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.
The County Road Administration Board (CRAB) publishes annual performance and project data on road projects around the state. Currently their dashboard summarizes and offers for download about 2,759,728 records from the agency's own staff and drawn from the following other state programs:
Department of Ecology
Municipal Storm Water
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Washington state is one of four states nationally selected by the National Governors Association (NGA) to work on policies to advance whole-of-state cybersecurity postures. The NGA made the announcement today.
"I am proud that Washington was one of only four states selected by the National Governor's Association (NGA) to help advance the whole-of-state cybersecurity model," Gov. Jay…
Summer is here and many travelers are busy packing cell phones, tablets and other connected devices into their luggage along with sunscreen and books.
Please keep in mind that cyber criminals are waiting for you to go on vacation as well.
They troll social media sites to learn who is traveling and have left their home unoccupied. They also tap public Wi-Fi networks to steal…
The State of WA publishes a variety of large datasets on government contracts that are often of interest to transparency advocates and the civic tech community. Here are a couple of examples that deserve more attention:
Agency Contracts with vendors active in 2014(data provided by WA Dept of Enterprise Services - click here for the table)
Contarcts by Agency 2014 -…NASCIO-award nominated project by Washington State Ferries (WSF) helps riders navigate ferry schedules.Know Before You Go Somewhere -- an easy way for ferry riders traveling in their vehicles to check for space availability of upcoming ferry departures -- was nominated for the Information Communications Technology (ICT) Innovations accolade in the 2014 State IT Recognition Awards presented…
