In the City of El Paso, leadership, vision and direction are provided through the Information Technology (IT) Department, with a staff of 65 dedicated professionals. IT encompasses all forms of technology used to create, store, exchange and use information in its various forms (business data, voice conversations, still images, motion pictures, cable TV production, multimedia presentations and other forms including those not yet conceived).

The IT Department oversees telecommunications, enterprise computing systems, e-Government applications, business planning analysis and strategic planning.

City IT assets include more than 200 servers, 3,000 desktop computers, microwave and telecommunications and over 32 application systems.

The City's IT efforts reflect government at its best: providing good stewardship of tax revenues to improve service delivery, citizen access and more efficient operations through innovative technology.