Call for Nominations...

The National Electronic Commerce Coordinating Council proudly announces the Cost Effectiveness through e-government Awards for 2003.  All governments face greater and greater budget pressure. Technology projects maximizing revenue and providing cost savings should be recognized as innovative and crucially important to effective government. Great results should be highlighted for others to replicate.  This NECCC award recognizes exemplary state and local e-government technology projects providing quantifiable revenue increases, cost decreases, and which cross multiple organization boundaries affecting multiple stakeholder groups. 

An issue paper will profile nine Award of Merit Winners, selected by functional or program area.  The issue paper will be presented at the 2003 NECCC annual conference in Raleigh, North Carolina. Award winners receive one complimentary admission to the conference and are broadly recognized by press releases.  The committee selects one overall award winner that best exemplifies cost-effectiveness through e-government.  Award areas include:

• Education

• Health and Medicaid

• Tax and Revenue

• Homeland Defense and Public Security

• Human Resources

• General Government

• Procurement

• Judicial

• Other

Deadline...

The nomination process begins with the short form.  Nominations must be submitted electronically.  The submission deadline is June 30, 2003.  A technology project may only be entered in one category. A committee of public sector and private sector members selects the top one to five entrants from each category. Finalists are notified by July 11, 2003.  Finalists are expected complete a longer nomination form between July 11 and July 31, 2003, from which a winner for each category and an overall winner are selected.  A follow-up interview with each category winner may be necessary to accurately profile the project for the NECCC issue paper.

To be eligible for an award, a project must meet all of the following criteria:

• Use technology to achieve revenue maximization, cost savings, or cost containment

• Be partially or fully operational, to the extent to produce measurable benefits, as of April 2003

• Demonstrate rigorous measurement to show results

• Cross multiple organization boundaries or affect multiple stakeholder groups (e.g., agency in state "A" to agency in state "B", state to county, county to county, county to municipality, agency to agency (same bureaucracy), program to program, etc.)

• Results must be replicable and useable by other programs or governments

For more information, contact Evie Barry...