And the Winner Is…
A highlight of this year’s California Digital Government Summit in Sacramento was the Best of California Awards that recognized innovative leaders and projects in government technology. For the past 17 years, the Center for Digital Government, a subsidiary of...
Olli, Olli, Olli Get Your Ride Here
Who’s your new best friend at CDT’s Prospect Green office location in Rancho Cordova? Olli. During a 3-month trial, employees at Prospect Green get rides to their offices and cars by way of some of the most advanced transportation technology available. Olli is a 3-D...
California State IT Projects Named NASCIO Award Finalists
When CDT submitted California State information technology projects to the National Association of State Information Officers (NASCIO) for its State IT Recognition Awards, we felt positive that they would be well received and…we were right. Recently, NASCIO announced...
CDT Technology Mentoring Program Delivers Real World Experience
CDT has created a mentoring program for college-level Student Assistants to introduce them to real world public IT. This program provides professional work experience in the students’ fields of interest and degrees and offers them an opportunity to develop technical...
State Data Center Powered by Solar Approaches First Birthday with Savings!
In a concerted effort to become more energy efficient and environmentally conscious, CDT and the Department of General Services constructed a parking lot solar canopy to power the State’s primary Data Center. Since its completion in September 2018, the 76,000 square...
WIC-WISE Coming Soon!
Recently, the California Department of Public Health introduced the California Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) card to enhance its special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children (WIC). The WIC Card will replace the current paper food checks...
CDT’s Innovative Electronic Bids Better, Greener and Faster than Paper
CDT’s Statewide Technology Procurement has been piloting an electronic submission for bids and proposals since May of this year with the goal to eliminate the complexity found with paper submissions in the IT procurement process. e-Procurement processes are becoming...
A Cybersecurity Asset: CDT’s Information Security Leadership Academy
Cybersecurity is vitally important to every Californian, and the need for highly qualified security professionals has never been greater. To illustrate the need, consider that every day CDT’s Security Operations Center detects 200-plus million malicious probes...
CDT’s Project Approval Lifecycle (PAL) Celebrates Its Birthday with a Gift of Success
As part of the reforms to the state’s Information Technology project approval process, the California Department of Technology (CDT) released the final stage of the Project Approval Lifecycle (PAL) Framework in August 2016. PAL was originally designed to improve the...