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INK History

All innovations start with an idea. However, an idea alone is not enough. It takes an entrepreneurial spirit combined with hard work and determination to make that idea a reality.

Take Kansas’ courageous ancestors who pioneered the Great Plains. They knew firsthand about hard work and determination and their pioneering spirit remains alive in the citizens of Kansas, even today. It is this pioneering spirit that guided a group of Kansas legislators and private entrepreneurs, both with the common mission of making Kansas government work for the people, to ask a radical question ...

“How can we bring government to the people of Kansas?” That pioneering spirit turned into reality and Kansas became the “birthplace of eGovernment.” The creation of the Information Network of Kansas, Inc. (INK), made this happen.

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