The Best of New York Awards program was established to recognize New York state and local government and education organizations for their dedication, hard work and contributions in information technology. All government and education officials, executives and staff in New York are invited to submit nominations. An Evaluation Committee will review submissions in the following categories and select recipients. All projects nominated must be in production and fully operational by
the extended submission deadline July 22, 2010.
Visionary Awards
The Visionary Award will be presented to an organization that best exemplifies a government made more accessible, more efficient, more open and more accountable through the use of technology. Competitive submissions should point to demonstrable differences that the changes have made in the lives of the people and businesses served by the agency or agencies. Competitive submissions should also demonstrate how the innovation can be replicated in other public agencies faced with similar challenges. The vision has been realized through sustained leadership and commitment at all levels of the organization. Nominees may include education, city, county and state government organizations.
Excellence in Leadership Awards
The Excellence in Leadership Award is available to leaders either within or outside of a technology organization. The individual will have demonstrated vision, leadership and support of technology projects that have allowed the organization to successfully achieve its business objectives through the innovative and common sense use of contemporary tools and approaches. Other considerations are overall success of projects or initiatives that demonstrably changed the citizen or business experience with government, supported the business and policy objectives of the agency/agencies, and realized meaningful collaboration with other jurisdictions, departments or agencies.
Project Excellence Awards
The Project Excellence awards will be presented to individuals or teams that have deployed new applications or improved existing systems that assist the department/agency in handling its work or delivering services more efficiently to constituents.
Consideration will be given to projects that:
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demonstrate collaboration across jurisdictions or agencies/departments;
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demonstrate measurable support of an organization’s strategic goals;
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demonstrate proven successes in recruitment, retention, knowledge transfer, succession planning or staff development applications;
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demonstrate exceptional results or innovation in support of sustainability initiatives in New York government;
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demonstrate sustainable value over two-three years; or
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used technology in an innovative and common sense way (that would win an approving nod from both your grand-kids and your grandmother).
Competitive submissions should be able to point to demonstrable differences that the changes have made in the lives of the people and businesses served by the agency or agencies. Competitive submissions should also indicate how the innovation can be replicated in other public agencies faced with similar challenges.
Nominees should note supporting evidence of results, such as meeting or exceeding established performance measures, cost savings and improvements to the quality, quantity and timeliness of service delivery.
Excellence in IT Operations, Support and Service Awards
THIS CATEGORY IS NON-COMPETITIVE. The person who is selected by their agency will receive the award at the awards ceremony on September 22, 2010.
Each state agency/local government/education organization is invited to select one Information Technology staff person who has demonstrated dedication to operational excellence in daily (and often unseen) provision of IT support or operational services to their organization. Agencies should select the person who has demonstrated that they have gone above and beyond what is normally expected and demonstrated accomplishments and results in providing outstanding service to internal and/or external customers. Each agency is limited to one selectee and the winner should be able to attend the ceremony on September 22, 2010.