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Information provided by the Office of the Governor Is Kentucky's technology infrastructure ready for the future? In a press conference on May 15, 2002, Governor Paul Patton, Dr. Bill Brundage, the Commissioner of the Office of the New Economy and leaders in the business community announced a new program to help push Kentucky into the networked future. The program, called connectkentucky, is designed to make Kentucky competitive in the New Economy and make certain that network use, network access and network infrastructure are proportioned for stable regional growth.
In the strategic plan, entitled Kentucky Innovation, approved in January by the Kentucky Innovation Commission, connectkentucky, a three-year statewide initiative was recommended by citizens across the Commonwealth.
“If Kentucky’s New Economy initiative is to be successful over the next decade, growing the IT cluster is vital. Currently, there are 1,432 IT businesses, with 34,500 workers, representing $1.4 billion in wages to Kentucky’s economy. Continued expansion of this business cluster will help us all achieve our collective strategic objective of changing per capita income of Kentuckians during the next 20 years to at or near the national average,” according to Dr. Bill Brundage.
Chief Executive Officers from some of America’s Fortune 500 companies participated in today’s launch. The initial steering committee members for the connectkentucky project, co-chaired by Dr. Bill Brundage and Mr. John Hall, include Chuck Whitehead, President, Ashland, Inc.; Dick Lajoie, CFO/CIO, BELCAN; Eddy Roberts, State President, BellSouth; Mark Romito, Director of Government Relations, Cincinnati Bell; and Jim Scott, President, Scotty’s Development. The connectkentucky project will be coordinated by the Center for Information Technology Enterprise, Inc.
“We expect
in the next few weeks to announce the additional steering committee
members from the business community,” according to Dr. Linda Johnson,
President of the Center for Information Technology Enterprise, Inc.
Additional information
about connectkentucky will be made available through the Office for
the New Economy at http://www.ONE-KY.org and the Center for Information
Technology Enterprise, Inc. at www.citeinc.com. |
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