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Recent Awards that Utah has won

•Utah Receives Top PEW Management Report Card Ranking: The Reasons Why
Three states earned the grade of A- in the Pew Center for the States Management Report Card released in the March issue of Governing magazine, but if points were given instead of grades, Utah would be ranked the best managed state in the nation...Read News Article >

• Utah ranked 10th in The Tax Foundation’s 2010 Business Tax Climate Index. The index measures the competitiveness of the 50 states tax systems and ranks them accordingly based on the taxes that matter most to businesses and business investment.

• Utah Ranks No.2 in Pollina Top 10 Pro-Business Study

• Utah Ranks 9th for "Pro Business and 2nd in "Most Livable" Desert News Article

• Forbes Magazine- Best Cities for Jobs: Salt Lake City #1 Article

• Utah ranked #3 by Fraser Institute as the best state for entrepreneurs and startups Article

• Forbes Magazine- Best States for Doing Business: Utah #2

• Inc. Magazine ranked Provo-Orem as #1 city of most Inc. 500 companies per million residents. Provo/Orem has 12.7 entreprenurs per million. Runner up Washington D.C. is at 7.6. Historic hot-spots San Francisco (6.2) and Seattle (4.9) came in at #4 and #6, respectivly.

• CNBC ranked Utah #3 as Best state for Business

• Koffman Foundation State New Economy Index names Utha in top 5 of 9 categories:
#1 Economic Dynasty
#2 in Investor Patents (929 in 2006)
#4 in Fastest Growing Firms
#5 in Venture Capital

• Milken Institute study of Best-Performing Cities ranks metropolitan areas in ability in creating and sustaining jobs. Provo-Orem listed at #8, advancing from #23 in 2005. Salt Lake ranked #18 moving up 69 spots from the 2005 rankings.

• Fast Company Magazine- Salt Lake City 1 of 30 fastest cities in the world recognized as “urban innovators”

• The State of Utah was ranked # 4 nationwide in the 2006 Digital States Survey for its use of digital technologies to better serve citizens and streamline operations

• Utah ranked as the third best state government Web site in the 2006 "Best of the Web" Award, sponsored by the Center for Digital Government

• Utah's one-of-a-kind "On The Spot Renewal" program ranked 1st in the "Government to Citizen" Digital Government Achievement Category of the 2006 "Best of the Web" competition, sponsored by the Center for Digital Government

• Utah ranked as the fifth best state government Web site in the nation in Brown University's 2006 survey of state and federal Web sites

• The Utah.Gov Web site won 1st place in the "Technical Excellence" category of the 2006 Government Customer Support Excellence Awards

• Utah ranked as the best state government Web site in the nation in Brown University's 2005 survey of state and federal Web sites

• Utah's 24/7 Live Help service won 1st place in the "Customer Focus" category of the 2005 Government Customer Support Excellence Awards

• Utah's unique Business.Utah.Gov site ranked 2nd in the "Government to Business" Digital Government Achievement Category of the 2004 "Best of the Web" competition, sponsored by the Center for Digital Government

• Utah ranked as the third best state government Web site in the nation in Brown University's 2004 survey of state and federal Web sites

• Utah's online OneStop Business Registration service won 2nd place at the 2004 National Association of State Chief Information Officers Recognition Awards in the "Government to Business" category

• Utah's Web presence ranked # 8 nationwide in the 2004 Digital States Survey

• Utah ranked as the best state government Web site in the 2003 "Best of the Web" Award, sponsored by the Center for Digital Government

• Utah was Spotlighted as "Best of Breed, State Portal Category" in the Center for Digital Government's 2003 "Best of Breed" report

• Utah.Gov was Spotlighted as an "Essential Public/Private Partnership" in the Center for Digital Government's 2003 "Essential Partnerships" report

• Utah ranked in the Top 10 Overall in Brown University's 2002 survey of state and federal Web sites

• Utah ranked #9 in the Online Services Category in Brown University's 2002 survey of state and federal Web sites

• Utah was a finalist in the 2001 "Best of the Web" Contest, sponsored by the Center for Digital Government

• Utah ranked in the Top 20 overall in Brown University's 2001 survey of state and federal Web sites

• Utah received an Information Technology Grade of "A" from Governing Magazine's "Grading the States 2001" report.

• Utah received the following ranks in 2001 Digital State Survey, sponsored by the Center for Digital Government and Government Technology Magazine:
# 7 Overall
# 1 in the Education category
# 7 in the GIS/Transportation category
# 8 in the Commerce/Business Registration category
# 9 in the Law Enforcement/Courts category

•Utah ranked as the second state government Web site in the 1996 "Best of the Web" Award, sponsored by the Center for Digital Government.

•Federal Reserve Bank has listed Utah as the number 2 in the top twenty performing secondary cities in attracting venture capital