Colorado Division of Motor Vehicles Unveils New Mobile App for Updated Online Drivers License Renewa

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Colorado Division of Motor Vehicles Unveils New Mobile App for Updated Online Drivers License Renewals

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Colorado Division of Motor Vehicles today announced the re-launch of its award-winning Online Drivers License Renewal Service. The newly designed application features a 'responsive design' that enables the service to perform on multiple mobile devices.

The updated Online Driver's License Renewal Service incorporates popular features of mobile devices, such as touch screen and swipe functionality.


"We believe the mobile web will become the primary channel for delivering online services for many of our customers in the not too distant future," said Mike Dixon, senior director of the DMV. "This effort is just the beginning of a longer term strategy to enable all our services for mobile use."

The revamped Online Drivers License Renewal (http://www.colorado.gov/vroom) has an attractive new design and offers some of the latest advancements in display and function:

  • Support for multiple device types and screen resolutions; such as Smartphone, tablet, desktop, utilizing a single code base and content repository;

  • Automatically adapts to the user's device screen size and resolution;

  • Enhanced interactivity including touch-enabled browsing and navigation for Smartphone and tablet.

There were 734,115 licensed Colorado drivers that required a renewal in 2012, of those, 275,000 were eligible to renew online. The State of Colorado has an adoption rate of 64 percent for online renewals with over 178,000 citizens electing to renew their Drivers License or State ID online.

The Online Drivers License Renewal service is made possible through a partnership between the Department of Revenue, Division of Motor Vehicles and Colorado.gov, which helps State and local governments put their services online.

About the Division of Motor Vehicles

The Division of Motor Vehicles of the Colorado Department of Revenue oversees more than 5 million vehicle registrations and 3.6 million driver's licenses. The Division processes 1.3 million identity documents per year.

About Colorado.gov

Colorado.gov is the official website of the State of Colorado (http://www.colorado.gov) and is overseen by the Statewide Internet Portal Authority. Colorado.gov helps State and local government entities Web-enable their services and is operated without tax funds through a public-private partnership between the state and Colorado Interactive, LLC. Colorado Interactive builds, operates, maintains, and markets Colorado.gov and is part of eGovernment firm NIC's (NAS: EGOV) family of companies.

About NIC

NIC Inc. (NASDAQ: EGOV) is the nation's leading provider of official government portals, online services, and secure payment processing solutions. The company's innovative eGovernment services help reduce costs and increase efficiencies for government agencies, citizens, and businesses across the country. NIC provides eGovernment solutions for more than 3,500 federal, state, and local agencies in the United States. Additional information is available at http://www.egov.com.



Colorado Department of Revenue
Daria Serna, 303-866-5303
Communications Director

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