Workforce & People
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Arizona CIO J.R. Sloan, co-founder of GovRAMP, has served as its board president since 2021. Now, Texas Chief AI and Innovation Officer Tony Sauerhoff will take on the leadership role. -
Rizwan Ahmed, who served as Louisiana’s CIO from 2006 to 2008, is the city-parish’s new information services director, bringing years of state-level IT experience to the role.
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The appointment of Eleonore Fournier-Tombs as chief AI officer and Stephen Graham as chief digital officer signals a more coordinated approach to AI, tech policy and public services as leadership roles evolve.
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Women make up only about one-quarter of the tech workforce, and even less are in gov tech leadership roles. Creating an inclusive environment and developing talent pipelines are key to changing that.
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Jessica Tisch, commissioner of the New York City Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications, explains how she pivoted to address the pandemic while maintaining and modernizing the massive city’s systems.
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Stephen Elkins, who has served as chief information officer for the city of Austin since 2010, announced his retirement this week. Chris Stewart, CIO with Austin Water, will serve as his interim replacement.
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For more than four years, Dan Kempton served as director of engineering and cloud services for the North Carolina IT Department. He is now the state chief technology officer, a newly created role.
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Employers consistently cite three skills new employees don’t have. Educational models need to change to equip the next-generation workforce with the ability to communicate, problem-solve and consider the future.
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Plus, Chattanooga, Tenn., launches a policing and racial equity dashboard for residents; 20 millennials and Gen Z leaders are selected as emerging cities champions by the Knight Foundation; and more.
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Remote government work can have many benefits, as the last several months have shown. But whether state IT agencies should recruit more remote workers, regardless of where they live, remains an open question.
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The newly named CIO spent years in the private sector under various information security management roles, and will take over IT operations at a time when the state is looking to secure its posture against cyberthreats.
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Two California agencies are in the proof of concept stage of a procurement for a statewide homeless data integration system. Tackling the homelessness in the state has long been a focus of the Newsom administration.
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Such a concentration of former state tech leadership in one company is unusual, but AWS is also the largest cloud provider around and has offered government-focused services for a long time.
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An assessment based on an artificial intelligence project offers insight into US-China relations by making certain predictions.
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The pandemic has led to the steepest yearly decline in sales tax revenue in at least 24 years, according to a just-released report. And the National League of Cities expects recovery to be slow.
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Jamie Grant, who has worked in health-care IT and has served as a state representative since 2010, will be the new IT lead for the state of Florida, the governor's office announced Thursday.
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A regularly updated look at how a historic pandemic has changed the public-sector workforce, month by month and sector by sector. Plus, is seasonally adjusted data missing something important?
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The novel coronavirus has forced changes to the American workforce. While some operations have shifted to work-from-home arrangements, others are turning to automation to meet consumer demand.
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The CIO, who has been in office for a little more than a year and a half, led the state's technological response to the COVID-19 outbreak, helping to set up alternate care sites and enable remote work.
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Even as cases of COVID-19 surged, public-sector employment — like the rest of the economy — continued a slow, steady recovery in July. But state and local governments foresee danger as they prep for next year's budgets.
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The California Department of Public Health director has resigned, an abrupt departure of an adviser in the coronavirus battle following the discovery of a computer system failure that resulted in undercounting of COVID-19 cases.
