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BAD: Deloitte Sponsorship
Just days after blasting UHIP consultant Deloitte, Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo spoke at a conference in California sponsored by Deloitte. We paid them a lot of money, we didn’t get what we paid for, Raimondo said at the time of Deloitte s involvement in the UHIP debacle. And they represented to us that it was in much better shape than in fact it was: defective functionality, incomplete interfaces, engines that still aren’t working.
Days later, Raimondo was en route to headline the Deloitte-sanctioned event. Deloitte is not paying for any of the travel, said Raimondo spokesperson David Ortiz. She had already committed to be at the event, and was able to have a private conversation with the CEO of Deloitte Consulting, who committed to being in regular communication with the Governor.
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New York City now recognizes LGBT-owned businesses as minority-owned businesses, which will give LGBT-owned businesses an opportunity to compete for billions of dollars of government contract opportunity. This new designation was announced on Tuesday, January 19, 2021, by New York City’s Department of Small Business Services (SBS) in partnership with the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC). Kelley Drye is a longtime National Legal Partner of the NGLCC, and is proud to stand with the NGLCC as it continues to promote its LGBT initiative in business inclusion throughout the public sector.
Techies At The Top When the governor or mayor comes from the IT business world, it makes
implementing e-government easier at least it should. Sarah Harney | January 2003
November s election provided another state with something many technology officials would give their eyeteeth for: a chief executive with technology acumen and enthusiasm bred in the private sector. Craig Benson, the newly elected governor of New Hampshire, co-founded Cabletron Systems, a computer networking company. He s one in a short line of governors who come from the business sector with technology expertise. Two years ago, Mark Warner, a founding partner of a technology venture capital fund, became governor of Virginia. On the local level, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a former Wall Street executive, developed a specialized computer system that delivers financial news and analysis, before he turned to politics. Can there be any way these guys don t g