I am a member of six person group from the City going on a short field trip to the Scott County courthouse to visit with Scott County officials about their information technology system. Scott County is well known in government circles for its IT system. It is widely recognized as being one of the best government IT systems not only in Minnesota, but also in the country.
The Scott County website, for example, is powered by the products of a local Eden Prairie company:
About a year ago, we implemented a new website design and system. It was also designed by a local IT company. At times it has been great. At times not. The web product we went with was right out of the chute without a long history of web presence, i.e. – it still had some bugs in it. We’ve been working out the bugs over the past year, but we are still driven to see how we can improve our presence on the web. How can we make our website more helpful to citizens? What kinds of information are they looking for at our site? These are a couple of questions that we ask ourselves as we think about the future of IT inside the City of Eden Prairie.
Hence, our field trip to Scott County.
