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Industry representatives talked through some of the considerations surrounding government adoption of artificial intelligence during the recent GovAI Coalition Summit in San Jose.
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In the last quarter of 2023, the California Highway Patrol purchased IT services related to consulting, telematics and data management.
The city plan meets all the required climate change goals, but it relies on assumptions of significant resource acquisition, capital upgrades, infrastructure improvements and technology advancements that may not pan out.
Several significant technology projects are out for bid with deadlines set for later this month. The projects include a new budgeting and forecasting system and a department-wide hardware replacement.
Recruitments are underway for chief roles in the California Fair Political Practices Commission, the California Department of Social Services and the California Department of State Hospitals.
Senate Bill 1179 would create new contracting requirements for state agencies and Internet service providers around affordable Internet service. Trade groups have voiced opposition to the proposal.
As part of Industry Insider — California’s ongoing efforts to inform readers about state agencies, their IT plans and initiatives, here’s the latest in our periodic series of interviews with departmental IT leaders.
“Many IT leaders struggle to find time to develop the necessary skills to focus on organizational maturity. ... This lack of focus is a significant barrier to innovation and IT risk reduction,” writes Steve Monaghan.
Theo Douglas, the publication’s assistant managing editor, has been named news editor for Government Technology magazine. And Eyragon Eidam is moving from the GovTech news editor role to that of managing editor for Industry Insider — California.
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has issued a request for proposals for a solution to collect and analyze data associated with previously incarcerated individuals.
A newly introduced proposal from Assemblymember Josh Hoover would raise the small-business contracting ceiling for goods, services and IT from $250,000 to $500,000. The last increase was passed in 2009.
The Los Angeles IT Leadership Forum and the California Public Sector CIO Academy are both coming soon. Speakers at both events include the top names in public-sector technology governance and innovation, as well as industry representatives.
The departments of Corrections and State Hospitals are on the hunt for a chief of the Office of the CIO and an enterprise application and data chief, respectively. The application periods close in early March.
Over the one-year period that ended in June 2023, Silicon Valley added about 2,700 jobs, the report determined. That’s a sharp slowdown from the 88,000 jobs the region added during the one-year period that ended in June 2022.
The new version — NIST’s first major update to the framework since 2014 — adds a key cybersecurity function, aims to support all sectors and is accompanied by the release of supplementary resources.
Those purchases included technical tools, such as a mass spectrometer, and more conventional items, such as laptop computers.
The most recent layoffs disclosed by the tech titan will affect Cisco workers in San Jose, Milpitas and San Francisco, according to official notices the company sent to the state Employment Development Department.
When it comes to ensuring the multibillion-dollar AI industry succeeds in their respective cities, San Francisco and San Jose are taking starkly different approaches to attracting companies.
Technology officials said at a recent Industry Insider — California Member Briefing that they are looking carefully at both the structure of their IT organization and how IT projects are spearheaded.
California county supervisors were among the members of the National Association of Counties who went in Washington, D.C., to urge Congress to extend funding for a program providing subsidies to help low-income households afford broadband Internet service.
AI has California voters worried this election cycle. Just over 5 in 10 said they are concerned about their jobs being replaced by AI, according to a December survey by Politico and Morning Consult.
The online event on March 5 will pose five areas in which the California Department of Transportation is seeking vendors’ ideas, suggestions and proposals.
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