Alabama's Online Point-of-Sale Hunting and Fishing Licensing System Wins National Award; Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources receives a Pioneer Award from the E-Gov Institute.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers MONTGOMERY, Ala ALA aminolevulinic acid. Ala alanine. ala (a´lah) pl. a´lae [L.] a winglike process. .--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 14, 2004 Alabama's innovative Web-based point-of-sale hunting and fishing licensing system is now an award winner. Last month, the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. was named one of 15 Pioneer Award recipients by the E-Gov Institute's Government Solutions Center. In May 2003, Alabama Alabama, indigenous people of North America Alabama (ăləbăm`ə), indigenous people of North America whose language belongs to the Muskogean branch of the Hokan-Siouan linguistic stock (see Native American languages). replaced its paper-based hunting and fishing licensing process by launching the nation's first Web-based system to allow approved licensing retailers to sell outdoor licenses electronically. Since then, more than 190,000 hunting and fishing licenses have been processed through the service, which is essentially a hardware-neutral interface that is accessible through a basic Internet connection. "We are very pleased with the recognition of our point-of-sale service by the E-Gov Institute," said M. Barnett Lawley, Commissioner of the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. "The program has contributed to significant cost savings in the agency and for our retailer partners. We've been able to realign re·a·lign tr.v. re·a·ligned, re·a·lign·ing, re·a·ligns 1. To put back into proper order or alignment. 2. To make new groupings of or working arrangements between. some of our staff from the tedious paper processing to better serve our constituents." The E-Gov Institute serves as an educational resource to those providing electronic government services. More than 160 electronic government projects were reviewed, and Alabama was one of two states to receive a Pioneer Award. The system was developed at no cost to the state and is the result of a unique public-private partnership Public-private partnership (PPP) describes a government service or private business venture which is funded and operated through a partnership of government and one or more private sector companies. These schemes are sometimes referred to as PPP or P3. between the Alabama Department of Conservation, the Information Services See Information Systems. Division, Wal-Mart Stores, and Alabama Interactive. The user-friendly system has generated more than $200,000 in direct cost savings for the state and eliminated thousands of labor hours for Wal-Mart and other retail licensing agents in the state. "We congratulate our partners in the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources on winning a Pioneer Award," said Winn McInnis, general manager of Alabama Interactive. "They used technology to find a better way to sell outdoor licenses, and Alabama's outdoorspeople and retail licensing agents are the beneficiaries of this great system." For more information about Alabama's eGovernment initiatives, visit www.alabama.gov. To learn more about Alabama's outdoor and wildlife activities, visit www.outdooralabama.com. About Alabama Interactive Alabama Interactive is the official eGovernment solutions provider for the state of Alabama. The company builds and manages interactive government services on behalf of the state and is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of eGovernment firm NIC (1) (Network Interface Card) See network adapter. See also InterNIC. (2) (New Internet Computer) An earlier Linux-based computer from The New Internet Computer Company (NICC), Palo Alto, CA. (Nasdaq:EGOV). About NIC NIC manages more eGovernment services than any provider in the world. The company helps government communicate more effectively with citizens and businesses by putting essential services online. NIC provides eGovernment solutions for 1,500 state and local agencies that serve more than 51 million people in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Additional information is available at www.nicusa.com. |
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