The California Earthquake Authority has an annual budget of $487 million, but it's privately funded, and it's not an agency or department of state government. Its mission: To insure as many California homes as possible against earthquake damage.
The Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development has beefed up its data skills and recently migrated hospital financial data from a legacy mainframe to a modern data collection solution.
Agency profile: The California Department of Industrial Relations has a budget of $677.42 million for the 2017-18 fiscal year; $59.15 million of that is allocated to information technology.
A new report by the state Legislative Analyst’s Office tackles the growing concern over the state’s archival storage space. The report, prepared by fiscal and policy analyst Sara Cortez, predicts the State Archives will no longer be able to store physical records in less than two decades.
It’s no secret that Mayor Darrell Steinberg is looking to expand Sacramento’s foothold in the technology sector, and last week, the Mayor’s Office for Innovation and Entrepreneurship announced that it is officially naming the Sacramento region’s technology sector in an effort to spur excitement and potential growth.
The California State Water Resources Control Board, which has oversight of nine regional water boards, is focused on database and cybersecurity. Its new CISO says she has her work cut out for her.
The California Department of Veterans Affairs has key priorities: helping veterans with jobs and health care while maintaining cybersecurity in its IT operations. The department has about $14 million a year to spend on technology.
More than 100 people attended a job fair held Friday by the Office of Systems Integration, vying to speak with representatives from multiple projects in the OSI family, including Child Welfare Digital Services, the California Women Infants and Children program, Welfare Data Tracking Implementation Project and the Statewide Automated Welfare System.
The Department of Child Welfare Digital Services has a significant number of job openings available right now, following an internal “ramp-up” of their move to an agile platform, according to CWDS Deputy Director for the Office of Systems Integration Tony Fortenberry.
A program that combined training, coding and competition was the hot ticket this week, when a hackfest drew programmers and coders from local, state and federal governments to downtown Sacramento. Programmers of all abilities attended the Azure Government HackFest + Training Event, ranging from newcomers to experienced developers.
State Controller Betty Yee updated California's public pay transparency portal on Tuesday to include the 2015 self-reported salary and wage data for state government, county courts and California universities.
2016 "CodeAcross" kickoff event starts March 1 at the County Board Chambers in Sacramento. For six weeks, participants will work out of Sacramento’s HackerLab and will be challenged to build programming solutions based off of Sacramento County’s Open Data Portal. Submissions must be entered by April 11, with a closing event to follow. First place will take home $5,000, with second and third place receiving $3,000 and $2,000 respectively.
California Energy Commission adopted its biennial report on state energy issues on Wednesday, covering a range of topics and policy recommendations from energy efficiency of buildings to decarbonizing and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Commissioners also approved a $1.5 million grant to UC Berkeley for the development of advanced smart-charging software to address issues caused by the growing number of electric plug-in vehicles on the grid in California.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and Esri President Jack Dangermond on Friday unveiled Los Angeles’ newest tech innovation, called GeoHub. It’s expected to provide Location as a Service technology (LaaS) to relay real-time data and mapping to the city and its residents and businesses.
Maria MacGunigal, the city’s chief information officer, confirmed to Techwire the loss of power, commenting only that “there was a power failure at the primary data center today that impacted the availability of the city's website.”
The state Legislature’s Technology and Innovation Caucus on Wednesday introduced its 24 members and talked about how the new group could support California’s tech economy and introduce new bills.
Although California has some of the leading laws on political disclosure, there is still work to be done regarding access and data search systems, according to findings this week from the National Institute on Money in State Politics.
Starting Jan. 8 the Controlled Substance Utilization Review and Evaluation System (CURES) will automatically redirect current CURES users who log in with up-to-date and secure Web browsers to the new CURES 2.0 system. All health practitioners licensed to prescribe or dispense Schedule II through IV controlled substances and medications (such as narcotics) are required by law to sign up for the program before July 1, 2016.
