Colorado Secretary of State’s office wins IACA merit award

DENVER, May 18, 2015 – The International Association of Commercial Administrators (IACA) named the Colorado Secretary of State’s office as a 2015 Merit Award winner for the Go Code Colorado civic app challenge. The award was presented Monday at the 38^th annual IACA conference in Savannah, Georgia. The award recognizes jurisdictions who have successfully implemented innovative changes within their offices. The award also provides the opportunity for others to learn from the best practices and innovative solutions being implemented by commercial administrators around the world.

“The Secretary of State’s office prides itself on offering truly innovative solutions to Colorado’s business community,” Secretary of State Wayne Williams said. “This award is further testament to the success of the Go Code Colorado challenge in providing a new service that strengthens Colorado as a great place to do business.”

Go Code Colorado is an initiative of the Colorado Secretary of State’s office, which works to make state-managed, public data more accessible on the Colorado Information Marketplace portal (data.colorado.gov). Go Code Colorado is a leader in the open data movement, staging a civic app challenge that engages entrepreneurs and developers to build data-fueled apps that help businesses make better decisions.

The IACA Merit Award is the latest recognition for Go Code Colorado. Last November, the Colorado Technology Association gave Go Code Colorado its Technology Project of the Year Award. Earlier this year, Go Code Colorado was recognized as a Bright Idea by Harvard’s Kennedy School through its Innovations in American Government Awards competition. Go Code Colorado is also a finalist for this year’s IDEAS award, presents by the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS).

The International Association of Commercial Administrators (IACA) is a professional association for government administrators of business organizations and secured transaction record systems at the state, provincial, territorial, and national level in any jurisdiction which has or anticipates development of such systems.

For more information about IACA and the IACA Merit Awards, please visit www.IACA.org.

For more information about Go Code Colorado, visit gocode.colorado.gov.