Ian Cavanagh and Scott MacIntosh are optimistic New Brunswick can be an information technology leader, despite the province's current position compared to the rest of the country.
 
Technology groups boast their sector can help make any industry more efficient, but New Brunswick ranks last when calculating IT investment per worker at $2,445 in 2007.
 
The province is also third last in information and communication technology (ICT) companies per capital - ahead of Newfoundland and Labrador and Saskatchewan - with only 7.6 firms per 10,000 residents, far behind top ranking Ontario's 31.5.
 
But the recently named co-chairmen of the two-month old New Brunswick IT Council, say this gap represents an opportunity.
 
"The overall objective is growing the size of the pie, the pie being the IT industry in New Brunswick," MacIntosh says. "ICT is nine per cent of the (provincial) GDP right now, I think there's an opportunity to grow that significantly."
 
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