Innovative Solution Wins Utah.Gov Prestigious Award
22 August 2013 - 5:00PM
Business Wire
Today Mark VanOrden, Chief Information Officer for the State of
Utah, announced Utah.Gov has won the Public Technology
Institution’s (PTI) Web 2.0 Award. PTI recognizes public
institutions that excel at engaging citizens, demonstrating
government accountability and enabling department operations
online. Criteria for the award includes: measuring specific tools,
goals, participation rates, system integration, standards and
policies, interoperability, data access and sharing, channel
coordination and performance metrics.
“In this third year of the awards program," said Dale Bowen,
Deputy Executive Director for Program Development of the Public
Technology Institute, “the Web 2.0 and social media applications
demonstrate a new level of sophistication.”
Utah.gov won the award for its Master Data Index, which connects
citizens to vital information and critical government services. It
encourages cross-agency information sharing; enables real-time,
efficient and interactive communications; engages the public in
government decision-making, and empowers government staff through
data access and streamlined processes.
Utah is the first state to build a Master Index of all state
online services, websites, data sources, and social media sites
(Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Instagram, Pinterest, SlideShare,
etc.), including 30 different content types, giving applicable
state employees the capability to add new types as needed from a
convenient user interface. All sources are tagged so that they can
be utilized across multiple platforms and portals. The top
categories currently indexed are business, health, jobs, voting and
elections, public safety and corrections.
“The result is two fold,” said VanOrden. “New websites can
easily pull applicable social media feeds based on multiple points
of data. The Master Index also allows staff to aggregate social
media feeds to one page, the Connect Portal where citizens can see
all the social media. In addition, the new Master Index allows us
to generate customized webpages to display data to citizens in an
infinite number of ways.”
Government employees aware of new social media accounts or data
sources now have the ability to maintain and add any indexed item,
without requiring additional resources from the Utah.gov design
team. This not only saves time, it also allows for the most current
and relevant data to be displayed to citizens. Citizens benefit
from enriched searching due to tagged data and the structure allows
for more qualified, up to date, and relevant information.
To find out more information about Utah.Gov visit:Twitter:
https://twitter.com/UtahGovFacebook:
http://www.utah.gov/facebook/RSS feeds:
http://www.utah.gov/connect/feeds.htmlUtah blogs:
http://www.utah.gov/blogs/
About Utah.Gov
Utah.gov is the entry point to over 1000 online services and
benefits over 2.7 million residents in the State of Utah. Utah.gov
provides citizens and businesses with more convenient options for
interacting with government. Through Utah.gov, citizens can find
public meetings, renew their vehicle registration, buy a hunting
and fishing license, register a business, find a transparent state
budget, and much more. In 2011 alone, Utah.gov received an
unprecedented 17 awards making it the nation’s most honored state
website.
Utah.gov is the official Web portal for the State of Utah
(http://www.Utah.Gov). It is managed and operated without
tax funds through a public-private partnership between the state
and Utah Interactive, the Salt Lake City-based official eGovernment
partner for the state of Utah. Utah Interactive is part of
eGovernment firm NIC’s family of companies.
About NIC
NIC (NASDAQ: EGOV) is the nation's leading provider of
government Web sites, online services, and secure payment
processing solutions. The company's innovative eGovernment services
help reduce costs and increase efficiencies for government
agencies, citizens, and businesses across the country. The NIC
family of companies provides eGovernment solutions for more than
3,500 federal, state, and local agencies across the United States.
Additional information is available at http://www.egov.com.
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