Press Release

  HONOLULU – Gov. David Ige has proclaimed Labor Day (Sept. 2) to Sept.6 as Payroll Week in Hawaii, honoring nearly 350 state payroll professionals across all departments.  These individuals oversee, direct and process payroll checks for nearly 70,000 employees ...
Read More Hawaii Joins National Celebration of Payroll Week

HONOLULU – Governor David Ige has signed House Bill 531 into law as Act 238.  The new law requires the Office of Enterprise Technology Services’ chief information officer to update the State Information Technology Plan every four years and to ...
Read More GOVERNOR SIGNS IT STRATEGIC PLAN UPDATE INTO LAW

HONOLULU — The Hawaii State Senate voted to confirm Douglas Murdock as The Office of Enterprise Technology Services’ (ETS) chief information officer (CIO).  He is the fourth person confirmed by the Senate to serve as CIO since the position was ...
Read More Hawaii State Senate Confirms Douglas Murdock as ETS Chief Information Officer

HONOLULU — Gov. David Y. Ige today announced the state’s participation in the Girls Go CyberStart Initiative, which encourages young women to explore the cybersecurity and computer science fields. The initiative gives girls, grades 9-12, the opportunity to solve challenges ...
Read More Hawaiʻi joins partnership to encourage young women to explore careers in cybersecurity

HONOLULU – Gov. David Ige announced that all state employees have successfully transitioned to a modern, efficient payroll system, transforming the way the state and its employees conduct business. On the first pay date of the year on Jan. 4, ...
Read More All State of Hawaiʻi Employees Now on New Revolutionary Payroll System

HONOLULU — The State of Hawaii Office of Enterprise Technology (ETS) is piloting a language translation application, which translates content into 80 different languages. The app was created through a collaboration between ETS and Google Cloud, using the Google Cloud ...
Read More ETS’ COLLABORATION WITH GOOGLE CLOUD LEADS TO DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGE TRANSLATION APPLICATION

HONOLULU – Hawaii State Chief Information Officer (CIO) Todd Nacapuy is returning to the private sector after serving the State for nearly four years. He will remain on the job until December 31, 2018 to assist with transition. “It has ...
Read More CIO Nacapuy to Step Down at the End of the Year

HONOLULU — Team Pika took home the top prize at this year’s Hawaii Annual Code Challenge (HACC). Team Pika presented a solution for how to track the energy consumption by the University of Hawaii, one of the state’s largest energy ...
Read More Team Pika Wins 2018 Hawaii Annual Code Challenge

HONOLULU — Gov. David Ige proclaimed Cybersecurity Awareness Month in Hawaii today in recognition of the state’s role in identifying, protecting its citizens from, and responding to cyber threats that may have significant impact to individual and collective security and ...
Read More OCTOBER IS CYBERSECURITY AWARENESS MONTH IN HAWAII

HONOLULU – Hawaii is ranked first among fifty states in emerging technologies/innovation, according to the Center for Digital Government’s 2018 Digital States Survey. It also ranked second for its exemplary work in support of collaboration. In addition to those rankings, ...
Read More Digital States Survey Ranks Hawaii First in Emerging Technologies