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Colorado S&T Commission Created

December 17, 1999

Colorado Governor Bill Owen has appointed 55 technology executives and public officials to serve on the Governor’s Commission on Science and Technology. The Commission’s purpose is to issue a set of recommendations by late-2000 focused on enhancing Colorado's business climate and creating the technological infrastructure necessary to foster statewide growth of the high technology industry.

Specifically, the group is tasked to:

  • review Colorado's current tax, regulatory, and Internet policies and offer the Governor a set of recommendations to pursue as a basis for developing state-level governmental policies.
  • assess Colorado's ability to benefit from national and global growth opportunities presented by the explosion in information technology, and to make recommendations designed to leverage public investment by creating more opportunities and incentives to foster the location and growth of high technology businesses throughout the state
  • address the shortage of a qualified high technology workforce and to make recommendations on what industry, educators, and government can do to nurture interest in high technology careers, and to develop a highly educated technology workforce in Colorado.

Marc Holtzman, the Governor’s Secretary of Technology, and Lewis Wilks, President of Qwest Communications, Inc., co-chair the Commission. Staff support for the Commission will be provided by the Governor’s Office of Innovation and Technology, which is also leading the state’s electronic government re-engineering project, New Century Colorado.

For more information, visit: http://www.state.co.us/govoit/index.htm

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