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OCTO Award Recognitions
We are proud to share our accomplishments:
2025
LocalSmart Awards, Local IT Innovation of the Year Award
, by StateScoop: DC 311 Migration Project
2025
LocalSmart Awards Golden Gov: City Executive of the Year
, by StateScoop: Stephen N. Miller
2025
RealLIST Innovator 2025 Award Winner
, by Tecnical.ly: Stephen N. Miller
2025
High Impact Community Solutions Award
, by
Geospatial Gov Summit
2025
Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Award
, by
Esri
User Conference
2025
AI 50 Awards
, by Center for Public Sector AI: Washington, DC
2025
22nd Annual Cafritz Awards Team Award Winner
, by The Calvin Cafritz Awards: Low Titer O Whole Blood Program Team
2024
50 Awards-Golden Gov: City Executive of the Year
, by StateScoop: Henry Lofton
2024
50 Awards-State IT Innovation of the Year
, by StateScoop: DC Business Portal
2022
Top 25 Doers, Dreamers & Drivers
, by Government Technology: Lindsey Parker
2022
Golden Gov: City Executive of the Year
, by StateScoop: Lindsey Parker
2022
LocalSmart Awards
, by StateScoop: Suneel Cherukuri
2022
RealLIST Engineers
(recognition), by Technical.ly: Suneel Cherukuri
2022
LocalSmart Award
, by StateScoop: Tech Enablement Team
2021
CDO Awards
, by Informatica: Barney Krucoff
2019
State Up & Comer Award
, by StateScoop: Nina Liggett
2019
Tech Titan
, by Washingtonian: Lindsey Parker
2019
State Cybersecurity Leader of the Year Award
, by StateScoop: Suneel Cherukuri
2019
Enterprise GIS Award
, by ESRI: GIS Team
2019
18th Annual Cafritz Foundation Award (Finalist)
, by Cafritz Foundation: Eva Reid
2018
DCFemTech Award for Data
, by DC FemTech: Eva Reid
2018
Tech Titan Award
, by Washingtonian: Barney Krucoff
2017
50 on Fire Award
, by DC Inno: Archana Vemulapalli
2017
C-Suite Award
, by The Washington Business Journal: Archana Vemulapalli
2017
Tech Titan Award
, by Washingtonian: Archana Vemulapalli
2017
Golden Executive of the Year Award
, by StateScoop: Archana Vemulapalli
2017
DC Top 50 Women in Tech Award
, by StateScoop: Archana Vemulapalli
2017
16th Annual Cafritz Award (Team Innovation Award Category)
, by Cafritz Foundation: Connect DC (Finalist)
2017
Tech Award (Data Scientist Category)
, by DC FemTech: Nicole Donnelly
2016
50 Up and Comer Award
, by StateScoop: Archana Vemulapalli
2016
State Technology Innovator Award
, by NASCIO: Connect.DC Team
2016
Chief of Police Medal of Merit
, by DC Metropolitan Police Department
2014
Best of the Web Winner, City Portal Category
, by Center for Digital Government
2013
Best of the Web Finalist, City Portal Category
, by the Center for Digital Government
2013
Computerworld Laureate Award in Economic Development
for the District of Columbia Community Access Network (DC-CAN) Project, a DC-NET Program
2012
DC.Gov Gets High Marks for Transparency
Sunshine Awards
2012  White House honors District of Columbia Community Access Network (DC-CAN), a DC-NET Program, and other Broadband Grantees as
“Innovators in Infrastructure”
2010
DCPS Website Wins Best-in-Nation Award
, Center for Digital Education and Converge
2010  Top City Government Website from Juggle.com
2010  National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors (NATOA)
“2010 Community Broadband Network of the Year” Recognition
(PDF) for DC-NET, and
video
2009
Digital Cities Survey Top Ten
(250,000 or more population)
2009  Municipal Web Portal Excellence Award, US Municipalities E-Governance Survey
2009  Innovations in American Government Award in Urban Policy: District of Columbia’s Data Feeds: Democratization of Government Data
2008  The Tech Council of Maryland IT Executive of the Year:
Vivek Kundra
2008  National Association of Chief Information Officers Recognition Award in the
IT Project and Portfolio Management Category for the Stock Market Model
2008  National Association of Chief Information Officers Recognition Award in the Digital Government: Government to Business Category for the Certified Business Enterprise Resource Center
2008 - National Association of Chief Information Officers Recognition Award in the Government to Citizen’s category (Finalist) for the
CapStat website
2008 - Government Computer News Outstanding Information Technology Achievement in Government Honorable Mention award for the
Procurement Wiki website
2008
National Association of State Procurement Officers George Cronin Award for Procurement Excellence
for Government of the District of Columbia’s Procurement Wiki
2008   MIT Sloan CIO Symposium IT Innovator Award:
District of Columbia CTO Vivek Kundra
2008
InfoWorld Magazine 2008 Top CTOs:
District of Columbia CTO Vivek Kundra
2008   Public Technology Institute Significant Achievement Award for Washington, DC’s
CapStat:
Building A City That Works Website in the web and e-government services category
2008.
