The City of Bellevue is dedicated to fostering a sustainable culture of inclusive innovation to ensure that innovation works for everyone. The Information Technology Department supports many types of innovation across the city including pilots, events and community engagement. Learn more about these projects and volunteer to help advance innovation inside and outside of city hall.
Focus areas
- Digital equity — expanding access and opportunity across the region.
- Partnerships — linking public, private, academic, and community organizations.
- Civic innovation — designing better services, tools, and experiences for residents.
- Economic growth and resilience — supporting startups and small businesses.
Sub-teams
To support the Innovation Program's work centered on partnership development, service experience and design improvements, and economic growth and resilience, the formation of sub-teams developed into the following key areas:
Digital Equity
Digital Equity is to empower all individuals in the community to fully participate in the digital world, irrespective of their background, race, income, language, education or geographic location.
Prioritization and Policy
The Innovation Forum's Prioritization and Policy Sub Team provides meaningful input to city staff on community innovation priorities through the development of a Bellevue innovation framework.
Innovation Ecosystem
Innovation Ecosystems intends to grow collaboration and beneficial relationships between startups, nonprofits, corporations, investors, academia and residents—to foster innovation that impacts the entire community and drives digital equity and economic growth.