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http://www.Maine.gov
AUGUSTA, Maine -- (Business Wire)
The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry’s
Campground Reservations service (www.campwithme.com)
was recently named IT Program of the Year by the StateScoop 50.
The national award comes at a time when reservations and visitations at
Maine State Parks are higher compared to last year’s record-setting
totals. In 2015, 2,626,416 people visited Maine State Parks, the highest
attendance since 1985. Through April 2016, total attendance (day use and
camping) is up 45% compared to last year.
“Maine is open for business and our Campground Reservations service is
an example of how state government is becoming more efficient, effective
and responsive to taxpayers and summer visitors,” said Governor Paul R.
LePage. “Continuous improvement throughout state government is our
shared goal. Hard working Maine taxpayers deserve nothing less.”
Commissioner Walt Whitcomb highlighted how the improvements directly
benefit consumers. “We want visitors to our state parks to have an
enjoyable experience, starting with ease in making reservations,” said
Whitcomb. “Campers often have their hearts set on a certain site and on
particular dates. It is important that our online service allows them to
book what they want reliably, efficiently and securely. Awards and
positive recognition from both inside and outside state government
reinforces our belief that we are meeting this goal.”
StateScoop is a national publication that features leaders and
innovators in government technology.
StateScoop 50 awards:
Approximately 80,000 votes were cast for the StateScoop 50 awards,
narrowing down hundreds of nominations to just 50 winners in the
categories of IT Program of the Year, Innovation of the Year, Industry
Leadership, Up and Comer, State Leadership, and State Executives of the
Year.
Maine’s Campground Reservations service:
The service is a web-based reservation system that allows users to
reserve nights at any of Maine’s twelve state parks. Prior to this
solution, users were provided an online form to request a campsite. When
the season began, nearly 3,000 people would be vying for similar sites
and dates, all of which had to be manually processed by the call center
staff, a process that took almost a month to complete.
Reservations are now processed online by users for Sebago State Park on
the first opening day and for all other parks on the second opening day
which occurs one week later. The web-based system reliably handles the
opening day rush, processing hundreds of transactions in the first
fifteen minutes of each opening day. What used to take weeks to process
now takes roughly a half hour.
The Campground Reservations service was developed through a
collaboration with Maine’s digital government partner, Maine Information
Network, LLC, a subsidiary of NIC, at no cost to taxpayers.
About Maine.gov
Maine.gov (http://www.Maine.gov)
is the official Web portal of the State of Maine. Maine.gov is a service
of InforME, a collaborative effort between the state of Maine and Maine
Information Network, LLC, part of the NIC (NASDAQ: EGOV) family of
companies.
About NIC
Founded in 1992, NIC (NASDAQ: EGOV) is the nation's leading provider of
innovative digital 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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Source: Maine.gov
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