After early in the pandemic trying to field offers of personal protective equipment using email and spreadsheets, the state soon adopted Salesforce instead.

California's new data strategy aims to bring relevant data sets from across the state government to agency officials working on problems ranging from homelessness to public health, statewide Chief Data Officer Joy Bonaguro said.

An investigation led by Code for America founder Jennifer Pahlka and state Operations Secretary Yolanda Richardson concluded Monday with recommendations to prevent the state's unemployment backlog from growing larger.

The state put out a call this week to organizations and community groups with ideas on how to boost the state's collection and transport of biological samples — quickly.

Emergency management officials in two counties have reported software errors hampering their ability to warn the public of deadly fires.

Recently uncovered flaws in a lab reporting system led public officials to misrepresent the state's COVID-19 case levels and now for Public Health Director Sonia Angell to resign.

The new team includes Code For America Founder Jennifer Pahlka, who will help streamline an outdated process that has resulted in what Gov. Gavin Newsom called an "unacceptable" claims backlog.

In an online event, IT officials said enabling entire state workforces to work from home stirred unexpected lessons about culture, cybersecurity and training.

Former Palo Alto, California, CIO Jonathan Reichental said he wants to "make things better." From AI to the cloud, these are the technologies he thinks can make that happen.