Philadelphia Works to Embed Innovation in the City's People, Places, Processes

Government Technology: Philadelphia has been busy adding to its Office of Innovation and Technology workforce by hiring -- in three years' time -- 20 employees, some with creative titles like procurement advocate, data scientist and, soon, storyteller.

According to Adel Ebeid, the city's chief innovation officer, the new talents and titles are deliberate choices for the city to build up its innovation capacity, which is a means for the city to answer internal issues with creative solutions and to make external connections with its citizens and the local tech community.

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