Opinion

The vendor community’s recommendations for improving California’s IT project implementation.

Confluence of technology, design, innovation and leadership can break down even the most entrenched state bureaucracies.

Let’s hold cloud storage for law enforcement video to the highest security standards.

Open data sites, even 508-compliant ones, aren't necessarily accessible to all.

Telemedicine is used in Iowa for everything from psychiatric evaluations to burns and stroke treatment, yet the Iowa Board of Medicine singled out this one purpose.

While many lawsuits challenging the agency's mass surveillance remain tied up in courts, the NSA continues its data collection activities while refusing to release details about its activities on national security grounds.

Now responsible for lining up individual contracts with local school districts, state schools Superintendent Sherri Ybarra's technology team dropped virtually everything else.

At its March 9 event, the company announced the Apple Watch and other products that will bring wearables into the enterprise and continue the crowdsourcing trend.

To unlock the full potential of open data, the USDA contract for Recreation.gov must encourage entrepreneurs to build third-party “retail” applications.

As the headlines about the National Security Agency's voracious data-gathering show, when it comes to protecting privacy, relying on high officials' good intentions isn't enough.

Much of the security of our personal data depends on businesses implementing proper protocols to protect databases. But government can’t rely on market incentives alone to compel the best data security practices.

While no law will be perfect or address all concerns involving drone use, the quicker solid laws are put into place the easier it will be to tweak those laws to protect privacy.

For many government leaders, innovation can be a mysterious and misunderstood process. The good news is that it isn’t as difficult as most people think.

With a new governor in office and legislators just now getting down to serious business in Austin, it's an opportune time for state officials to clean up, open up and recommit themselves to fiscal responsibility and public accountability.

As the technology improves, biometric voting systems will become more efficient — and increasingly standard around the world.

Open data is now table stakes, and any government that is not participating is behind its peers.

Wise elected officials, video recognition software, more women coders, government embracing the cloud are all on Bill Schrier's tech wish list this year.

The state's new IT agency would have broad authority to avoid redundancy, reject waste and enforce consistent quality standards.