Arkansas also has won two 2008 Excellence Awards from the National Electronic Commerce Coordinating Council, a governmental organization that, according to its Web site, promotes solutions to technological issues impacting the business of government.

Arkansas won for protecting Arkansans’ private information through the Payment Processor Security Initiative and for enhancing citizens’ involvement in government through the Information Network of Arkansas.

“Gov. Mike Beebe’s Information Network of Arkansas encourages citizens to help craft a positive vision for their state. Arkansas.gov offers numerous online services and an e-newsroom with audio/video, podcasts, four different electronic newsletters, listservs and RSS feeds,” the council said on its Web site

Also this year, Arkansas’ state government Web site was named one of the top state Web portals in the nation by the Center for Digital Government, a national research and advisory institute on information technologies and best practices in state and local government.

Arkansas.gov was named a finalist in the center’s 2008 Best of the Web Awards. First through fifth place winners, in descending order, were Virginia, Maine, California, Texas and, in a tie for fifth place, Alabama and Rhode Island.

Finalists were Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Michigan and Nebraska.

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