ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- (Business Wire)
Maryland’s official website, www.maryland.gov,
was recently honored with a Silver
Award of Distinction for Creative Excellence in Communications by
the 22nd Annual Communicator Awards. In addition, one of the
most popular digital government services, the AccessDNR Apple Watch app,
won “Innovation
of the Year” from the StateScoop 50 Awards.
These significant achievements reinforce the pursuit of excellence and
commitment to create innovative and useful access points to state
government services for all Marylanders.
“We are proud to work with our government partners to develop innovative
digital government services that deliver efficiencies to the citizens
and businesses they serve,” said Janet Grard, NIC Maryland General
Manager.
Over the past two years, the Maryland.gov website has been awarded 22
national and international awards for its creativity and innovation in
web design, usability, and mobile development for a government website.
The state’s award-winning website, www.maryland.gov,
serves as the gateway for a record-breaking 84 million online visitors
each year, including 32 percent visiting from a mobile device.
With a strong focus on serving the community, Maryland was the first
state to introduce citizen-centric user personalization with the
MyMaryland clipboard allowing visitors to clip and save links for future
use. In addition, citizens can search public meetings and events and
access more than 250 time-saving digital services including vehicle and
boating registration, hunting and fishing licenses, business
registration, children’s services, and more.
Marylanders can use the AccessDNR mobile app to locate state parks,
available amenities, hunting locations, and more. When paired with
the Apple Watch, the mobile app helps users easily discover water trails
and boat launches directly on their wrist. The AccessDNR mobile app and
Apple Watch app can be downloaded from the Apple
App Store or through Google
Play App Store for Android users.
These digital government services were developed at no charge for the
state of Maryland by NIC
Maryland, through the self-funded eGovernment services contract with
the State
Department of Information Technology (DoIT).
About NIC Maryland
NIC
Maryland builds, operates, maintains, and markets the official
website of the state of Maryland, www.maryland.gov
and its digital government services. NIC Maryland is a collaborative
public/private partnership managed by the Department of Information
Technology (DoIT) and NIC Maryland. NIC Maryland develops innovative
digital government services for Maryland state and local government
entities and operates without tax funds through a self-funded
eGovernment services contract.
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 https://www.egov.com.
About Awards
The Communicator Awards is an annual competition honoring the best in
advertising, corporate communications, public relations, andidentity
work for print, video, interactive, and audio. This year’s Communicator
Awards received thousands of entries from companies andagencies
of all sizes, making it one of the largest awards of its kind in theworld.
Please visit www.communicatorawards.com
for more information.
The StateScoop 50 Awards honors innovators, innovative initiatives, and
up-and-coming leaders in state and local government. This year’s
recipients were selected by members of the state and local government IT
community in a nationwide voting process. More than 80,000 votes were
cast on StateScoop, narrowing down hundreds of readers’ nominations in
six categories, to select this year’s StateScoop 50 winners. For more
information on StateScoop 50 visit http://statescoop.com/statescoop-announces-2016-winners-of-statescoop-50-leadership-program-awards.
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Contacts:
NIC Maryland
Janet Grard, 443-924-7405
jgrard@egov.com
Source: NIC Maryland
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