nusratt's Journal: Africa Can Seize Share of IT Outsourcing Market

[story submitted to slashdot editors 2004-07-22 20:25 UTC]"Gartner predicts that up to 25 percent of traditional IT jobs in many developed countries today will be situated in emerging markets by 2010. . . . many companies are moving away from India as the place to outsource, because of the labor churn . . . Mauritius, for example, is building on a concept similar to Dubai Internet City, with its own Mauritius CyberCity . . . New York's parking ticket system is managed from Ghana . . . Nigeria has an entire ministry for ICT . . . Africa supplies the highest rate of return on investments"