Texas Veterans Portal Wins Best of Texas Award
13 Juni 2017 - 2:00PM
Business Wire
Project honored for Best IT Collaboration Among
Organizations
Texas.gov is proud to announce that the Texas Veterans Portal
has received a Best of Texas Award from the Center for
Digital Government for Best IT Collaboration Among Organizations.
The Texas Veterans Portal is an important resource that connects
veterans, their families, caregivers, and survivors to the benefits
they have earned through their military service and the resources
they need to transition back into civilian life.
Originally launched in 2010, the Texas Veterans Portal had
become outdated and lacked many features that are imperative to a
modern-day website. The new Texas Veterans Portal, launched on
Veterans Day, November 11, 2016, showcases how numerous Texas
agencies worked together for more than ten months to improve the
website and produce the best possible resource for Texas veterans.
This group, the Veterans Portal Advisory Committee (VPAC), provided
oversight and input into the project and included participation
from the following agencies:
- Texas Veterans Commission
- Texas Department of Information
Resources
- Texas Health & Human Services
Commission
- Texas Workforce Commission
- TexVet (a Texas A&M Health Science
Center initiative)
- Texas Veterans Land Board
Also involved in the project were Texas NIC, the private entity
that manages the Texas.gov program, and the University of North
Texas, along with a multitude of actual veteran users.
The new and improved Texas Veterans Portal features
mobile-friendly responsive design, a patriotic, respectful look and
feel, organized, easy-to-navigate information architecture and the
ability to search, plain language content in English and Spanish,
“immediate needs” for veterans in crisis, and much more.
Every year, the Center for Digital Government’s Best of Texas
Awards program salutes IT professionals and projects in Texas state
and local government organizations. The Texas Veterans Portal joins
the ranks of top IT projects that have received this prestigious
recognition.
About Texas.gov
Texas.gov is the official website of the state of Texas
(www.texas.gov), and is a collaborative public-private partnership
managed by the Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR).
Texas.gov helps state and local government entities web-enable
their services, and operates without tax funds through a
partnership between the state of Texas and Texas NICUSA, LLC (Texas
NIC). Texas NIC builds, operates, maintains, and markets Texas.gov,
and is part of digital government firm NIC’s family of companies.
Since its launch in 2000, Texas.gov has securely processed more
than 288 million financial transactions and has collected more than
$33 billion on behalf of participating entities.
About NIC
Founded in 1992, NIC Inc. (NASDQ: EGOV) is celebrating 25 years
as the nation’s premier provider of innovative digital government
solutions and secure payment processing, which help make government
interactions more accessible for everyone through technology. The
family of NIC companies has developed a library of more than 12,000
digital government services for more than 4,500 federal, state, and
local government agencies. Among these solutions is the
ground-breaking digital government personal assistant, Gov2Go,
delivering citizens personalized reminders and a single access
point for government interactions. More information is available at
www.egov.com.
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Texas Department of Information ResourcesElliott Sprehe,
512-475-4704elliott.sprehe@dir.texas.gov
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