Public Technology Institute Significant Achievement Award
, for the Washington, DC's Public Snow Response Reporting System in the GIS category
2007
National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors Community Broadband Network of the Year
for the National Capital Region Interoperability Program I-Nets Project
2007   NASCIO
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Award
for DC's Unified Communications Center
2007   NASCIO
Government to Business Award
, Honorable Mention, for LSDBE online
2007   NASCIO Digital Government: Government to Business for CBE Resource Center: Promoting the Home Field Advantage)
2007
Digital Government Achievement Award
for the DC Master Address Repository (MAR)
2006   NASCIO
Cross-Boundary Collaboration and Partnerships Award
for Safe Passages Information Systems
2006
NASCIO Enterprise Architecture Award
for District Enterprise Integration Stack
2006   NASCIO Data, Information and Knowledge Management Award, Honorable Mention, for CapStat (formerly DCStat)
2006   Digital Government Achievement
Government-to-Government Award
for CapStat (formerly DCStat)
2006
Digital Education
Achievement Student-Focus Award for DC OneApp
2006
Enterprise Architecture Award
for OCTO’s DC Citywide Enterprise Architecture
2006   Digital Government Achievement
Government-to-Citizen Award
, Honorable Mention, for DC.Gov’s Service Request Center
2006 - PostNewsweek Tech Media /
FOSE Enterprise Award
for the DC Master Address Repository (MAR)
2006
DC Wireless Accelerated Responder Network
(DC WARN) earns International Association of Chief of Police-iXP Excellence in Technology Award
2005
Internet Best In Class
#1 in all industries
2005
Best of Web
#1 City Portal
2005   PostNewsweek Tech Media/FOSE Awarde-gov in DC: Service Request Center and DCStat
2005
Government Computer News
"Promising Practices" data management award for DC Stat
2004   NASCIO
Innovative Use of Technology Award
for DC Guide
2004   DCI Government Customer Support Technical Excellence
2004
ESRI Special Achievements
in GIS
2004
Public Technology Institute
Solutions Award in the Public Safety Category–
DC Emergency Information Center
2000-2004 Public Technology Institute Telecommunications and Information Technology Award–Health Professional Licensing Administration’s License
2004   Best of Web
K-12 Website
Award 2nd Place
2004   International Quality and Productivity Center Internet Best in Class Award 1st Runner-Up (
DC.gov
2003/2004  Finalists in Stockholm Challenge (
DC.gov
and
brc.dc.gov
2003
Best of Web
#1 City Portal
2003   "Gracie" Government Technology Leadership (
brc.dc.gov
2003   Chief Technology Officer earns Government Technology Magazine's Top Manager
2003   Chief Technology Officer named ET3 Technology to Empower Communities Champion
2003   AAMV Public Affairs and Consumer Education (
dmv.dc.gov
and
octo.dc.gov
2002   NASCIO Outstanding Achievement (
brc.dc.gov
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