News
Top Story
Not every chatbot launch goes to plan, a lesson the city of Long Beach learned with the introduction of its own digital assistant, Ask Elby! Officials shared their experiences with the technology at the recent GovAI Coalition Summit in San Jose.
News
Industry Insider — California debuted a new series this year, Profiles in Government. Here’s more on its coverage of some of the state’s most significant departments.
After stepping away from a decade of public safety technology leadership, Bradford Davis will write about challenges in law enforcement while eyeing a return to the industry. He describes what the public safety future might hold.
A trash truck or a streetlight has a basic function, but in a digital age they can be so much more, adding value outside of their core purposes.
With the grant, the San Bernardino campus facility will focus its efforts on cyber defense, cyber research and cyber operations at educational institutions across the country.
The state chief information officer and her deputy are among the new faces of leadership in the California Department of Technology.
The departments work in the areas of insurance, purchasing, technology and taxes.
Industry Insider – California will pause the daily newsletter on each of the next two Mondays, Dec. 26 and Jan. 2, in observance of the Christmas and New Year’s holidays. You can expect daily newsletters in your inbox Tuesday through Friday of next week, as Industry Insider keeps you informed and up to date on news and issues of interest to the govtech community.
The state is in pre-request for proposal stages on middle-mile broadband network improvements across an 11-county area of Northern California.
The departments seeking candidates are the Department of Insurance, the Gambling Control Commission and the Franchise Tax Board.
The department’s five largest transactions for IT services during the year’s third quarter landed in the low seven figures combined.
The federal legislation, signed last year, will augment California’s multibillion-dollar investment in improving the quality and availability of high-speed Internet across the state.
More wind and solar power is coming online all the time. But yearslong permitting processes across multiple agencies, community opposition, and high costs mean it can take a decade to build the infrastructure needed to move it.
“To bring back service levels, the public sector must rethink its remote work policies and, at a minimum, bring employees who deal directly with the public back to the office at least a few days a week for 2023 and beyond.”
Overall, more than 3 million people across California and Oregon received some kind of alert, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
California plans to invest more than $5.5 billion in state funding toward electric vehicle charging infrastructure and incentive programs. This is in addition to some $384 million in federal funding.
“For my next ‘act,’ I am looking to build tech tools that help public servants do more with less,” he told Industry Insider — California.
At a recent panel discussion, a longtime public-sector technologist offered his thoughts on how government can make serious inroads on updating its infrastructure and creating scalability.
The list of awardees was published on CDT’s TechBlog in conjunction with a virtual departmental awards ceremony held on Dec. 7.
One of the state’s best-known law enforcement agencies wants to hear from organizations capable of helping it refresh a Northern California facility.
The state’s Enterprise Technology Contract expires in March 2024, and the Department of General Services is seeking vendors’ input in hopes of getting an early start on the next iteration.
An IT project that sprang from needs originating during the COVID-19 pandemic has helped one California county transform aspects of its service — and it may yield further innovations.
Contributed
Next-generation tools and approaches help agencies mitigate vulnerabilities.
New service offering approved under BeyondTrust’s existing FedRAMP authorization to operate (ATO) broadens government access to identity security
What we can learn from the State of Washington's IT Industry Forum
Upcoming Events
Join us for an engaging Lunch and Learn session at the Microsoft Sacramento office and explore how Microsoft and Databricks are shaping the future of Data and AI.
Join us to discover how an AI-first, cloud-native approach can help your agency to be digital-first, transforming the permitting and licensing services.
