Press Release

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

  HONOLULU – The State’s Hawaii Department Dashboard has been recognized with the first ever Chaucer Digital Innovation Award in the North America category. An initiative by the Office of Enterprise Technology Services (ETS), the Hawaii Department Dashboard is a ...
Read More STATE’S HAWAII DEPARTMENT DASHBOARD RECOGNIZED BY GLOBAL COMPANY

HONOLULU – A six-month paper reduction program piloted by the Office of Enterprise Technology Services has reduced paper use by 20 percent, which translates to a savings of one million sheets of printed paper. The paper reduction program aligns with ...
Read More STATE’S PAPER REDUCTION PILOT PROGRAM SAVES MONEY, RESOURCES

HONOLULU — The Hawaii Annual Code Challenge (HACC) has been awarded the State IT Innovation of the Year award by StateScoop, the leading government IT media company in the nation’s capital. HACC was selected among 49 finalists from across the ...
Read More Governor Ige’s HACC Recognized with National Award