In a blog post for Life Well Run, Aaron Zavala, a public works management analyst with the city of Mesquite, Texas, discusses some of the important and exciting new technologies that local government can benefit from now and in the years ahead. Below is an excerpt from his post. If you would like to read the whole post, click here.

“Believe it or not, local government is a great place for new ideas! I would have never imagined that a year into my career, I would have already been to regional transportation sessions planning for autonomous vehicles, explored the usage of Big Data in local government, and have flown Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), or drones, for work. Two years ago, innovation was the last thing on my mind sitting through Dr. Hansen’s Organizational Theory classes. Yet, here I am at the forefront of many new and exciting things in not only local government, but in the world.”