City of Hot Springs Unveils New eGovernment Web Site at www.cityhs.net.LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Conducting business with the City of Hot Springs will now be faster and more convenient, thanks to the newly designed city Web site. The new Hot Springs portal offers citizens a quick and easy means to obtain information about and interact with Hot Springs. The site now features an online job application that transmits data to the city and eliminates the need to send out or process paper forms. The new Web portal See portal. also features a new Hot Springs Memorial Field Airport Memorial Field Airport (IATA: HOT, ICAO: KHOT, FAA LID: HOT), also known as Hot Springs Memorial Field Airport, is a public airport located three miles (5 km) southwest of the central business district of Hot Springs, a city in Garland County, site. "We are so pleased to unveil our new city Web site to the citizens and businesses of Hot Springs," said Kent Myers, Hot Springs City Manager. "We are striving to provide user-friendly methods to transact An earlier e-commerce system for the Web from Open Market that included order capture and secure order fulfillment using credit cards, ecash and other payment systems. It included customer service and subscription administration capabilities as well as an integrated database for reporting business with the city over the Internet, resulting in convenience, fast access to information, and increased productivity for our city staff." Hot Springs is also planning on offering several new eGovernment services in 2006, including online parking ticket payments, district court fines, and parks reservations. Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and electronic check payments for these services will be processed by the Arkansas state portal's secure payment server. The new Hot Springs city Web site was designed and developed through a partnership between the City of Hot Springs and the Information Network of Arkansas, which manages the official state Web portal (www.Arkansas.gov). About Arkansas.gov Arkansas.gov is the official Web site of the state of Arkansas (www.Arkansas.gov) and a service of the Information Network of Arkansas. The Information Network of Arkansas is a collaborative effort between the state of Arkansas and Arkansas Information Consortium that helps Arkansas government entities Web-enable their information services See Information Systems. . Arkansas.gov was built and is marketed, operated, and maintained by Arkansas Information Consortium, a Little Rock-based 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 2,000 state and local agencies that serve more than 60 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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