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Speaking at the event will be CDT Director and state CIO Amy Tong, and Richard Rogers, chief of the Office of Technology Services and interim chief deputy director of CDT.

Students will receive formal classroom training three or four days a week for the first five weeks, and will work in their home departments when not in the classroom.

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Nominations must be government projects undertaken by a public body in the Los Angeles region. All nominated projects must be currently in use and have quantifiable outcomes.

Three subcommittees will address delivery, testing labs and equity, and the full advisory committee will meet.

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The focus is on the achievements and best practices from U.S. states, counties, cities and federal agencies and departments that have gone beyond the Web to radically improve upon the experience of government and push the boundaries of how services are delivered.

The county is the fourth in California to take part, according to an announcement this week. This comes after a 2016 vote to approve Proposition 64, which legalized recreational marijuana. As a result, many minor convictions became eligible for dismissal or to be reduced to a misdemeanor.

The state's public pension fund is seeking a senior executive for the security position, and a senior software engineer who can work well with solution architects, analysts and developers.

We come across a lot of news and commentary online that is worth noting. Here, we link to a few stories we've noticed recently that you might find interesting.

Code for America founder Jennifer Pahlka, in an essay written for USA Today and excerpted here, writes that government in the digital age should show online respect for citizens and their time. They'd have more faith in the system and be more likely to vote, she says.

A new group will accept input from stakeholders with diverse interests affected by state policies that govern emerging technologies, privacy, business, the courts, the legal community, and state government.