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Mississippi Receives National Award for Government ExperienceThe official website of the State of Mississippi, ms.gov, and the innovative services available to Mississippi citizens on the site won fourth place in the Center for Digital Government's second annual Government Experience Awards. These awards recognize the achievements and best practices of states, cities and counties that have gone to the web and beyond to radically improve the experience of government and push the boundaries of how citizen services are delivered. This is the fourth consecutive year Mississippi has placed in the Top 5 of the Center for Digital Government's prestigious government awards. "We are especially gratified that Mississippi has been nationally recognized, once again, for our proven leadership in digital government and our exceptional user experience offerings," said Dr. Craig Orgeron, Executive Director of Mississippi Information Technology Services and State of Mississippi Chief Information Officer. "We are proud of the continued accomplishments ms.gov receives for its enterprise digital government experience that encompasses more than 250 services delivered to citizens through a responsive and chatbot-integrated website and an ever-growing personalized government platform, MyMississippi." Ms.gov offers an easy, convenient way for Mississippians to access more than 250 online services, including driver license renewals, hunting and fishing license purchases, and MISSI, the state's award winning digital government chatbot. In 2017 alone, Mississippi's electronic government technology served more than 500,000 visitors and over 610,000 transactions across all online services. It securely processed more than $70 million in digital government transactions-a 10% digital adoption increase over 2016. Additional notable innovations available on ms.gov include:
More about ms.gov: About Mississippi Interactive Mississippi Interactive (MSI (News - Alert)) is a public-private partnership between the state of Mississippi and the Arkansas Information Consortium (AIC) that helps state government entities Web-enable their information and services. Jackson-based MSI is celebrating its 8th year as the state's official digital government services partner and is part of digital government firm NIC's (News - Alert) (Nasdaq: EGOV) family of companies. MSI operates ms.gov, the official website of the state of Mississippi, which offers more than 250 state and local online services. About NIC NIC Inc. (NASDAQ: EGOV) is the nation's premier provider of innovative digital government solutions and secure payment processing, which help make government interactions more accessible for everyone through technology. The family of NIC companies has developed a library of more than 13,000 digital government services for more than 5,500 federal, state, and local government agencies. Among these solutions is the ground-breaking personal assistant for government, Gov2Go, delivering citizens personalized reminders and a single platform for all government interactions. More information is available at www.egov.com. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180926005544/en/ |