Workforce & People
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Tony Sauerhoff, who also previously served as state chief information security officer, was appointed interim executive director of the Texas Department of Information Resources and interim CIO. -
From the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf Coast, local governments are taking a strategic approach to sustain operational continuity in the face of IT department layoffs caused by budget constraints.
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"Chief" has long been included in government job titles, particularly in IT. But as organizations have evolved, the lines between what each chief does have blurred. AI has only made the issue more pressing.
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The approved learning management system from Blackboard and Taborda comes as part of an initiative designed to improve employee processes and data statewide.
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The state's IT procurement budget has been slowly getting cut by Harrisburg lawmakers over the last four years while the ITSA program has grown five-fold in the last seven.
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Non-traditional IT hires are just one unique way that CIOs and CISOs are looking to attract IT professionals as the industry faces a steep labor shortage of 1.8 million by 2022.
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Faced with dwindling opportunities at the hands of technological advancements, workers around the country are seeking new skills to stay employed.
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The recent opening of a portion of the Georgia Cyber Innovation and Training Center has set the stage for what the state hopes will be a “cyber tsunami.”
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There's no one path to a career at the top of the heap.
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Nearly one in five of the New Orleans Sewerage & Water Board 's customers have challenged their bills since the introduction of the new billing system.
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Advances in automation, robotics and artificial intelligence are setting the stage to radically alter employment opportunities in the coming decades.
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The first of two buildings at the Georgia Cyber Center, believed to be the largest single investment in a state-owned cybersecurity facility, officially opened July 10.
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Bismarck State College is partnering with California-based Palo Alto Networks to address an estimated 1.8 million cyberstaffing shortfall by 2022.
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The MN Cyber Range has comprehensive, realistic courses that are billed as a “flight simulator for cyberattacks.”
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Transitioning to the concept of open data is considered a top priority.
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The former CIO of New Mexico’s biggest city has transitioned from that role to become the assistant CIO in Phoenix.
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State and local government must encourage youth to participate in the fight against cybercrime to help connect organizations and shape tomorrow's gov tech talent.
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Smaller governments are advertising cheap electricity and other incentives to draw the eager new businesses to their towns.
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Plus, Austin hackathon leads to creation of anti-human trafficking app; civic tech project identifies 51 places where sewage flows into the Chicago River; executive director/founder departs from the open gov advocacy group the Data Coalition; and two major gov tech organizations look to hire visual designers.
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The closure of a coal-fired power plant in Milam County displaced more than 300 workers, but an incoming cryptomining operation plans to hire as many as 500.
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Baltimore has hired its inaugural chief of IT human capital and director of digital DevOps, and a chief data officer; and begun to execute on its digital transformation plan.
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