NASCIO's Recognition Awards Program, celebrating its 20th consecutive year, features categories reflecting the wide range of IT projects currently under development within state governments. Emphasis was placed on recognizing programs that exemplify best practices, support the public policy goals of state leaders, represent an innovative use of existing technology or a use of new technology, assist government officials to efficiently execute their duties, provide cost-effective service to citizens and are transferable to other agencies or units of government.
"State information technology best practices should be promoted and shared," said Oklahoma Deputy Director of IT and NASCIO Awards Committee Chair, Joe Fleckinger. "Recognizing NASCIO's 20th year of the program, NASCIO's leadership has revised the process and expanded recognition to a field of finalists. The program provides a showcase of innovative initiatives from across the nation and encourages state governments to continue to focus on efficiency, excellence and quality service to citizens."
Thirty exemplary initiatives were chosen as finalists from 114 submissions by 30 states. NASCIO's Awards committee, composed of NASCIO state and corporate members representing leading public and private IT organizations, selected the 2008 award finalists. One initiative in each category will be honored as the award recipient during the state dinner and award presentation at NASCIO's annual conference on September 23 in Milwaukee.
The following is a list of award finalists organized by category:
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
- California -- Computer Aided Dispatch System
- Michigan -- Enterprise Storage, Backup and Recovery
- Minnesota -- Health-Related Licensing Boards Continuation of Operations Plan
- California -- Los Angeles Regional Transportation Management Center
- Michigan -- Michigan Surface Water Information Management System
- Tennessee -- eHealth Exchange Zone: The Nation's First Statewide Health Information Network
- California -- California's eBudget Solution
- Pennsylvania -- JNET Statewide Consolidated Warrant Search
- Virginia -- Virginia Knowledge Center
- District of Columbia -- CBE Resource Center: Promoting the Home Field Advantage
- Hawaii -- Hawaii Compliance Express
- Oklahoma -- Oklahoma State Treasurer's Electronic Trading System
- District of Columbia -- The CapStat Website: Building a City that Works
- Michigan -- Direct Certification Program
- Minnesota -- RxPrice Compare
- Michigan -- Wildland Fire Application
- Minnesota -- Applications for Road Closures, Routing
- and Common Operating Picture for the Interstate 35W Bridge Collapse
- Pennsylvania -- National Hydrography Dataset Data Stewardship and Enterprise Water Applications
- California -- Office of Systems Integration: Large Project Management
- Missouri -- Active Directory and E-Mail Consolidation Project
- Virginia -- Virginia Information Technology Infrastructure Partnership
- Arkansas -- Implementing the Arkansas Wireless Information Network
- California -- Telecommunications Infrastructure Replacement Project
- Michigan -- MI Drive Web Site Project
- Michigan -- Utilizing PCI Compliance to Improve Enterprise Risk Management
- Pennsylvania -- Security Incident Response Process
- District of Columbia -- Tapping into the Stock Market Model for Washington, DC's IT Governance
- North Carolina -- Software Quality Assurance (SQA) Services Offered in a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Delivery Model
- Pennsylvania -- Enterprise Program Management Office: A Focus on Project Management Commitment