Route Fifty: North Dakota’s governor is hoping to reshape his state government’s technology infrastructure by using savings from sweeping budget cuts.
Gov. Doug Burgum, a Republican elected in 2016, served as chairman and CEO of Great Plains Software, a fledgling startup company that was acquired by Microsoft for $1.1 billion in 2007. His gubernatorial platform included a pledge to reinvent government, which in practice includes a goal of cutting the state’s public-sector workforce by 5 percent as part of an overall proposal to cut $125 million from the general fund and an additional $50 million from the state university system.
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