Kentucky.gov Moves Up in the Best of the Web Awards

October 5, 2004

It's that time of year when Web site managers for state governments nationwide either get their hopes up or have them dashed. All year long they work to improve their official state government Web site in hopes of doing well in the Best of the Web (BOW) Awards presented by the Center for Digital Government. The BOW celebrates innovations and achievement in state government portals, looking for ways states have improved service delivery, ease of use, and communication to citizens, businesses or educational communities. Kentucky has every reason to be proud of its work as Kentucky.gov is a finalist this year.

The BOW gives a numerical ranking (1-5) to the top five states and categorizes the next five as finalist. Kentucky placed as a finalist this year, their highest ranking in the four years since the BOW started. The top five states were Maine, Indiana, Virginia, Delaware, Arizona, followed by the finalist (in alphabetical order) Alabama, Kentucky, Michigan, Nebraska and Tennessee.

According to Mike Inman, Commissioner of Technology in the Commonwealth Office of Technology, "There are a couple of key rating reports that we use to measure our progress each year and The Best of the Web Awards is one of these. We consider it a very important indicator of our performance for delivering online services to Kentucky citizens and businesses."

Coming soon to Kentucky.gov will be a new and improved look and feel for the site and the ability for visitors to customize their experience--including an enhanced "Newsroom" with the ability to sign up to be delivered news, event and announcements from state government by topic via e-mail.

For more information about the Best of the Web Awards, go to:
http://www.centerdigitalgov.com/

To visit Kentucky's official state Web site go to:
http://kentucky.gov

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