ESRI Receives National Governors Award for Public/Private Partnership

The National Governors Assocation’s Public-Private Partnership Awards were established last year to recognize “companies for noteworthy partnerships with governors and states, and to honor companies that have partnered with a governor’s office to implement a program or project that positively affects a state’s citizens.”

Maryland Governor O’Malley, who gave the keynote at last week’s ESRI Federal User Conference and spoke at the ESRI Executive Summit last summer, nomiated ESRI for its work on BayStat, a multi-agency performance effort to measure progress on improving the health of the Chesapeake Bay.

Microsoft received an award, too, for its work promoting technology in education in Washington state.

- Government Technology