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Africa Enters Global Market For IT Outsourcing

Posted by michael on from the race-to-the-bottom dept.

nusratt writes "MarketWatch reports that many organizations 'are moving away from India as the place to outsource, because of the labor churn, and Africa supplies the highest rate of return on investments. New York's parking ticket system is managed from Ghana, Nigeria has an entire ministry for ICT, and Mauritius is building its own CyberCity. Gartner predicts that up to 25 percent of IT jobs today will be moved to emerging markets by 2010'."

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  1. Light and Fluffy, but interesting by lofi-rev · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's not super in depth, but over at cio.com they have interactive maps comparing different parts of the world for outsourcing.