U.S. To Train 3,000 Offshore IT Workers

[Master Shake]

Despite President Obama's pledge to retain more hi-tech jobs in the U.S., a federal agency run by a hand-picked Obama appointee has launched a $36 million program to train workers, including 3,000 specialists in IT and related functions, in South Asia.

UPDATE: InformationWeek has learned that USAID just launched a similar campaign in Armenia.

Following their training, the tech workers will be placed with outsourcing vendors in the region that provide offshore IT and business services to American companies looking to take advantage of the Asian subcontinent's low labor costs.


Under director Rajiv Shah, the United States Agency for International Development will partner with private outsourcers in Sri Lanka to teach workers there advanced IT skills like Enterprise Java (Java EE) programming, as well as skills in business process outsourcing and call center support. USAID will also help the trainees brush up on their English language proficiency.

USAID is contributing about $10 million to the effort, while its private partners are investing roughly $26 million.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/...ubSection=News

[Jay]

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Despite President Obama's pledge to retain more hi-tech jobs in the U.S., a federal agency run by a hand-picked Obama appointee has launched a $36 million program to train workers, including 3,000 specialists in IT and related functions, in South Asia.

UPDATE: InformationWeek has learned that USAID just launched a similar campaign in Armenia.

Following their training, the tech workers will be placed with outsourcing vendors in the region that provide offshore IT and business services to American companies looking to take advantage of the Asian subcontinent's low labor costs.


Under director Rajiv Shah, the United States Agency for International Development will partner with private outsourcers in Sri Lanka to teach workers there advanced IT skills like Enterprise Java (Java EE) programming, as well as skills in business process outsourcing and call center support. USAID will also help the trainees brush up on their English language proficiency.

USAID is contributing about $10 million to the effort, while its private partners are investing roughly $26 million.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/...ubSection=News

Is there anyone here who is not clear what the agenda is after reading this? Hint, it doesn't involve your welfare if you don't make millions off the labor of others, every year.

[Starving Steve]

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The Obama Administration does not even understand the unemployment problem in America. It has little or nothing to do with green tech--- which is itself, a joke. The unemployment problem has little or nothing to do with techno-babble; i.e, "Java EE programming" or "energy-efficient servers"........... What rubbish!

The unemployment problem has everything to do with DRILLING FOR OIL. People have to be taught to work on drilling-rigs, offshore...... Any shore would do, for example: offshore Sri Lanka or offshore Mississippi or offshore California or offshore UK or offshore Norway.

The unemployment problem has little to do with "learning English". Again, what rubbish!

The unemployment problem in America and Canada has everything to do with BUILDING ATOMIC POWER PLANTS or BUILDING NEW HYDRO-ELECTRIC DAMS. Why aren't these skills, these technology skills of building power plants being taught in the nation's schools?

And why aren't basic skills like carpentry, masonry, welding, pipe-fitting, plumbing, paving, cementing, painting, truck-driving,
truck repair, electric wiring, roofing, auto-repair, engineering, and machining being taught in the schools, starting in kindergarten and then in every grade, K thru 12, and then into college? Why isn't math taught as an application of doing things in the workplace? And why aren't foreign languages taught in the American public schools, in every grade, K-12?

Sad to see that the Obama Administration is lost.

[Slimprofits]

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http://www.nbc.com/outsourced/about/

From writer Robert Borden (The Drew Carey Show) and director Ken Kwapis (The Office) comes a comedy where cultural differences are a novelty.

Mid America Novelties sells products like whoopee cushions, foam fingers, and wallets made of bacon. Yes, this is the stuff upon which the American way of life is built, but try explaining that to someone who lives on the other side of the world.

Well, that's exactly what Todd Dempsy must do when he's sent to run the company's call center in India. Talk about culture shock, and not just for Todd's employees. While Todd has to teach them how to make the up-sell to the Deluxe Twin Beer Helmet, he's going to have to adapt as well. Like in a country where cows are sacred, perhaps you don't order a double cheeseburger.

Wish him luck. Or as they say in India, Saubhagya.