COIN was debuted in May 1993 and currently has 10,000 members. Eighty percent of the members reside in Boone, Howard and Callaway Counties. In November 1994 COIN was given an award by the White House Conference on Library and Information Services. Core members of COIN are the City of Columbia, Boone County, Columbia Public Schools, Daniel Boone Regional Library and the University of Missouri. There are over ten additional CINs being organized in the state presently.
Banking automated teller machines are a familiar form of an information kiosk.
The federal government has several initiatives involving the use of kiosks as a way of enhancing access to government benefits and information. These include the U.S. Postal Service prototype and a pilot project for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. A handful of states, among them California, have deployed kiosk networks for providing government services and information. It provides the public with information on government services, displays the details about local attractions and conducts limited transactions such as vehicle registration renewals and job matching services. Gopher access which is text based and menu driven works well with text based software and is compatible with the capability of computers used by many citizens.