Four key California tech cities — San Francisco, Los Angeles, Sacramento and San Jose — are discussing contract opportunities for tech goods and services.
As California's big cities face a growing need for tech answers to infrastructure challenges and quality-of-life issues, they're increasingly turning to hackathons and hobbyists for answers. Often, the private sector is teaming up with local governments themselves to facilitate this involvement. Here is a look at what some of California's bigger cities are doing to address this 21st-century need.
If you're a systems software specialist looking for a good job in your field, you're in luck. More than one-third of California’s unfilled public-sector tech jobs are specialists who are not managers, according to the California Department of Human Resources. If you aren’t a systems software specialist, there are still about 225 unfilled IT jobs with the state. And the number of open positions is only expected to grow as today's IT workforce begins moving toward retiremen
Rob Lloyd, San Jose’s CIO, is responsible for IT strategy, projects that need to be approved, absorbing projects that go wrong and approving IT budget structures.
Brenda Bridges Cruz was initially interested in Covered California because of its mission to provide affordable health care to all. As a three-year survivor of breast cancer, she understands the importance of having good insurance.
Since taking over last month as Covered California's deputy chief information officer for strategic initiatives, her goal is to help others with life-threatening illnesses to at least feel confident in their medical coverage, so they can focus on their health.
Ash Roughani, the "bureaucracy hacker" in the Sacramento Mayor’s Office for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, held an online workshop recently to give some insight to the city's new "creative economy" pilot project. The focus of the mayor's initiative, known as MOFIE, is supporting community organizations, co-working spaces and other players in the innovation and tech ecosystem.
Richard Rogers has been appointed chief of the Office of Technology Services in the California Department of Technology, where he had served as deputy director of engineering since 2015. And Barbara Bridges Cruz has been appointed as deputy chief information officer of Covered California.
The Department of Social Services has 4,200 employees throughout 51 offices, 58 welfare departments and offices, and a multitude of community-based organizations.
The California Department of Transportation, known as Caltrans, has almost 20,000 employees and a budget of $10.9 billion, of which $217 million is dedicated to information technology. Caltrans says its mission is to provide a safe, sustainable, integrated and efficient transportation system to enhance California’s economy and livability.
The man in charge of technology for California's third-largest city, San Jose CIO Rob Lloyd, joined Techwire Wednesday for a "virtual briefing" forum. The conversation, led by Techwire's Joe Morris and open to subscribers, focused on San Jose’s current tech projects and goals.
The California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation is the third-largest law enforcement agency in the United States, with 24,000 correctional officers, 1,800 state parole agents and 600 criminal investigators/special agents (as of 2013). The CDCR has an annual budget upwards of $11 billion, with more than $358 million dedicated to IT.
Techwire is hosting a virtual briefing at 2 p.m. Wednesday featuring San Jose’s CIO, Rob Lloyd, who will discuss the city and its goals and future as it improves its IT Department and moves toward becoming a “smart city.” This is a briefing you won't want to miss.
The California Department of Employment Development has an annual budget of more than $14 billion, with about $103 million coming from the General Fund. Overall, more than $262 million has been allocated to the EDD’s IT department.
In March 2016, then-Mayor Kevin Johnson started the Sacramento Mayor’s Office of Innovation. The plan was for this office to take Sacramento to the next level and make it a hub of technology, innovation and entrepreneurship. Johnson chose Abhi Nemani, who was previously the chief data officer for Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and a leader of Code for America, to get his Office of Innovation off the ground.
Techwire is hosting a virtual briefing at 2 p.m. June 21 featuring San Jose’s CIO, Rob Lloyd, regarding the city and its goals and future as it improves its IT Department and moves toward becoming a “smart city.” Here are your four reasons to be there:
