New Jersey DEP Wins Multiple Awards for Mobile App That Lets Public Report Nonemergency Environmental Incidents
24 Mai 2017 - 2:00PM
Business Wire
The Department of Environmental Protection’s WARN NJDEP mobile
device app was recently awarded with a 2017 Gold Hermes Creative
Award, Commissioner Bob Martin announced today. Earlier this year,
the Association of Marketing and Communication Professional (AMCP)
also honored the WARN NJDEP mobile app with an AVA Digital Gold
Award.
The Hermes Creative Awards is an international competition for
creative professionals involved in the concept, writing, and design
of traditional materials and programs, and emerging technologies.
The competition has grown to one of the largest of its kind in the
world with more than 6,000 entries from corporate marketing and
communications departments, advertising agencies, PR firms, design
shops, production companies, and freelancers. AMCP judges selected
winners whose talent exceeds a high standard of excellence and
whose work serves as a benchmark for the industry.
The WARN NJDEP mobile app, launched last November, complements
the DEP’s telephone hotline, 877-WARNDEP (877-927-6337),
which has been in operation for many years. The app can be
downloaded through Google Play, the Apple app store, and the
Microsoft app store. Enter WARN NJDEP in the search bar.
The app is not intended for reports of life-threatening
and/or environmental emergencies. These should be reported by
calling 9-1-1, local police or the DEP’s hotline. Also, the app is
NOT to be utilized by regulated entities as an acceptable method
for fulfilling notification requirements to the DEP.
Examples of nonemergency incidents that may be reported through
the app include improper storage or disposal of waste and other
materials, odor complaints, smaller sewage leaks, smoke and dust
complaints, underground storage tank incidents, and wetlands or
stream encroachment issues.
The app allows users to provide essential information on the
type of environmental incident, the date, and time of the incident,
whether it is ongoing, and a brief description of what happened.
The app utilizes GPS technology to pinpoint location of
environmental incidents and allows users to submit photos as part
of their reports to the DEP.
Users may provide their contact information, although they may
choose to report incidents anonymously, as has been the case for
years through the DEP hotline number system. The app provides a
one-touch link, allowing the user to call the DEP’s Communications
Center and directly speak to a dispatcher, if that is the user’s
preference.
The DEP’s Communications Center is staffed 24 hours a day, every
day of the year and receives some 100,000 calls annually on a wide
range of incidents, such as nuisance wildlife complaints,
wildfires, hazardous material releases, and wetlands and other
land-use violations. The center works to assign cases within the
DEP or to appropriate county and local agencies.
For more on the awards program, visit:
http://hermesawards.com.
The WARN NJDEP mobile app is a product of a partnership between
the state of New Jersey and the New Jersey Information Division of
NICUSA, Inc. New Jersey Information Division of NICUSA, Inc. is the
official digital government partner of the state of New Jersey,
helping New Jersey government entities Web-enable their information
services.
About NIC
NIC (NASDAQ: EGOV), which is celebrating 25 years as a company
in 2017, has seen the transition of digital services from
green-screen computers to mobile apps and artificial intelligence.
Founded in 1992, NIC is the nation's premier provider of innovative
government solutions and secure payment processing, which help make
government more accessible and convenient for everyone through
technology. The family of NIC companies has a library of more than
12,000 digital government solutions for more than 4,500 federal,
state and local agencies in the United States. Among those
solutions is the ground-breaking personal digital government
assistant, Gov2Go, aimed at providing constituents easy, personal
interactions with government. Additional information is available
at www.egov.com.
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New Jersey Information Division of NICUSA, Inc.Casey Faiman,
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