Management of Change: Building on 30 Years of Collaboration
2010 Intergovernmental Solutions Awards
Call for Nominations
To download the nomination form click here
The American Council for Technology is now accepting nominations to recognize IT projects that demonstrate collaboration between two or more government agencies, and innovative use of technology to improve citizen service delivery. Projects must be operational and have measurable results to report. Successful nominees will leverage best practices effectively to get results. These awards are presented each year at the ACT Management of Change conference, which will be held this year May 23 – 25th at the Loews Hotel in Philadelphia, PA.
The 2010 theme for the annual Management of Change conference is 30 Years of Collaboration. We have expanded that concept for the ISA competition to incorporate the three priority areas addressed in the President’s Open Government Initiative – transparency, participation, and collaboration.
Nomination Form
Nominations are open and will be accepted until 5:00 p.m. on Friday, February 26th.
You can access the ISA nomination form by clicking here. Please save your nomination and email it to isanominations@actgov.org.
Nomination Criteria
Nominations should address the following criteria in a total of 750 words or less:
1. Operational Eligibility – When did the project become fully operational? Please provide date – must be prior to January 1, 2010. Please do not nominate R&D projects.
2. Executive Summary and Project Description – Provide an overview of the project, including initial goals and strategy, highlights, challenges and measurable results. The project must support your agency’s mission, be original, and demonstrate an innovative approach that can serve as a model for other agencies or departments.
The Project Description must describe how the project went from concept to fully operational status. Identify partners in collaboration; describe how they were selected, the governing process, your innovative use of technology, and funding.
- Describe the organizational, technological, social or other business problem(s) addressed by your project.
- Discuss the challenges and issues that were barriers to success.
- Provide the scope of the project (departmental, inter-agency, intergovernmental, or international) Explain governance and the decision-making process.
- Describe how this project improved government efficiency or solved a mission-critical business problem.
3. Intergovernmental and Collaborative – Describe the use of intergovernmental collaboration, involving people and ideas from other agencies, other levels of government, and/or non-profit, private or academic partners.
- Explain how Information sharing, communication and other collaborative efforts were handled.
- Describe collaborative participation, and how it affected the strategy, technology used, and the operational approach to resolve the problem.
- Describe how barriers to collaboration were overcome.
4. Transforming the Business and Improving the Operations of Government – Discuss how the project leverages technology to create evolutionary or radical changes in the operation of government.
- Describe documented and measurable changes that affect doing business across government and other organizations.
- Describe any features that affect the delivery of services to citizens.
- Discuss procedural, technical, staffing changes that brought about a radical improvement.
- Explain improved operational efficiency, quantitative increases in performance, cost savings, and return on investment.
- Describe any other relevant areas of transformation and improvement.
5. Advancing Open Government – Explain how this project advances the President’s Open Government Initiative, specifically by.
- Making government more transparent.
- Using citizen engagement or feedback to effect improvements.
- Describe extent to which innovative technology improved delivery of services to citizens.
A panel of judges, including senior executives from government and industry, will review all nominations and select a group of finalists by the end of April. All finalists will be invited (but not required) to exhibit at the Intergovernmental Solutions Showcase taking place May 23 – 25th at the 2010 Management of Change Conference in Philadelphia, Pa.
ISA Award winners will be honored during the conference awards dinner on Monday evening, May 24th.
Program teams, industry partners, and peers may nominate a program by completing and submitting the nomination form. Nominations must be submitted via email to isanominations@actgov.org by 5:00 p.m. Friday, February 26th.
Please contact Kristyn Rivellese at the ACT-IAC office for additional information. She can be reached at 703-208-4800 x223 or via email at krivellese@actgov.org.
To download the nomination form click here.