Ohio ties for first in Center for Digital Government survey |
Issue Date: November 10, 2002 |
Source: IGD, Statewide IT Policy |
| The State of Ohio continues to climb in the Digital State Survey,
a state-by-state survey
of online |
| government services. |
| Ohio tied for first place with nine other states in the "taxation and revenue"category of the 2002 |
Digital State Survey, up from 26th place last year. |
| The reasons cited for the ranking included the Ohio Business Gateway, which allows
small businesses |
to remit taxes and
perform other government transactions in a single location. |
The third portion of the 2002 survey was recently released by
the Center for Digital Government,
|
| a California-based research and advisory group.
This part of the survey also included results from |
the “education” category, in which Ohio ranked 14th with six other states,
up from a tie for 21st place |
last year. |
Overall, Ohio ranked 12th in the three-part survey, down from last year when Ohio tied for ninth |
place. |
The earlier parts of the survey, released in August and June, ranked Ohio third in the “electronic |
commerce and business regulation” category and fourth in the “law enforcement and the courts” |
category. The state placed eighth and fifth, respectively, in the 2001 Digital State Survey. |
Since the inception of the survey in 1997, Ohio's overall ranking has improved an average of 15 |
percent each year. Ohio's average ranking across all survey categories has improved 8 percent |
annually. |
The DAS Computer Services Division’s Office of Statewide IT Policy coordinated Ohio's response to |
the survey. |