Workforce & People
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The director of the California Department of Technology and state CIO since June 2022 will be stepping down after a 38-year career. That included guiding CDT’s on-the-ground response to the 2025 wildfires. -
The state is offering AI training developed with InnovateUS, to help employees increase their skill levels and use AI responsibly. The curriculum is available via its online learning platform.
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Nate Denny, former deputy secretary for the Department of Information Technology, will lead it starting next month. In his earlier role, he guided the state’s broadband expansion.
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The U.S. Agency for International Development hires Ann Mei Chang, Google's former senior engineering director, to confront poverty with tech solutions.
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The Florida Legislature re-authorized the state’s CIO position and technology agency over the summer, but news on the state’s plan to modernize and improve technology has been hard to come by.
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Entrepreneur Elon Musk is poised to get into the satellite-launching business at the expense of aerospace giants Boeing and Lockheed Martin.
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State CIO Mark Raymond describes project funding and business transformation efforts.
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After more than a decade of serving as a public IT professional, Teri Takai is back in the private sector.
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The classified computer system, NICKA, tracks military nicknames, code words and exercise terms to ensure they’re not duplicated.
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Five highly regarded government CIOs share their secrets to becoming trailblazers in government IT.
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Agile development -- where software projects are broken into short sprints -- isn't as easy to implement in government as one might expect. Here are the key impediments and how CIOs are working to overcome them.
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Governors often attract CIOs from the private sector, where they sometimes return for better pay or to take on new challenges, such as startup ventures, after giving time to public service and achieving some goals for the state.
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State CIOs voted on their top priorities for the coming year, reflecting little change from the past few years.
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State policies about whether employees should delete or save emails vary considerably, creating concerns among open government advocates.
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Will online commentary dictate the future of legislative policy?
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Are absentee ballot systems like Nevada’s violating a prohibition on the use of Defense Department grant money to create online voting systems?
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Mikey Dickerson, the former Google site reliability manager, speaks out about leading the U.S. Digital Service agency and how he and his team are working to usher in a culture change in the public sector.
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As more governments focus on digital service adoption, the state's first chief digital officer is guiding the state toward more user-centric online design.
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Following the departure of James Sills, Delaware found a replacement in James Collins.
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The state chief information technology officer will assume private-sector role in the Kansas City area.
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