Roseville, Calif.: A Sleepy Railroad Town Grows Up Digitally

Roseville, Calif., is striving to innovate to keep pace with the needs of the city’s booming and sophisticated population. One of the fastest growing cities in the nation, Roseville’s population has increased nearly 500 percent in the past 30 years. Once known as a sleepy railroad hub northeast of the state capital of Sacramento, the city of Roseville is now home to 120,000 people, some of them San Francisco supercommuters and affluent business owners.

Consequently, citizen expectations are high in Roseville. So the city’s philosophy is to put technology at the center of all its business operations to drive local progress.

Ongoing success, said Roseville’s CIO, Hong Sae, can be largely attributed to the city’s desire to keep its spot as a technology leader and to forge strong relationships between IT and the city’s business units — remaining agile in the process. "One of the areas that we’re really embracing is: ‘IT becomes the business itself,’" Hong said.

By Colin Wood

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