GIGa Innovation Showcase & Luncheon
January 2012
On January 27 at the Local Government Federal Credit Union's (LGFCU) Quorum Center in Raleigh, the first annual Government Innovation Grant Award (GIGa) Innovation Showcase & Luncheon was held. Dan Heath served as the keynote and spoke on how to bring change to an organization. Mr. Heath is the author of Switch: How to Change when Change Is Hard.
After lunch, the 2011 GIGa applicants presented their submissions to the audience. The ideas ranged from a public safety wireless network to mobile app for citizens to QR codes on building permits. A panel of state CIOs voted on the written submissions to select the top 3 awards; however, the live audience voted for the best presentation and determined a surprise Best In Show Winner.
Congratulations to the 2011 winners:
Quarter 1: Catawba County QR Code Permitting
City of Asheboro Mobile 311 Project
Quarter 2: City of Conover Connect2Conover
Durham County Computers for Kids
Annual Awards: $10,000 Grant to Catawba County QR Code Permitting
$ 2,500 Grant to City of Asheboro Mobile 311 Project
$ 2,500 Grant to Gaston County Police Dept's Offender-Based Investigations
$ 1,000 Best in Show Gaston County Police Dept
Jason Eades and Anthony Daniels Win top prizes
October 2011
Congratulations to GIS winner Anthony "Skip" Daniels of Forsyth County and General Topic winner Jason Eades for Catawba County; both are the fall symposium Demo Slam winners! Our top finalist included Jason Clay (City of Newton) and Chris Callahan (City of Havelock).
We are proud to bring the latest technical innovations from NCLGISA members to public attention. Each session was standing room only to see what our local governments were doing to creatively solve common problems.
Presentations were limited to 5 minutes. We had up to 8 presentations per session. The top 4 finalist each won money for their efforts.
We plan to offer another Demo Slam! at the Wilmington Spring Symposium.
Cities of Danville and Lynchbrug, VA Recognized for Innovation and Efficiency in Local Government
October 2011
The Cities of Danville and Lynchburg, VA were recognized as award winners at Virginia's Technology conference (COVITS) on September 26, 2011. Secretary of Technology Jim Duffey and Chief Information Officer Sam Nixon presented the 2011 Governor’s Technology Awards at a lunchtime ceremony at COVITS. Fourteen winners and 10 honorable mentions were honored in nine categories in 2011.
Inez Harville (IT Director from the City of Danville and CGCIO graduate from the Class of 2010) and the City of Danville won in the category of "Innovation in Local Government".
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Mike Goetz (IT Director from the City of Lynchburg and current class CGCIO student) and the City of Lynchburg won in the category of "IT as an Efficiency Driver".
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City of Charlotte Recognized for Use of GIS with "Virtual Charlotte"
July 2011
As Charlotte prepares to host next year's Democratic National Convention, the city is looking for ways to use its GIS. Most recently Charlotte teamed with Esri to create Virtual Charlotte, a public-facing, Google Maps-style website that makes use of the city's GIS to provide data to both field workers and citizens.
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Jeff Stovall, Top 50 CIO
June 2011
InformationWeek's Government Top 50 CIOs is a power list of top government CIOs. Selected for vision and clout, but also for delivering tangible, measurable results.
Jeff Stovall is leading Charlotte's government into the digital age. That's reflected in the city's high ranking (it placed fourth) among major metro areas in the Center for Digital Government's 2010 Digital Cities survey.
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City of Asheville Wins GMIS Best Practices Award
June 2011
The City of Asheville won the GMIS Best Practices Award for its wireless broadband project. Wanda Burgess, whose division managed the wireless project, built a replacement network for less than $20,000 when a change in state law left the City with the challenge of connecting over 22 city facilities in less than 4 months. The current fiber network would now cost the City $450,000 annually to continue providing the same services to citizens.
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Terry Bledsoe Selected as a Top 25 Doer, Dreamer and Driver
February 2011
Terry Bledsoe, CIO for Catawba County, NC was selected as one of the Top 25 Doers, Dreamers and Drivers in Public Sector Innovation for 2011 by Government Technology.
Government Technology annually honors 25 people who cut through the public sector's infamous barriers to innovation - tight budgets, organizational inertia, politics as usual, etc. - to reshape government operations for the better.
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City of Raleigh Wins Award
February 2011
PTI has recognized the City of Raleigh for its iMAPS project.
The new iMAPS application interface represents the most recent in a long series of cooperative efforts by the City of Raleigh and Wake County GIS organizations. The purpose of the application interface is to provide the citizens of Wake County with a wide variety of geospatial and other land-records-related information in an easy-to-use, intuitive web portal.
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Guilford County is Nationally Recognized
February 2011
Guilford County recently was recognized by the Public Technology Institute (PTI) for its Workforce Management System Implementation project and Parcel Map Accuracy Project (PMAP). Guilford County is the third largest County in the state of North Carolina, has an annual budget of over $600 million and a workforce of approximately 2,600 employees. A monthly payroll process was in place for over 30 years and had not evolved to keep pace with the growing complexity of federal payroll regulations. County staff in the Information Services, Human Resources, and Finance departments, began work on a major project to implement a new payroll and time and attendance system with the goal of transitioning all County employees to automated time reporting, a new payroll system and a biweekly pay frequency by March, 2010.
Also, Guilford County, in an effort to improve and measure the quality of our Parcel Basemap, has designed and begun implementation of the Parcel Map Accuracy Project (PMAP). The PMAP initiative calls for a way to measure parcel map accuracy and track improvement of the mapping from year to year. The first step in this process was to compare our parcel map to the similar parcel maps throughout the State. This step was called the External Parcel Rating System and was designed to review and rate randomly selected parcels for their aesthetic accuracy. The reviewed parcels would be given a pass/fail rating and then those numbers would be used to create an overall accuracy rating.
City of Charlotte Wins Multiple PTI Awards
February 2011
Both the My Charlotte and Virtual Charlotte mobile applications have been won the Public Institute of Technology's Mobile Government Awards for 2011.
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Brandon Jackson Recognized as a Premier 100 IT Leader
February 2011
Brandon Jackson, Information Technology Director for Gaston County, NC was nominated as one of ComputerWorld's Premier 100 IT Leaders for 2010.
Each year, Computerworld's Premier 100 IT Leaders awards program honors the brightest talent in the IT industry. Even through economic turmoil that for many meant budget cuts and staff downsizing, these 100 men and women continued to deliver innovative projects and measurable business value.
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