Jeff Landy of the Information Technology Association thinks there's simply wider acceptance now that the high-tech industry needs these workers.
"The impact on our industry will be minimal, " says Harris Miller, president of the Information Technology Association of America, whose members include such companies as AOL Time Warner and Microsoft.
Harris Miller, president of the Information Technology Association of America, says the fact that only one American was elected to the board so far may actually be good for ICANN.
Mr. JEFF LANDY (Information Technology Association): There is recognition that the majority of students in our graduate level math, science and engineering programs are actually foreign nationals and we have two choices.
"Our take is that the marketplace ought to be setting the standard, " says Bob Cohen, a spokesman for the Information Technology Association of America, a trade group for computer, telecommunications and high-tech companies.
The center will be able to tap into the resources and expertise of these companies as the date changes time zone to time zone, Gagnon says, adding that the SANS Institute and the Information Technology Association of America will be responsible for keeping in touch with the systems administrators.
He is also a finalist for the last six years in a row in the Marketing Excellence Awards competition of the Information Technology Services Marketing Association (ITSMA), and is a 2010 and 2005 gold award winner in Driving Demand.
John Engler, Dean Garfield and Gary Shapiro, the leaders, respectively, of the Business Roundtable, Information Technology Industry Council and Consumer Electronics Association, said to attract more investment, the United States needs a different legal regime.
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He recently placed a candidate he met 10 years ago at an association meeting into an information-technology-audit position at a large East Coast health-care company.
For example, there are 189 ISO standards for information security, our National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST) has produced a full set of world-class materials on information security, and the Information Systems Audit and Control Association ( ISACA) has developed its best practices, the Control Objectives for Information Technology ( CobiT).
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The Congress must also expand health savings accounts, create Association Health Plans for small businesses, promote health information technology, and confront the epidemic of junk medical lawsuits.
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