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DIGINOMIC WORLD (digital economics)
Current Internet Population
World: 1,802,330,457 (26.6%)
U.S.: 234,372,000 (76.3%)
Source: Internet World Stats
June 2010
 
Diginomics on Campus
49% of U.S. colleges and universities use a “one-card” system.
Diginomics
[digital + economics]
The technological and social development toward an all-digital economy conducted electronically in all financial dealings between buyer and seller; a Cashless Society.
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
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Visit our Diginomics page on this website. Click here.
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NASA's budget is .7 of 1% of the Federal Budget. Divided equally among the US population of 292 million-plus people, it costs just $1.06 per person, per week. That's the same as a double cheeseburger with tax.
NASA's budget will only increase a modest 5% during the next three years, with smaller increases after that. Shifts within existing programs will pay for the new Vision.
The Vision will work on a "Go As You Pay" basis, with a reasonable amount of NASA's budget spent each year on Exploration and Discovery.
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SOURCE: Brochure by Coalition for Space Exploration.
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OPEN TO PROFESSIONALS IN TECHNOLOGY
An Organization for Every Technology
Building a consensus of industry representation --
one technology company at a time!
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As a "Professional Trade Association," NSTA is dedicated to the task of bringing technology companies, organizations and associations together to represent their respective industries in a single environment of cross-over networking and corroboration. Our goal is to host technology conferences in Houston that will make this city a "Global Showcase of Advancing Technology."
Are you part of this industry that is designing and defining our future? Then join NSTA. We can help you build the right relationships that can build your business while, at the same time, allow you to share your expertice so others can benefit as well.
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NSTA - The Technology Association in Houston
"Connecting the High-Tech Industry with the People it Impacts"
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FEEDBACK: If NASA's Manned Space Program is axed, does it matter?
We know that, if the manned space program is lined out in the President's new budget, and the space program is relegated back to robotic missions, that the economic impact upon all of NASA's centers will be worth billions of lost dollars, and hundreds of thousands (millions) of dissolved jobs and businesses, starting in Houston. Does that matter in the long term?
Is there a new NASA on the horizon (if, indeed, it survives at all), or are we now evolving into a totally privatized space program? Is a public space program still viable, or is it time to turn the routine of space over to better-funded private hands?
Read the Comments and Leave a Comment here.
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UPCOMING EVENTS -- MARK YOUR CALENDARS
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Third Annual State-of-the-City Technology Report
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
NORRIS CONFERENCE CENTER
803 Town & Country Ln.
Houston TX 77077024
$75 non-members • $50 members
11:30AM - 1:30PM
(Exhibit: 10AM - 2PM)
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Plans are now underway for NSTA's Third Annual State-of-the-City Technology Report, which has expanded this year into The Annual Greater Houston Technology Report & Business EXPO. For 2010, city leaders from Houston and Katy will be presenting technology and innovation initiatives from their respective municipalities. Click HERE for speakers details and more.
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Panels of industry professionals over lunch.
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NSTA Quarterly Forums
~ Third Wednesday each Quarter ~
August 18, 2010: "The Future of Media"
November 10, 2010: "Diginomic Banking"
January 19, 2011
April 20, 2011
July 20, 2011
October 19, 2011
Click HERE for more information.
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NSTA.TV and EBC Broadcast to co-produce weekly tech news show |
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 Sheila Harrison
Executive Vice President
Chair/Steering Committee
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NSTA is growing and expanding, not only in its reach across the city, but in membership as well. We look for and welcome tech industry leaders, specialists, developers, and decision-makers from every genre within the industry.
NSTA is a technology association focused on its members and their respective specialties, which is why we are committee-driven. I invite you to become a member, then a volunteer on the committee of your choice. I can help guide you in that decision.
Contact me at 713.979.5288, or by email, Sheila@nsta.info. Let me see how I can help.
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NSTA Members -
receive a Welcome Pack that includes a lapel pin and a logo sticker for their vehicle or office window. Do you have yours yet?
Click here!
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NSTA Members have the opportunity to have their events posted on our website. Click HERE.
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As a member of NSTA, you have a news bureau at your side to broadly distribute your company's news. Send us your press releases and news about new products, services and events. We will post your news on our website and through our various network outlets.
[STN] is the moniker for the Space & Technology News Bureau, NSTA's news division. Read more here.
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Chronicle Interview: Global Tech Conference Planned
NSTA founder/president, Wallace Wood, is interviewed by the Houston Chroncile. The interview was published in the Saturday, March 6, 2010, edition in the "Business Section." The printed version featured excerpts from a longer interview that lasted over an hour.
Read article here ....
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Current newsletter
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Fly Your Face in Space
NASA wants to put a picture of you on one of the two remaining space shuttle missions and launch it into orbit. To launch your face into space and become a part of history, just follow these steps ... NASA
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I got a chance to view the website and it really looks great, very informative, captivating and inviting, speaking to the mission in a clear and decisive manner. Great work!
~K.T., Washington DC
Thank you for sharing the history and future of NSTA with me, I wish you all the best as you move forward with your concept & vision. I have no doubt it will be a SUCCESS and the start of a new chapter into the future. The possibilities are limitless.
Like I mentioned earlier, Science and Technology has always fascinated me and I think I have been hit by the NSTA BUG.
~ J.N., Houston
I think I looked at every link on the site. Well done my friends. The site is interesting, informative and exciting. Thanks for keeping it up to date. You are doing a terrific job.
~S.W., Houston
I took a look around your website and watched the video presentation, and I must say I am very impressed with its content.
Naturally, the sections on Aerospace and the Space News pages interested me in particular - plenty of futuristic projects mentioned there! But I am of course interested in all aspects of technology.
Your organisation has great scope and vision and I fully support its various aims. Public education through organisations like yours helps spread the word that technological innovation and space exploration aren't simply experiments carried out by boffins to satisfy their curiosity, but they provide real benefits for the human race. Incidentally, I live in the UK.
~M. P. - London
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