Web site receives upgrade
S.C.'s official portal offers several new features
COLUMBIA -- South Carolina residents and visitors can access everything from copies of their birth certificates to school report cards to an online service to pay traffic tickets and fines.
Online government portal
South Carolina provides extensive e-government services.
--The state's main portal is www.sc.gov. Highlights include driver's license renewals, hunting and fishing licenses, traffic-ticket payments, professional license renewals, campaign finance reporting, state spending transparency, education statistics, business registration, live chat support and answers to frequently asked questions.
--The public can search bills, legislators' biographies and the information lawmakers use to draft bills at www.scstatehouse.gov.
--The Budget and Control Board transparency hub, www.transparency.sc.gov, allows residents to search individual agency budgets and unclaimed property, review historical spending information and find out how much agency workers are paid.
The state's official Web site, www.sc.gov, received a facelift that offers a clean, fresh look and new features, such as enhanced information on local governments and opportunities to stay engaged through social networking sites.
The public also can access a link to a live chat for questions and a state phone directory.
The portal was launched in November 2005, and since then its volume of hits and data accessed has doubled, according to Barbara Teusink, deputy division director for the Division of State Information Technology.
The Web portal adds to other resources online, such as the state Legislature's site, which allows the public to use their ZIP code to find who represents them in Columbia, watch a live broadcast of the House and Senate while the bodies are in session and comb through a Citizens' Interest page.
The Citizens' Interest page contains links to data collected by legislators on hot topics, such as Gov. Mark Sanford's ethics issues, Power Point presentations on prisoners and crime, along with information about proposed budget cuts.
Scott Moore, general manger for South Carolina Interactive, the site manager, said e-government is a part of everyday life.
The portal provides a huge amount of centralized information online that is convenient to the public, Moore said.
The main portal is developed by South Carolina Interactive. It is a subsidiary of NIC Inc., which provides e-government services to more than 3,000 federal, state and local agencies that serve a combined 97 million in America.
Reach Yvonne Wenger at 803-926-7855 or ywenger@postandcourier.com.
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