Wednesday, October 01, 2008
Digital Globalization helps economy of Cambodia
An article written by Simon Montlake from the International Herald Tribune; http://www.iht.com/articles/2003/01/27/btasia_ed3_.php?page=2 states:
One of the poorest nations in Asia is taking part in the digital globalization. As Indian firms move up and provided more high-tech services to its clients, this leaves room for other companies in any part of the world to have access to provide low-end data entry work.
A company in Cambodia called Digital Data Divide is doing just that by employing disadvantaged people and helping them through school. The workers at this nonprofit company have an opportunity to be part of a global tech economy.
“Digital Data Divide can undercut India by 10 percent on a per-page basis for data entry and still pay more than the average Cambodian wage. Workers get $70 a month for a 36-hour week, while garment factories pay $45 a month and demand longer hours.”
This is amazing how access to technology can turn around a slow and underpaid economy into competing with bigger and more advanced companies in different parts of the world.
Digital Data Divide is not cutting-edge, nor is its location on a pothole backstreet in Cambodia’s capital but with its competitive prices for low end data entry work, they have been able to increase their work force, but the reality of a scarcity of economic opportunities is constant reminder when they hire women who were rescued from the sex trade.
In the article they speak of a young male who had a childhood accident, leaving him handicap and not able in a labor intense job. With Digital Data Divide not only is he making money but making more than a regular factory worker and is able to attend school. He hopes to open up his own Digital Data company in the future.
Giving opportunities to people who live in third world countries and who might have thought they would have no opportunity to change their lives are experiencing hope and ambitions, something that can and is spreading globally by the means of technology.
One of the poorest nations in Asia is taking part in the digital globalization. As Indian firms move up and provided more high-tech services to its clients, this leaves room for other companies in any part of the world to have access to provide low-end data entry work.
A company in Cambodia called Digital Data Divide is doing just that by employing disadvantaged people and helping them through school. The workers at this nonprofit company have an opportunity to be part of a global tech economy.
“Digital Data Divide can undercut India by 10 percent on a per-page basis for data entry and still pay more than the average Cambodian wage. Workers get $70 a month for a 36-hour week, while garment factories pay $45 a month and demand longer hours.”
This is amazing how access to technology can turn around a slow and underpaid economy into competing with bigger and more advanced companies in different parts of the world.
Digital Data Divide is not cutting-edge, nor is its location on a pothole backstreet in Cambodia’s capital but with its competitive prices for low end data entry work, they have been able to increase their work force, but the reality of a scarcity of economic opportunities is constant reminder when they hire women who were rescued from the sex trade.
In the article they speak of a young male who had a childhood accident, leaving him handicap and not able in a labor intense job. With Digital Data Divide not only is he making money but making more than a regular factory worker and is able to attend school. He hopes to open up his own Digital Data company in the future.
Giving opportunities to people who live in third world countries and who might have thought they would have no opportunity to change their lives are experiencing hope and ambitions, something that can and is spreading globally by the means of technology.
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A good post. Try to indent your quotations.
India is not the only destination for outsourcing these days. The competition for investment is heating up (or was until the recent economic downturn.) The opening of Call centers and data entry jobs in Cambodia surely another sign of a "flattening" world. What is the upside for the global market? For Cambodia? What is the warning for us?
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India is not the only destination for outsourcing these days. The competition for investment is heating up (or was until the recent economic downturn.) The opening of Call centers and data entry jobs in Cambodia surely another sign of a "flattening" world. What is the upside for the global market? For Cambodia? What is the warning for us?
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