Council Joint Venture Initiative
The NMTC USA Alliance is built on capability and trust. Our network represents the largest Strategic Alliance among Minority Technology companies. This partnership will be the nucleus for our Council Joint Venture initiative. The partner website nmtcusa.com was launched March 1st, 2010. Further site enhancements include an enterprise management system, and back-end connectivity with major buyers.
The National Minority Technology Council has spent over a decade studying the alliance feasibility, objectives and rational, focusing on the major issues and challenges and development of resources strategies for production, technology, and people. As announced in the Chairman’s message the Council has entered the “Dawn of a New Era”. This decade long initiative may transform minority procurement in the US and abroad.
We are currently analyzing potential partner strengths and weaknesses to better create strategies for accommodating all partners' management styles, preparing appropriate partner selection criteria, understanding a partner's motives for joining the alliance, and addressing resource capacity gaps that may exist for each partner.
We are very thankful for and deeply appreciate the many contributors to this website.
Our members and partners spend countless hours working to build successful companies.
We appreciate time spent sharing ideas and best practices with us and providing your thoughts and
feelings with our members at large.
Karl Cureton, NMTC Chair
Our beginnings: In 1999 Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore announced that he "is working with the private sector to create the nation's first Minority Technology Council.
The Council will coordinate efforts with minority-owned technology business and existing regional technology councils across the state." Press Release.
This was the first government announcement of the Council. Shortly after our Council Founder and Chair, Karl Cureton, was invited to speak as a panel guest for the National
Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) on the Digital Divide.
The Council has worked over the last decade with State, Federal Officials, and Corporate Executives to develop parity for minority suppliers in the IT marketplace. The Council has now formed a historic partnership of Minority companies ready to leverage their qualifications and reach.