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The new governors of Montana, North Dakota, West Virginia, Delaware and can only starting blocks, but they have little time wasted in a confrontation with increasingly urgent Question: How technology can help advance their agendas?

All four presidents of national central banks to emphasize technological initiatives in his first State-of-the-State addresses. Montana’s celebrated the governor himself a day of information technology shortly after he took office.

“Improvements in technology represent a large portion of productivity gains and our economy over the past ten years,” North Dakota “said Governor John Hoeven. “As private industry, we need within government to develop and use technology because it is key to help us develop.”

The governors of the review are countless opportunities, technology can improve service for citizens and promoting economic development - the end of a high-speed broadband network to help recruit High-Tech employees provide a certain number of administrative services electronically.

Although officials are excited by the Confederation of several initiatives to keep in permanent contact with technological changes and progress millions of dollars, they often ask. Also make sure that technology is accessible to all and to data protection and security issues. Furthermore, to realize technology is not a panacea and that even if some initiatives could be quickly implemented should be, in other cases, take some time - a long period.

“I do not think you can use a large boat around [as a government] that quickly,” warned roubles Thom, Director of the State of information technology in the curricula of National Governors Association.

Thereafter, an examination of more initiatives in technology WV, North Dakota, Delaware and Montana.

WV

Robert Wise, West Virginia’s new governor, thinks big when it comes to technology projects for his state - as in the Shoot-for-the-moon high. The governor of the Technical Bureau below expectations West Virginia position as “technology-state” for the new millennium.

“If we WV, we have less than 1 percent of the U.S. population, but much less than 1 percent of the nation-tech,” says Keith ComStock state Chief Technology Officer, aid a technology for consideration of the strong - Tech-l’impact economic industry in West Virginia. “But our goal is to West Virginia, the technology sector, which is Delaware-Banking”.

Although such importance is still a long way away, WV Comstock characterized as an “emerging” in the technological development phase - the wealth of a State to technological initiatives. Among the proposals unusual, in a broad technology Bluetooth Print is creating an “Internet Free Trade offer, that companies in the first line e-commerce to a tax benefit package, including an exemption from payment of taxes the income of SOEs.

A creative action calls for providing an interest-free loan to cover the cost of moving high-tech key employees of public enterprises. The state would be willing to convert to a grant if the company retains these coveted labor for several years.

Another proposal calls increased, Out-of-State technology team with smaller firms in WV State contracts technology in a mentor / protégé relationship. Technology transfer of know-how happen, especially when protege of company starts with a small part, by later expanded.

But another recommendation, high-tech incubators, with significant bandwidth and Prime offices, in small municipalities of WV. If the technical staff - notorious for the move in a relatively short stations - wanted another challenge, they can take jobs with other incubators.

“We have an outdoor lifestyle, including skiing, mountain biking and white water rafting, which is attractive to young High-Tech-workers,” said Comstock, in recognition of the State currently has difficulties , Recruiting and retaining talented employees Tech. “But many of the best and brightest are reluctant to rural areas because they fear there are no other jobs for them and that they have for their career on the ice. ”

Wise, spent 18 years in the west of the Virginia legislature, also proposes more partnerships with businesses and educational institutions of technology to prepare the workforce and creating centres ‘virtual learning, state-of-the-art training in the field of networks, E - Commerce, programming and other areas. Capitalization in an existing program, trains and helps entrepreneurs develop products based on technology and management processes Sage has also proposed to grant scholarships to students from technical training and other places.

In the meantime, ComStock, a veteran, IT managers and entrepreneurs, said the state will continue at a lower cost of technology initiatives, the citizens better service and accountability. An example: West Virginia’s 55 counties allows people to give the attack and other work as teleconferencing, which allows the sending of the courtroom storage and storage of staff time and costs transport. Comstock particularly welcomes future e-government applications. His office will explore possibilities to increase interactivity between the State and other authorities, so that people can input data into a portal dedicated to the automatic transmission due to other portals. It is the hope, secure and private e-government applications, better communication of information and citizenship laws, regulations, directives and services.