State of Arkansas Wins National Award for Innovative Technology
26 September 2016 - 2:00PM
Business Wire
Gov2Go, nation’s first personal government
assistant, wins NASCIO award for Emerging & Innovative
Technologies
The National Association of State Chief Information Officers
(NASCIO) has recognized the State of Arkansas as a winner in the
State IT Recognition Awards program in the Emerging &
Innovative Technologies category for Gov2Go, the state's
citizen-centric personal government assistant. Only 11 exemplary
initiatives were chosen as recipients for the 2016 Recognition
Awards from among 139 nominees nationwide.
Mark Myers, Arkansas’ chief technology officer and director of
the Arkansas Department of Information Services, attended the
NASCIO awards ceremony in Orlando and accepted the award on behalf
of the state.
“Arkansas has an impressive resume of national firsts in
government technology achievements,” Myers said. “We are honored to
be recognized by NASCIO for Gov2Go as another example of how we
continually work to create innovative ways to connect citizens to
government.”
Developed by the Information Network of Arkansas (INA) in 2015,
Gov2Go is the nation’s first digital government assistant that
breaks down agency silos and delivers citizen-centric government
interactions through a single channel. Gov2Go provides personalized
and timely information to more than 180,000 Arkansans—such as
property assessment and tax payments, car tag renewals and business
franchise tax—and sends reminders about these government services
to the user’s computer, mobile device or Apple Watch. This week INA
announced the release of new Gov2Go elections features, in
partnership with the Arkansas Secretary of State, that help
Arkansans receive information for the November general election
personalized to their voting district.
“The recipients honored tonight, as well as all nominated
projects, demonstrate the integral and transformative nature
information technology can have on state government and the
experiences of citizens,” Delaware Chief Information Officer James
Collins and Indiana Chief Information Officer Dewand Neely said in
a press release issued by NASCIO.
The NASCIO Recognition awards are given annually to states that
have implemented exceptional programs that have made an important
contribution to the operation of state government. The prestigious
award program, in its 28th consecutive year, honors outstanding
information technology achievements in the public sector.
In August, Gov2Go and Arkansas Auditor of State’s ClaimItAR.com
were both announced by NASCIO as award finalists. ClaimItAR was
named a finalist for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of
Information Technology. ClaimItAR helps Arkansans find and claim
lost property in minutes on a mobile device and automates a
previously paper-based unclaimed property filing process.
ClaimItAR.com was also recognized as a NASCIO award finalist in
2015 in the Government to Citizen category.
Gov2Go has won several other national awards for innovation
including StateScoop 50 State Innovation of the Year in 2016,
finalist in the Government Computer News 2016 “DIG IT” Award
competition, top eight finalist in the American Council of
Technology’s Industry Advisory Council (ACT-IAC) 2016 Igniting
Innovation Award, and a finalist in the 2015 Amazon Web Services
City on a Cloud Innovation Challenge.
NASCIO’s official announcement of the achievement awards can be
found at
http://www.nascio.org/Newsroom/ArtMID/484/ArticleID/418/NASCIO-Recognizes-Outstanding-Achievement-in-State-Government.
About Information Network of Arkansas
The Information Network of Arkansas (INA) is a public-private
partnership between the state of Arkansas and the Arkansas
Information Consortium (AIC) that helps state government entities
Web-enable their information services. Little Rock-based AIC is
part of eGovernment firm NIC's (EGOV) family of companies. INA
operates Arkansas.gov, the official website of the state of
Arkansas, which offers more than 750 state and local online
services.
About NIC
Founded in 1992, NIC (NASDAQ: EGOV) is the nation's leading
provider of innovative government solutions and secure payment
processing, which help make government more accessible to everyone
through technology. The family of NIC companies provides digital
government solutions for more than 4,500 federal, state, and local
agencies in the United States. Forbes has named NIC as one of the
“100 Best Small Companies in America” six times and the company has
been included four times on the Barron’s 400 Index. Additional
information is available at http://www.egov.com.
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Information Network of ArkansasBob Sanders,
501-324-8915bob@ark.orgorArkansas Department of Information
SystemsJanet Wilson, 501-683-1791janet.wilson@arkansas.gov
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