In 2024, the Legislature passed SHB 1947, which eliminated the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) and incorporated all duties and responsibilities to Washington Technology Solutions (WaTech), as well as renamed the agency from Consolidated Technology Services (CTS) to WaTech. Previous references to the OCIO or CTS should be understood to refer to WaTech.
Dear Washingtonians!
I loved the theme for this year's International Women's Day - "Choose to Challenge."
The opening paragraph on International Women's Day website could not be more powerful: "A challenged world is an alert world and from challenge comes change. So let's all choose to challenge. How will you help forge a gender equal world? Celebrate women's achievement. Raise…
Public and private organizations across the country are falling victim to ransomware that is interrupting services. Costs to recover data and restore systems can quickly spiral into the millions.
Ransomware encrypts files on computer hard drives, making them impossible for users to access. Bad actors usually demand a ransom payment in Bitcoin in return for a key that might, or might…
WSDOT published a cool assortment of travel time data for I-405 a couple of weeks ago; not a ton of promotion of the dataset, but it's out there for folks to explore (here's a link). Now it looks like that posting has inspired one of the community of Tableau Public users to do just that -- explore the data with a different visual (embedded below). Cool example of how even a dense set of…
See the list of new data standards that have been adopted.
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Dear Washingtonians!
I wish everyone a safe, healthy and happy New Year. There is much to look forward to in the coming months, including the promise of vaccinations and a new normal.
Without question, 2020 was a horrendous year and I'm glad to see it in the rearview mirror. COVID-19 has had a huge impact on all of our lives and resulted in significant changes in how we do…
