Press Release

HONOLULU – Governor Josh Green, M.D., has proclaimed October Cybersecurity Awareness Month in Hawai‘i, in recognition of the state’s role in identifying, protecting its citizens from, and responding to cyber threats. “This year marks the 20th year of Cybersecurity Awareness...

Honolulu – The State of Hawaiʻi received an overall grade of A- in the Center for Digital Government’s 2022 Digital States Survey. An “A” grade reflects a state government that has demonstrated “very strong innovation, high performing solutions, and…excellent practices...

HONOLULU - Gov. Ige honored the Office of Enterprise Technology Services' Safe Travels team with a certificate of recognition.  The team was recognized for its invaluable contribution to the Safe Travels Program, which was a multi-layered screening process, that included...

HONOLULU - After two years of collaborative planning between ETS’ Executive Branch stakeholder departments and commercial partners, migration from the physical mainframe computers in the Kalanimoku ETS Data Center to a managed service (referred to Mainframe as a Service or...

HONOLULU – The state recently completed the implementation of a new electronic time and leave system that creates greater accuracy and efficiency in its payroll process. About 13,000 employees in the Executive and Legislative branches, and the Office of  Hawaiian...

HONOLULU – HACCamino, a team from the University of Hawaiʻi, took home the top prize of $4,000 at the Hawaiʻi Annual Code Challenge’s (HAAC) Judging and Presentation Day, which was held over the weekend. HACCamino developed a proof-of-concept app to...

Nearly  200  Hawaii Annual Code Challenge (HACC) people attended the 2021 Kick Off held on Oct. 23. Tech enthusiasts at every level -  from high school students, amateurs, to professional coders and even the tech-at-heart attended the virtual event.  Industry...

HONOLULU -- Gov. David Ige has proclaimed October Cybersecurity Awareness Month in Hawaii in recognition of the state’s role in identifying, protecting its citizens from, and responding to cyber threats.  The governor also marked the occasion by announcing the state’s...

HONOLULU – There were 101,199 successful uploads to the Hawaii SMART Health Card application, from Friday, Sept. 10,  2 a.m., to Thursday, Sept. 16,  2 p.m. This is about 75% of all attempts to create a Hawaii SMART Health Card. ...

HONOLULU – Gov. David Ige and Doug Murdock, chief information officer, Office of Enterprise Technology Services today unveiled the state’s Hawaiʻi SMART Health Card. The card will enable individuals who received their COVID-19 vaccinations in Hawaiʻi to create a state-issued...