Monthly Archive: March 2022
UC Tech News
March 30, 2022
All ArticlesAccessibility, accessible technology, Descriptive text, hyperlinks, UCOP
By Amy Chen. Picture this—you’re reading through a website trying to find a link to a resource that you urgently need, but all the hyperlinks that you encounter say “Click here” or “Read more.” You don’t know what the links are…
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UC Tech News
March 30, 2022
All ArticlesEngineering, IANA, Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, Samueli School of Engineering, Time, time zone, UCLA
UC Tech News
March 23, 2022
All Articles#Adrian Turner, #Christine Kim, California Digital Library, Calisphere, CDL, History, Images, Library, Open-Source, recordings, texts
By Christine Kim and Adrian Turner. Calisphere is a gateway to California’s remarkable digital collections, with free access to over two million historical images, texts, recordings, and other primary resources. Developed and maintained by UC’s California Digital Library, Calisphere gathers resources…
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UC Tech News
March 23, 2022
All ArticlesAwards, Information Technology, ITLC, UC Information Technology Leadership Council, UC Tech Awards, UCTech
The UC Information Technology Leadership Council (ITLC) is announcing the expanded UC Tech Awards Program for 2022. The program includes the long-standing Sautter Awards, which recognizes team projects, and five new awards to honor individuals or teams for outstanding contributions to technology…
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UC Tech News
March 16, 2022
All Articlesdiversity, equity, inclusion, International Women's Day, WIT, Women in Tech, Women Rock IT, Women's History Month
The contributions of UC women working in IT are featured in this annual Women’s History Month article by the UC Women in Tech Committee. The WIT group from each UC location submitted one woman or one team of women for…
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UC Tech News
March 16, 2022
All ArticlesCommunication, contract, Procurement, telecommunications, Thomas Trappler, Tom Trappler, UCOP, Zoom
By Thomas Trappler. UC Procurement is pleased to announce a new UC wide agreement with Zoom that expands on the previous agreement for meeting products (audio, web, video, etc.), and adds the cloud VoIP product and Zoom phone. This outcome…
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UC Tech News
March 9, 2022
All ArticlesBerkeley IT, CIO, diversity, equity, inclusion, Jenn Stringer, UC Berkeley, UC Tech Exec, UCB
By Jenn Stringer. Becoming a first-time CIO during the pandemic certainly was trial by fire! What I appreciated about the experience is how the campus really came together to problem solve and the administrative and academic interests of the campus…
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UC Tech News
March 9, 2022
All ArticlesAl Covington, Associate CISO, Black History Month, Charron Andrus, diversity, Dr. Carmen Robinson, equity, inclusion, Information Technology, UC Berkeley, UC CIO, UC Santa Cruz, UC Tech Assembly, UCB, UCOP, UCSC, Van Williams
Watch the UC Tech Assembly: Black Leaders Panel, which took place on Monday, February 28. The discussion featured Black members of our UC Tech community from various levels of leadership. Topics ranged from personal stories to allyship advice, to…
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UC Tech News
March 9, 2022
All ArticlesEvents, UC San Diego, UC Tech, UC Tech 2022, UCCSC, UCSD, virtual event
By Mark Hersberger. Mark your calendars for August 15-17, 2022, for UC Tech, hosted by UC San Diego. This year we’re offering a hybrid conference for maximum flexibility, including: A virtual component, with all keynotes, breakouts, and panels livestreamed…
Read more about UC Tech Returns August 15-17
UC Tech News
March 2, 2022
All Articlesbenefit, IT Strategic Sourcing, Procurement, Systemwide, systemwide IT agreements, Tom Trappler, UC Systemwide Procurement IT
By Yvonne Tevis. Efforts led by UC Systemwide Procurement’s IT strategic sourcing team achieved almost $70 M in “benefit” for UC in fiscal year 2021 by negotiating contracts with suppliers. That is $25 M more than in the previous year!…
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