Link2Gov, a Nashville-based e-government company, designed the web portal in partnership with Microsoft Corp. The new web portal provides a significant upgrade in Internet access to Metro services.
"Nashville has created a portal that sets a new benchmark for delivering citizen services," said Pete Hayes, Vice President, Microsoft Government. "It's cheaper, better and faster, and is a model many cities could look to as they move toward more efficient e-government."
Richard McKinney, director the Metro Information Services Department, said the new web portal will allow citizens to access a variety of government services 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
"We are excited because this portal gives us one place where Nashvillians can apply for a job, or ask for chipper service, or look at property zoning on a map," McKinney said. "Soon we expect to add services for motor vehicle registration, payments for government services and accessing court records. We are continuing to work to make Metro more accessible and we will continue to move information from the Nashville.org site to the new portal."
The Nashville.gov site now has nearly 5,500 pages on the web with almost 72,000 links.
