State & Local Government Policy, Business and Technology

State governors association chief lays out 2016 agenda

Statescoop: With technology becoming increasingly essential to state operations, it will likely serve as a major theme in the National Governor’s Association’s “State of the States” address on Thursday, the organization’s new chief executive told StateScoop Radio.

Technology “is actually really exciting from an NGA standpoint,” said Scott Pattison, who started in the role as executive director and CEO of NGA Dec. 1. “You’re starting to see elected officials at the state level see how critical technology is at every area — it might be law enforcement, it might be Medicaid and health care, it might be education — but they’re realizing that technology is an important tool to deal with a lot the problems that states have.”

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