Cross-Boundary Collaboration on IT Initiatives

• Electronic Motor Voter
  Virginia Departments of Elections, Motor Vehicles

IT as Efficiency Driver – Government to Citizen

• Virginia Ethics Search Portal
  Division of Legislative Automated Systems

• Digital Courtrooms Upgrade
  Fairfax County Courts

IT as Efficiency Driver – Government to Business

• Site Selector Application
  Roanoke County

IT as Efficiency Driver – Government to Government

• County Demographics Website
  Prince William County

• Utility Map Viewer
  City of Charlottesville

• State Pointer Exchange Services
  Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles

Innovative Use of Technology in Local Government

• Social Services Cloud Hosted Case Management
  Chesterfield County

Innovative Use of Technology in Education

• Cyber Range Initiative
  Virginia Cyber Range

• JMU X-Labs
  James Madison University

Innovative Use of Big Data and Analytics

• Zika Disease Testing Request Approval System
  Virginia Department of Health

• Democratizing Open Data
  Fairfax County

Innovative Use of Open Data

• Opiod Addiction Indicators Dashboard
  Virginia Department of Health

• Smarter-Roads Data Portal
  Virginia Department of Transportation

Best Citizen Portal

• Website Redesign
  Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services

• powhatanva.gov
  Powhatan County

• jamescitycountyva.gov
  James City County

Images from this year's conference now are posted online for use by winners. The collection includes photographs of Datathon presentations and winners, and Governor's Technology Award winners' team shots.

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  • Cross-boundary collaboration on IT initiatives: Recognizes the innovative use of IT to share data easily across boundaries, create a knowledge-sharing culture, support common business processes or promote innovative partnership programs. Entries should be submitted jointly by at least two government entities.
  • IT as efficiency driver - government to citizen: Recognizes the innovative use of IT to improve citizen access to and service from governmental entities. Included are projects that improve citizens' electronic interaction with government, promote availability, usability and/or transparency of information, and increase public awareness and adoption of services.
  • IT as efficiency driver - government to business: Recognizes the innovative use of IT to promote efficiency by improving business access to and service from governmental entities. Included are projects to improve electronic interaction of businesses with government, promote availability, usability and/or transparency of information, and increase business awareness and adoption of available services.
  • IT as efficiency driver - government to government: Recognizes the innovative use of IT to promote efficiency in government. This category recognizes projects that enable organizations to do more with less. Results realized may include a dollar return on investment, realignment of staff time and/or newly transparent processes/information.
  • Innovative use of technology in local government: Recognizes the innovative use of IT to solve a business problem at the local level. This category is open to any local government entity, including social services, first responders and geographic information systems (GIS)practitioners.
  • Innovative use of technology in education: Recognizes the innovative use of IT to support the unique missions of Virginia's schools, colleges and universities. Cooperative projects between educational institutions and other governmental entities, including research and development programs, fall into this category.
  • Innovative use of big data and analytics: Recognizes the innovative use of technology in collecting, storing, retrieving and analyzing a variety of structured and unstructured data sources.
  • Innovative use of open data: Recognizes the innovative use of technology and transparency in making data available to citizens, businesses or other government entities. Preference will be given to those projects that encourage and facilitate creative and low-cost utilization of information to expand and enhance citizen services and engagement.
  • Best citizen portal: Recognizes the innovative use of an online portal that demonstrates innovation, functionality, attractiveness, efficiency and ease of use. Open to any Virginia government organization, agency or jurisdiction that is citizen-facing.