other AI “hallucinations” he had subsequently discovered in his submission, and apologized to the court.
The Employment Development Department’s budget change proposal for the fiscal year that begins July 1, the largest IT-related request filed by a state agency, is intended to continue the EDDNext system modernization initiative.
“We revamped the Open Source Portal and made it more user-friendly and easier to share and reuse open-source code,” said Blaine Wasylkiw, the state deputy chief technology innovation officer. “Government entities, businesses and the public can use this collaborative tool to develop digital solutions quickly.”
Experts say schools and their vendors are increasingly being targeted by professional criminals overseas who seek money through ransomware attacks or by stealing personal data that can be sold on the dark web to be used for identity theft.
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