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The Tech Blog

OCIO 2010 Year In Review. Read More >>

Inspiring Our Middle School Students to be Digitally Literate – the Fun Way. Read More >>

FCC’s White Spaces Decision Frees Up Unused TV Airwaves Between TV Channels. Read More >>

California Wins $218 Million in Broadband Economic Stimulus Grants To Close Digital Divide. Read More >>

EDD Announces Technology Projects. Read More >>

Collaborating on Server Virtualization Best Practices. Read More >>

Getting Connected to the Internet Gets a Little Easier. Read More >>

Progress Being Made on IT Consolidation Effort. Read More >>

The Governor and Twitter. Read More >>

New Portal Design Comes with Video Tour. Read More >>

Consolidation Workgroup Outlines Server Virtualization Practices. Read More >>

It is that time again when the Government Technology Conference is being held in Sacramento to, among other things, showcase all of the great work California IT professionals are doing to help improve government operations.Read More >>

ITMA class unveils new collaboration portal for state IT community Read More >>

Next week, I am excited to attend the annual Government Technology conference here in Sacramento on May 11 and 12. Read More >>

OSI Unveils Framework for IT Project Success Read More >>

This week, I am looking forward to a terrific opportunity to speak on a panel at CSU Sacramento. Read More >>

What's your Password IQ? Read More >>

DMV Launches iPhone App Read More >>

Wireless hotspots are changing the way people work by providing high-speed Internet connections in public locations and as the state begins to encourage more Teleworking and remote access to government networks, it’s important to remember your security ABC’s. Read More >>

At last month's Technology Services Board meeting, Office of Technology Services (OTech) Director PK Agarwal reported that the department has been saving $100,000 a month since they vacated part of their aging Cannery Campus last summer. Read More >>

The recent earthquake in Haiti has opened the door again for those unsavory characters who use tragedy to dupe, deceive, and otherwise take advantage of the naïve and unwary. Read More >>

This week, state IT officials will have a terrific opportunity to attend the Executive Institute (ei) , an annual two-day event hosted by the Office of Technology Services – in fact, this year we are celebrating its 20th anniversary. Read More >>

The Bureau of Reclamation's Central Valley Habitat Monitoring Program (CVHM) released its final dataset this winter. Read More >>

OCIO: A Look Back at 2009 Read More >>

Office of Information Security receives $3.69M in DHS Grant Funding. Read More >>

Today we realized another milestone in geospatial information for California.  Read More >>

The E-Hub Statewide Procurement and Implementation Team has been honored with a Best of California award from the Center for Digital Government. Read More >>

Today, we had a successful meeting of the State 9-1-1 Advisory Board, including a number of interesting and informative presentations. Read More >>

Today, we celebrate winning Best of California’s “Most Innovative Use of Technology” for our iPhone application CA.gov Services Locator. Read More >>

At the state level, we are always working on ways to improve emergency response to better serve Californians. Read More >>

Nearly 200 people attended the 8th Annual IT Security Awareness Fair in October. Read More >>

What's green, inexpensive, and saves thousands of trees each year? Read More >>

Broadband Mapping Announcement Read More >>

OCIO Launches Data Center Energy Efficiency Training Read More >>

Open Continuous Online Testing Read More >>

Statewide Imagery is Available Read More >>

Cannery UPS battery refurbishment saves $900,000. Read More >>

I am pleased to announce the release of the "Statewide Data Strategy Report" (pdf). Read More >>

Today we held our first meeting of the Digital Literacy Leadership Council that was established by Governor's Executive Order 06-09 to, among other things, develop policy that will promote digital literacy for all Californians. Read More >>

Over the past six months, the Office of Technology Services (OTech) has embarked on various cost cutting measures to reduce its fiscal year 09/10 spending by $14 million dollars. Read More >>

Concerned that State and local governments are not prepared to respond to attacks on cyber infrastructure, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Committees on Appropriations, has directed $4M for the development, evaluation, and implementation of the Community Cyber Security Maturity Model (CCSMM) training to three States. Read More >>

During a speech at Purdue University last July, then-candidate Obama said, "As President, I'll make cybersecurity the top priority that it should be in the 21st century. I'll declare our cyber-infrastructure a strategic asset, and appoint a National Cyber Advisor who will report directly to me." Read More >>

At the recent Government Technology Conference in mid May here in Sacramento, I hosted a GIS Executive session. The event focused on building GIS technology into the enterprise of State IT, and ensuring that programs, the legislature, and indeed the public have full access to data which informs, directs and advances the State. Read More >>

As a new feature to the OCIO website, we have added an input form for our business partners to submit ideas as state departments and agencies work on their individual IT consolidation plans, a component of the Governor's Reorganization Plan which took effect on May 10, 2009. Read More >>

A very exciting geospatial development happened last week. The National Agricultural Imagery Program (NAIP) announced last week that it has increased the allocation for imagery collection for 2009. Read More >>

OTech Executives recently completed developing enterprise performance measures which we will be publishing July 1st. Read More >>

As our agency works on securing ARRA stimulus funding for broadband projects, I just want to give an update with where we are in the process. Read More >>

There is a growing demand for the State of California to conduct its business differently. Read More >>

As part of the town hall we had a couple hundred people show up today from all the different staffs within DTS.
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I am happy to announce the release of the California GIS Task Force Report "Visualizing California; A Strategy for Enhanced Decision-making Tools for Public Policy Makers and the Public". Read More >>

GIS stands for Geographic Information Systems, and it's a process by which we can assemble geographic data in individual layers representing a certain kind of content. Read More >>

We're having the event on Monday really for two reasons. One, the Office of the State Chief Information Officer, when it was created in January of 2008. Read More >>

According to recent reports, California state agencies are encountering no major negative issues related to the well-publicized Conficker computer worm. Read More >>

The CalGIS Conference is next week in Sacramento. It is shaping up to be a great event. Read More >>