Salt Lake City Mayor Announces New Innovation Department

Source: GovTech Published: February 5th, 2021

As part of an effort to incorporate new technology throughout Salt Lake City government, Mayor Erin Mendenhall announced the creation of its first innovation department during her state of the city address last week. 

The department’s goal, which is a part of a larger technology adoption plan called “Tech Lake City,” aims to implement an integrated software system to enhance internal government functions, along with creating a “digital equity infrastructure.” 

“This team will lead in creating a culture of innovation in city government, helping Salt Lake City to modernize business processes, standardize our approach to project management, improve public transparency, streamline inefficiencies and promote the use of data to drive decisions,” Mendenhall said during a livestream of the address.

One of the inefficiencies the department will tackle is merging its finance and HR management systems, which currently operates on 27 different software systems, into one easy-to-use platform. 

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