WaTech in the News

OLYMPIA - Washington OneNet congratulates the newly announced leadership team of the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet): Chief Executive Officer, Michael Poth, and President, TJ Kennedy.

The First Responder Network Authority is charged with the design and development of FirstNet--a national broadband network dedicated to public safety. WaTech's Washington OneNet is the…

OLYMPIA - Washington Technology Solutions (WaTech) Director and the state's Chief Information Officer, Michael Cockrill, announced yesterday WaTech's unification of the infrastructure area, formerly of the legacy Consolidated Technology Services (CTS), with enterprise applications, formerly a division of the Department of Enterprises Services (DES-ETS), under the leadership of Heidi Geathers…

OLYMPIA - The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) selected three Washington state technology initiatives as finalists for the State IT Recognition Awards.

The state of Washington awards finalists in the 2015 NASCIO program are:

Digital Government to Citizens (G2C) WA State Department of Revenue: Customer-Focused Service Enhancements to Online…

For a recent meeting I put together a step-by-step stroll through the mapping and sharing features of data.wa.gov.

We start with this map as a starting point:

https://data.wa.gov/Economics/Broadband-Community-Anchor-Institutions/5zkj-79xx

From there we drill down into the source dataset:

https://data.wa.gov/Economics/Broadband-…

DSHS publishes current and complete locations of state-licensed nursing homes, assisted living facilities and adult family homes. They can be found by subject matter on the geospatial services portal, or on the agency's new open data portal page. You can search and download the data in tabular form on the agency's website.