Gov2Go, nation’s first personal government assistant, wins NASCIO
award for Emerging & Innovative Technologies
Company Website:
http://www.arkansas.gov
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- (Business Wire)
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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Contacts:
Information Network of Arkansas
Bob Sanders, 501-324-8915
bob@ark.org
or
Arkansas
Department of Information Systems
Janet Wilson, 501-683-1791
janet.wilson@arkansas.gov
Source: Information Network of Arkansas
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