information technology

The first annual report from ITFlorida encourages venture capital investments, creating research and development tax exemptions and establishing three new technology-based organizations. The report comes from the Information Service Technology Development Task Force created by state legislation last year to assess the health of Floridas information technology industry.

The Statewide Report on Ohio’s Readiness for Global Electronic Commerce uses 22 key indicators to measure the state’s performance and preparedness for an information economy against a set of national benchmarks established by the Computer Systems Policy Project in 1998. Ecom-Ohio found the overall infrastructure or backbone made the state one of the most connected in the country, yet 90 percent of the dial-up connections were not robust enough to support high bandwidth applications.

The Commerce Departments third annual report on the information technology (IT) revolution and its impact on the economy. The Department found that while IT industries only represent 8.3 percent of the U.S. economy, they accounted for approximately 30 percent of the countrys economic growth since 1995.

The Connecticut Economic Resource Center report calls on the states to streamline business licensing and permitting processes for entrepreneurs and start-up businesses. The report also identifies several impediments to changing the current systems within states, and examples of how Pennsylvania overcame these obstacles.

The report examines how five newly industrializing economies have helped shape the new competitive climate in Asia and throughout the world. The report also analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of the strategies and policies behind Asia’s remarkable transformation into a significant contender in today’s global information technology marketplace.

The report provides an overview of the
mandate, functions and key contacts of U.S. federal and select private sector organizations
that monitor, collect, disseminate, or conduct analysis of information involving foreign science
and technology.

The report presents a strategy for utilizing Illinois’s highly advanced telecommunications and networking infrastructure for connecting Illinois business, education, and other institutions to each other, the nation, and the world.