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Award recipients were announced in press releases and letters to governors and other elected officials. In the past, the NASCIO Recognition Awards have been featured in several national publications and award recipients have gone on to win in other prestigious competitions. The award recipients were also honored at the 2007 NASCIO annual conference in Tucson, Arizona.
Includes summaries of the 2007 Award recipients.
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Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery This category addresses IT initiatives related to continuity of government operations which make states better prepared for major incidents such as natural or man-made disasters, pandemic flu and major infrastructure failures. Whether through planning methodologies, management information systems, infrastructure protection, security systems or recovery mechanisms, IT initiatives may enable government business to recover from security attacks, disasters, equipment failures or acts of terrorism. Business continuity or disaster recovery initiatives may relate to contingency planning, disaster recovery, homeland security, health alerts and business resumption. RECIPIENT: District of Columbia Unified Communications Center
Cross-Boundary Collaboration and Partnerships This category addresses coordinating, sharing, integrating or joining up of IT related goals and strategies, governance and management, policies, architecture and standards, business processes, data and information, systems and applications, services, technologies and infrastructure. Collaboration or partnerships must involve a public entity and may include collaboration with other public groups, higher education institutions, private or not-for-profit sectors. Examples of functional and service areas may include criminal justice, emergency management, taxation and revenues, human services, health, education, and workforce training. RECIPIENT: State of Texas Data Center Services (DCS) Project
Data, Information and Knowledge Management This category addresses strategies, processes, applications and solutions, initiatives or programs using, processing or creating data, information, knowledge and intellectual value, property or capital. Examples may include data and information architecture, data warehouses / data marts, data mining, repositories, analytics, business intelligence, data and information integration, metadata and master data management, knowledge management, information life-cycle management, data quality and supporting and developing the knowledge worker and workplace. Outcomes and benefits may include the provision of information related content and services, as well as support for development of policies, performance assessments, decision-making and making government more transparent. RECIPIENT: Minnesota Program Integrity Efforts: Preventing and Eliminating Welfare Fraud
Digital Government: Government to Business (G to B) For innovative applications that foster less cost to business for regulatory compliance; setting up and growing a business; and day-to-day government-to-business interactions. Examples include innovative portal services, one-stop solutions, provisions for transparent transactions, registering, compliance tracking, notifications, automating licensing, permitting, reporting, payment, procurement, and similar services. RECIPIENT: Washington Enterprise Business Portal Initiative
Digital Government: Government to Citizen (G to C) For governmental applications that provide innovative service to citizens or increase government’s efficiency with citizen interaction. Acceptable submissions include any type of electronic interface and may demonstrate self-service portal applications, personalization, subscription or notification features. Examples of digital government applications include unemployment compensation, welfare benefits, licensing, vehicle registration, justice/safety programs, insurance, retirement programs, environmental service, or tax collection. Efficiency improvements such as e-voting, on-line permitting, and on-line bill payment will also be considered. Include details about the longevity of the service, target audience and the current adoption rate. Reference any performance measures and citizen satisfaction data. Include any development and/or training initiatives that ensure expanded access to, and independent use of these services by people with disabilities or others who would not normally have easy access to digital government initiatives. RECIPIENT: Michigan.Gov release 2.0
Digital Government: Government to Government (G to G) For digital government initiatives aimed at enhancing intergovernmental collaboration, cross-jurisdictional services and intergovernmental transaction processing. Examples include state government-wide information systems, integrated justice systems, health information systems, multi-state systems sharing, information sharing, geographic information systems and similar services that leverage a common solution across two or more federal, state, local and / or tribal governments. RECIPIENT: North Carolina eCitation
Enterprise IT Management Initiatives This category represents state initiatives to completely plan, organize and execute enterprise-wide initiatives. Recognizing the continued fiscal pressures within state governments, please describe the enterprise innovations that have helped states more effectively address or manage their changing budgetary demands. Focus areas should be on solutions that employ policies, best practices and processes for enterprise change management, workforce development, governance or transformation. Initiatives related to development or implementation of a solution-based enterprise architecture framework, consisting of technical, business, information and service-oriented architectures will be considered in this category. This category may include state-wide efforts in the areas of policy-setting, public/private partnerships, and outsourcing, and may include implementation of best practice management structures such as CoBIT, ITIL and the ISO/IEC 20000 standards to improve service delivery and accountability. The Awards Committee encourages submissions that address 2007 CIO priority areas, including consolidation, shared-service provision/service-level management, implementing federal mandates (e.g., REAL ID, NCLB, etc.), or leveraging health information technology. RECIPIENT: Michigan Data Center Consolidation
Information Communications Technology (ICT) Innovations This award category covers initiatives or services to promote economic development, interoperability and improve quality of life. This may be accomplished by facilitating or providing communications capabilities that enable state government to operate more efficiently and effectively or offer more innovative, responsive, and personalized services to citizens. Initiatives or services could be unique uses of current technology or the application of leading-edge technology. Examples include specialized customer information delivery systems, multimedia learning applications, technologies enabling rehabilitation, geographic information systems, artificial intelligence (AI) systems, media delivery independent systems such as wireless applications (i.e., PDA, mobile, or remote computing). Other examples include interface improvements that encourage broader use of technologies by citizens. Challenges in this area include low-cost broadband connectivity for all citizens regardless of geographic location or economic status, and solutions to regulatory compliance related to broadband spectrum and the FCC. RECIPIENT: Virginia Department of Forestry Integrated Forest Information Resource System (IFRIS)
Information Security and Privacy This award category encompasses both IT security and privacy as strategic initiatives. Nominations should be initiatives designed to improve the security and/or privacy posture of state government. These initiatives may include cybersecurity, risk assessment, data security, IT security awareness, crisis communications, privacy frameworks, or homeland security concerns. Challenges in this area include automated or directed external threats, hardware or software vulnerabilities, remote or mobile access, insider threats, incident management, or crisis handling. Examples also include education and awareness programs, state-level leadership and mentoring, initiatives to create a privacy culture, and efforts to organize for IT security. RECIPIENTS: Michigan Security 2.0: Next Generation Security Program and Pennsylvania Information Security Architecture
IT Project and Portfolio Management For state initiatives which have developed a framework, governance processes, policies and systems for the efficient management of IT investments from concept, funding, implementation, operation to retirement. This category can include activities designed to improve the investment evaluation and selection process for IT projects; improving the project management discipline through training, mentoring, and career-path efforts; strengthening the management of individual projects to ensure that funds are being expended properly and that projects are within scope, schedule and quality; or projects to improve the management of the state’s existing IT project portfolio. Individual projects may also be submitted based on the merits of the project, rather than the product of the project. RECIPIENT: North Dakota Building Project Manager Competencies Via the Mentor/Apprentice Relationship
