If you would like to be considered for CSDC's 2008 Innovation Award, Click here for the award application form (pdf).

Congratulations to Windsor and Bellevue for Winning in 2007

City of Windsor The City of Windsor ON, received the award in the technology category. Windsor featured their automated XML-based web interface with 311, as well as cashiering for AMANDA & non-AMANDA payments. 311 Operators now have real-time AMANDA access, which has eliminated paper and lost in limbo complaints.

City of Bellevue The City of Bellevue WA, received the award in the business category for their multi-department AMANDA implementation. Customers now benefit due to the efficiency gains from this implementation, which has given them real-time access to data and field inspectors benefit by being able to close inspections in the field.

Previous Award Winners

2006

Sarasota County Florida Sarasota County Florida won the 2006 Innovation Award in the business category for implementing AMANDA across 16 departments in less than 18 months. In total, AMANDA handles 77 types of transactions enterprise-wide, making it a very effective tool within their large organization.

Wisconsin (DATCP) Wisconsin’s Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection – Division of Animal Health (DAH) received the Innovation Award in the technical category for using AMANDA to protect dairy cows against Johne’s Disease, an infectious bacterial infection of the intestinal tract of dairy cattle, beef cattle and goats.

2005
The 2005 Innovation Award went to the City of St. Paul MN for their Project Portfolio initiative. Project Portfolio provides managers with access to IT project details (priority, status, notes, resources committed to the project, etc.) that are tracked in AMANDA.

Read the press release on St. Paul's award (PDF).

2004
The State of Wisconsin received the 2004 Innovation Award in both the technical and business categories for fostering cross-divisional data sharing among 600 DATCP employees. They focused on the vision of a single contact record and a standard license renewal form and then communicated this vision to all departments.

Read the press release on DATCP's award (PDF).

2003
Service Nova Scotia & Municipal Relations received the CSDC Innovation Award for launching the Nova Scotia Business Registry an online service which serves the registration and licensing needs of 60,000 Nova Scotia businesses. As a result, businesses have an easy, fast, and more convenient way to register themselves, obtain business licenses and update their information.

Read the press release on Nova Scotia's award (PDF).


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