Technology Conference in Austin Touts Lubbock on Totes

May 2, 2006

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Tote bags given to delegates at the World Congress on Information Technology in Austin — home to the University of Texas — are touting Lubbock and its hometown university, Texas Tech.

The bags feature the World Congress on Information Technology logo on one side. The other side says: "Lubbock Economic Development Alliance Home of Texas Tech University."

The bags are black and red, Tech colors.

A conference official told several delegates that Lubbock got the plug because it paid for the printing, the Austin American-Statesman reports.

About 2,000 business, government and academic leaders from 80 countries are expected to attend the conference this week in Austin. At the conference, officials hope to focus on some of the issues facing today's increasingly digital world, such as technology's impact on health care and equal access to technology.