Awards & Recognition

• Must involve at least one state government entity
• Should include significant collaboration with other public groups such as localities, higher education institutions, tribal governments, or not-for-profit organizations
• Private partnerships can support the collaboration, but the state government entity must document a leadership role

• Performance Management
• Budgeting
• Criminal Justice
• Emergency Management
• Taxation and Revenues
• Human Services
• Health
• Education
• Workforce Training

• Data and information architecture
• Data warehouses/data marts, data mining and repositories
• Data and information integration
• Data quality
• Metadata and master data management
• E-Discovery
• Knowledge management
• Information life-cycle management
• Analytics, business intelligence, performance management
• Support and development of the knowledge worker and workplace

• Longevity of the service
• Target audience and the current adoption rate
• Outreach campaigns to encourage use
• Steps taken to ensure data and transactional security
• Performance measures and client satisfaction data

• e-Licensing
• One-stop registration
• Permitting
• Payment
• Reporting
• Notifications
• Compliance tracking

• Longevity of the service
• Target audience and the current adoption rate
• Outreach campaigns to encourage use
• Steps taken to ensure data and transactional security
• Performance measures and client satisfaction data

Potential projects which fit under this category include but are not limited to…

• Innovations in online transactions
• Social networking
• Citizen feedback and commenting
• Personalized mapping and service location trackers

• Longevity of the service
• Target audience and the current adoption rate
• Outreach campaigns to encourage use
• Steps taken to ensure data and transactional security
• Performance measures and client satisfaction data

• State government-wide information systems
• Integrated justice systems
• Health information exchange
• Multi-state sharing and reusable technology solutions
• Information sharing
• Geographic information systems
• Services that leverage a common solution across two or more federal, state, local and/or tribal governments

• People
• Hardware
• Software
• Costs

State-wide initiatives which fit under this category include but are not limited to…

• Government transformation
• Consolidation and shared services
• Budget and cost control
• Security
• Enterprise resource planning
• Governance and policy-setting
• Transparency
• Innovative funding and financing mechanisms
• Project and portfolio management
• IT sourcing and procurement
• Implementation of best practice management structures such as ITIL, CoBIT and the ISO/IEC 20000 standards to improve service delivery and accountability

• IT sourcing
• IT asset management
• Infrastructure optimization
• Legacy modernization renovation and replacement
• Use of business analytics and intelligence
• Fraud detection
• Provisions for government transparency and accountability
• Procurement and contracting
• Identity and access management
• Green technologies
• Cloud computing

• Online learning
• Geographic information systems
• Wireless applications
• Mobile services
• Software as a service (SaaS)
• Cloud computing
• Broadband applications
• Interface improvements that encourage broader use of Web 2.0 platforms by citizens like social media, mashups, and crowd sourcing

• Longevity of the service
• Target audience and the current adoption rate
• Outreach campaigns to encourage use
• Steps taken to ensure data and transactional security
• Performance measures and client satisfaction data

• Transparency websites related to budget spending, financial reporting and stimulus tracking
• Streaming content from public meetings
• Easy access to raw government data
• Public comment and feedback mechanisms
• E-democracy initiatives such as legislative tracking and monitoring
• Use of social media tools
• Tools and services for self organizing by citizens
• Initiatives to provide open and on-demand access for other government organizations such as citizens, the media and/or not-for-profit groups

• IT security and privacy challenges related to:
  • Internal and external threats
  • System and application vulnerabilities
  • Remote or mobile access
  • Incident management/incident response
  • Measurement of program effectiveness and compliance
• Related IT security initiatives such as:
  • Enterprise strategic planning and governance frameworks
  • Enterprise security policy and program management
  • Critical infrastructure risk assessments
  • Identity and access management
  • Education and awareness programs
  • Initiatives to create a privacy culture
  • Efforts to organize for IT security
• DRP and COG efforts to support on-going government operations through:
  • Planning methodologies
  • Infrastructure protection
  • Security systems or recovery mechanisms
  • Contingency planning, disaster recovery, and business resumption
  • Homeland security
  • Health or pandemic alerting
• Activities that address the protection of sensitive and confidential citizen, business and other state customer information, and its availability in the event of disruption