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Tale of Two Tech Hubs: Silicon Glen & Chandiga
securitas writes "A pair of stories about two technology hubs in different parts of the world contrast and document their efforts to flourish as regional technological centers: Scotland's Silicon Glen and India's Chandigarh. The BBC explains that Silicon Glen is still struggling to recover from the technology bust with 15,000 jobs lost in the last year alone. 'Scotland's electronics sector contributes one-seventh of its gross domestic product, directly employs 45,000 workers, and accounts for more than half the country's exports,' which are down 50%. Meanwhile, the New York Times reports on northern India and the birth of a technology boom, as a group of government officials, consultants and high technology entrepreneurs is trying to transform the city of Chandigarh from a 'sleepy farm state capital into the "technology hub of northern India."' The city is competing with other Indian cities by offering 'lower labor costs than India's "first tier" technology hubs, places like Bangalore, Hyderabad, Bombay and Gurgaon, outside New Delhi.' As Chandigarh competes with its rivals for call centers and software development parks, some of those cities are experiencing a labor shortage of skilled workers. These aren't the only two places with such reversals of fortune - how does your region fare?"
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I think it's highly pertinent that I am reading this post alongside a banner promising advice on outsourcing tech work overseas. I'm not at all opposed to tastefully sized, relevant advertising in web pages. Capitalism is good. However, I feel that carrying this advertisement is a bold betrayal of the Slashdot readership. Granted, there are certainly Slashdot readers in India and such places, but a poll would undoubtedly show most readers hailing from first-world nations and having an ever harder time being employed in their field. Only carrying advertisement from the RIAA or SCO could be more galling, but this is on the same level of offensiveness - and the stakes here are people's lives, not just their operating systems.
For great justice.
Why do Pakis get so bent out of shape when they are assumed to be Indian?
Good question. As far as I can tell, Pakistan has only been an independent country for about 55 years, hardly enough time to develop an ethnicity.
"We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"
Better double-check the facts to make sure the New York Times isn't lying again.
How long does it take your elephant to get there?
You curry eating fuck.
Pax Britanica.
I'm in New York City...
and there are *LOTS* of jobs
for *former programmers*....
*TAXICAB DRIVER*, of Course
Oh, wait,...
The most common spoken language of NYC Cabbies is IRDU
nevermind
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