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 Company: State of Missouri, Jefferson City, MO
Company Division/Group: Information Technology Division
Company Description: The Information Technology Services Division is the agency responsible for providing technology services and solutions to the 60,000 public servants serving the great state of Missouri.
Nomination Category: MIS & IT Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Best MIS & IT Team
Nomination Title: Government Transparency
- Tell the story about what this nominated team achieved since January 1 2007 (up to 500 words). Focus on specific accomplishments, and relate these accomplishments to past performance or industry norms. Be sure to mention obstacles overcome, innovations or discoveries made, and outcomes:
In 2006, Congress a passed a law requiring a searchable Web site for federal
contracts and grants. Governor Matt Blunt commissioned the Missouri
Accountability Portal (MAP) website as part of his ongoing efforts to
capitalize on emerging technologies to improve state services and provide more
information to Missouri's citizens. Blunt authorized the Missouri site through
an executive order.
Through consolidation and the creation of the Information Technology Services
Division, the MAP website was established within existing state resources. The
team launched a first of its kind website that allows the citizens of Missouri
to easily search a database of state expenditures, tax credits, and employee
salaries, in order to see where their tax dollars are being spent. Missourians
can now easily search the new site to find information that previously required
a sunshine law request to obtain thereby reducing costs and time delays
associated with such types of requests.
The portal is one of the first comprehensive searchable databases of financial
records based on real-time data in the nation. Astonishingly, the website is
able to process millions of records spanning all the fiscal years since 2000
within seconds or even sub-second response time and the data is updated nightly.
``What Missouri has done is the most extensive, and it got there first,' said
Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist.
The project team delivered a highly successful and well executed project in
only two months. The first phase of the MAP project, the expenditure module,
stared on 1 May 2007 and the website was released into production on 30 June
2007. The website became available to the public 11 July 2007.
The Tax Credits portion of the web site was added in October 2007. Tax Credits
can be viewed by tax credit issuances by Customer, Legislative District or Tax
Credit Category.
The Employees branch of the MAP site was added on 2 January 20008. A state
employee salaries branch that includes multiple ways to search the data
including employing agency, position title or employee name and gross pay
amounts by the last pay cycle and year to date.
The team’s efforts are especially notable because during the project, the team
was learning new skills and establishing a new technical environment. The core
MAP team members support the State of Missouri’s Enterprise Resource Planning
(ERP) tool known as SAM II. SAM II is developed in a COBOL Mainframe
environment. The project team also established new technical environments that
can be used by subsequent web projects. The team achieved in two months a
transition of development skills that often takes a year or more to accomplish.
“Missourians deserve openness in state spending,” Blunt said in his press
release. “We must be transparent. These dollars belong to the people of our
state. We can use technology to allow Missourians to better see how their tax
dollars are beings used.”
The MAP project team made the Governor’s vision a reality and put Missouri on
the MAP for Government transparency and accountability.
- List hyperlinks to any online news stories, press releases, or other documents that support the claims made in the section above. IMPORTANT: Begin each link with http://, and enclose each link in square brackets; for example, [http://www.youraddress.com]:
MAP Team Receives Governor's Award:
http://www.training.oa.mo.gov/erp/2007winners.pdf
Governor Receivess Technology Statesman of the Year Award -
http://www.govtech.com/em/224301
Governor’s Original press release http://www.gov.mo.gov/press/MAP071107.htm
Employee Salaries Online Governor’s Press Release http://www.gov.mo.gov/cgi-
bin/coranto/viewnews.cgi?
id=EEAAEFAFVZCpuHmVjD&style=Default+News+Style&tmpl=newsitem
MAP reached the 3 million hit mark on 16 January 2008 and hit the 5 million
mark on 31 March 2008. http://www.gov.mo.gov/cgi-bin/coranto/viewnews.cgi?
id=EkppVEupkVESHSySAD&style=Default+News+Style&tmpl=newsitem
MAP is heralded as being the standard for others to follow.
http://www.digital50.com/news/items/PR/2007/09/10/DC02668/summer-lull-does-not-
stop-missouri-taxpayers-from-mapping-their-taxes
http://www.charlotte.com/409/story/554484.html
Associated Press Story
http://www.govtech.com/gt/126770
National Governor's Association
http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.6c9a8a9ebc6ae07eee28aca9501010a0/?
Other News Stories
http://bransonagent.com/2008/01/gov-blunt-adds-state-employee-salaries.html
http://www.washingtonpolicy.org/GovtRegulations/PNBudgetTransparency.html
http://www.illinoispolicyinstitute.org/articles.php?articleid=73
http://www.govtech.com/articles/154532
http://www.atr.org/content/html/2007/july/071607pr-mo-blunt_trnsp.html
http://www.myfoxkc.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail;jsessionid=A952C86D883B5779534FE
D1119B8EE55?contentId=3750303&version=1&locale=EN-
US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=1.1.1&sflg=1
http://joplin.com/news/2008/jan/17/visits-gov-blunts-accountability-internet-
site-top/
Kansas is working on a similar system. It will cost approximately $40 million
in technology upgrades and will take three years to implement.
http://www.stateline.org/live/printable/story?contentId=209153
- Provide a brief (up to 100 words) biography about the leader(s) of the nominated team:
With over 18 years in the IT industry, Alicia J. Weaver, PMP, is currently
Director of Enterprise Applications and Data Management for the State of
Missouri Information Technology Services Division (ITSD).
Throughout her career, Ms. Weaver has been instrumental in successfully
overseeing and developing applications on many platforms.
She has provided strategic direction, data management, project management and
application development for both private and public entities, including nine
departments within the state of Missouri.
Her consulting approach and strategic development efforts include research on
new technology trends, organizational and business impacts, cost-benefit
analysis, and research on tools and applications.
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