Egypt unrest threatens status as rising outsourcing star

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Source: Computerworld

What happens if the country you outsource to suddenly goes dark?

Early adopters of Egyptian IT and business process services are finding out today. Egypt's government reportedly blocked all Internet and cell phone service overnight Thursday as anti-government protests continued in the North African nation.

This political unrest and network shutdown come just three months after Egypt's information technology minister announced that the country wanted to boost its annual outsourcing industry revenues from slightly more than $1 billion to $10 billion by 2020, by investing $15 million to bolster local IT businesses and intellectual property protection.

... The European Outsourcing Association named Egypt its 2010 outsourcing destination of the year. "Egypt is a rising destination and well suited to support multinational corporations for their Africa and even Middle East operations," said Atul Vashistha, CEO of offshoring consultacy NeoAdvisory. "We see capabilities in both call centers and IT."

Read more: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9206958/Egypt_unrest_threatens_status_as_rising_outsourcing_star

[upi402]

1. and dick taters are supposed to be stable hosts for corporatism

oopsie!

[Enrique]

2. the Chamber of Commerce won't like this

they'll be on the phone with Obama demanding he send in the Marines.

[Hydra]

3. Ya

On a lot of levels, it was a bad day for the colonizers. I'm not sure if we're going to like what they do in return.