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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

 

Welcome to Bangalore

An overview of India as a rising economic power from ABC News:



Some stops on our virtual tour of Bangalore:

"Jeremy Goes to Bangalore"



Infosys Global Internship Program in Bangalore:




Cisco Globalisation Centre Unveiled in Bangalore:  ["Cisco Chief Globalisation Officer Wim Elfrink answers some questions about the new Globalisation Centre in Bangalore, India."]

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posted by A. Mattson @ 12:51 PM 0 comments permalink

Monday, October 08, 2007

 

More jobs to India


Are all our tech jobs going overseas to poorer and impoverished nations? Yeah, they are. Why? Well Americans are lazy I believe and we don’t feel that we are behind technology wise, but in fact we are. And if we do not get our act together, there may come a time when we may need to move out of this country to get the best and highest paying jobs.

“ACCORDING to a confidential memorandum, I.B.M. is cutting 13,000 jobs in the United States and in Europe and creating 14,000 jobs in India. From 2000 to 2015, an estimated three million American jobs will have been outsourced; one in 10 technology jobs will leave these shores by the end of this year. Stories like these have aroused a primal fear in the Western public: that they might soon need to line up outside the Indian Embassy for work visas and their children will have to learn Hindi” (Suketu Mehta)

If you have ever called up Dell for tech assistance and got someone on the phone who speaks English but with some kind of Indian accent, then you should already know where the jobs are going. And wail these aren’t the big time tech jobs that Americans would want; they are a solid starting point. Technical assistance is always needed for PC’s and Servers and companies like IBM and Dell are outsourcing more and more jobs. They don’t have to pay as much and they get the same service from there employees. India is not a super power like the United States; in fact 40% of India’s population is illiterate and lives below the poverty line.

But in Bangalore, property is selling high and people have jobs and the tech businesses is booming. It is a sharp contrast from one section of India to another.

“Over the last quarter century, as hundreds of corporations have moved in to take advantage of Bangalore's temperate and dust-free climate, cheap housing, and work force educated in information technology (or IT, the popular shorthand here), economic growth has bred a new set of woes. In that time, the city has quadrupled in size, real estate prices have quintupled, and a once gracious metropolis has begun to choke on its own pollution and gridlock” (Richard Rapaport)

Sounds familiar, it sounds like any major US city during the industrial revolution. And this is India’s revolution, it’s not industrial but technical and many US industries and companies are helping by outsourcing jobs there.

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posted by S. Colgan @ 11:28 PM 1 comments permalink
 

The Bangalore Experience


Bangalore seems like a nice place to live and work aside from the poverty at your front door. "It's mayhem once you leave the gates of the neighborhood". People from Indian descent must be pleased that they can accomplish the American dream in their own country. The United States outsources many jobs to India and their people are benefiting tremendously. As I was reading the article, "M.B.A. Students Bypassing Wall Street for a Summer in India", I could not help but think of how Americans feel about Mexican immigrants. I know it's a seperate issue but one of the reasons why people feel so strongly about immigrants from across the border is that they are taking jobs away from American citizens. That sounds like outsourcing except that the workers come here and live among us. Which made me think of a good question... Why India? There are plenty of countries that could use the money. They may not be as populated but none the less needy.

Students are now getting a global perspective of economics and travelling the world to gain experience. However, is this how it's going to become in order for these same students to get jobs? With American business expanding, what is going to happen to Americans and their jobs?

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