IBM, others push government to support outsourcing

American readers who will bother to vote later this year might be wondering just what the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) is.

Luckily, its own website is remarkably helpful in pinning down the 1300 leading lights in every sector of the industry which support the Council's aims.

The mission of its Business to Government Committee is to: " enhance and facilitate business development opportunities for NVTC members and Northern Virginia with the United States Government, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and other Northern Virginia Government activities".

Members of the NVTC include IBM, Agilent, Booz Allen Hamilton, Consumer Electronics Association, Georgia Tech Research Institute, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Hrumman, BP International, EDS, Verisign, Time Life, Software AG, Unisys, Cable & Wireless USA Internet, Intelix (no relation), Nextel, Nortel, Qwest, Siemens Info and Comms Networks, George Washington University Virginia Campus, US Ireland Business Summit, US LEC of Virginia, Verizon, Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology, Ebay, and Legislative Demographics Services Inc.

IBM? Well, it's now committed to outsourcing a pile of jobs in the next 18 months ago out of the USA. Like many other large technology firms, it has an office in Washington DC.

Oh. And Washington Post.Newsweek Interactive is also a member of the NVTC. µ

* THE New York Times wonders if electronic voting technology can be hacked, here.

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