OffShoring

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Offshoring is when work is exported to cheaper countries with sufficiently educated work-forces. OutSourcing is subcontracting work to other (more specialist) companies.

But people often use these terms interchangeably.

OffShoringWhyIsItInteresting?
For de-industrializing countries coping
- OffShoringTheNextBigThing
- I have some thoughts on WhatCivilizedGovernmentsShouldDoAboutOffShoring
- OffshoringDebateWithGraham about off-shoring and skill-levels (See also BlairiteEducationPolicy)
- Software centric : FreeSoftwareAndOffShoring
- Nov 2003, rant on Tribe via Blog : http://blahsploitation.blogspot.com/2003/11/another-rant.html

See also : WiredSweatshops

OffshoringJournalism
The pitfalls of outsourcing programmers. http://www.forio.com/outsourcing.htm
- GrahamLally commented ( http://describe.blogspot.com/2004_01_01_describe_archive.html#107332425940338071)
  - Whilst I like chocolates, I'm not sure quite what this piece tries to say. I'd say that there's a more over-reaching trade-off that gets touched upon, between quality/innovation, and mass-production. But, as Phil points out, some barriers that exist today with regards to off-shoring may well not exist in the future, as advances in communications and educational/working methodologies make labour location less and less important.
    From this, I'd say that the point the article misses is that off-shoring doesn't necessarily lead to lack of innovation - that's quite possible by simply having a company consisting entirely of under-imaginative and/or under-skilled drones that only know how to pump out code in a particular way. Innovation is much more than simply location and resource management.
DanielDavies : http://d-squareddigest.blogspot.com/20040321d-squareddigestarchive.html#107996085891925308
Offshoring is about education : http://cshipley.typepad.com/chris_shipley_group/2004/03/a_response_to_o.html But remember BlairiteEducationPolicy
Agile OffShoring : http://martinfowler.com/articles/agileOffshore.html

Outsourcing in Canada (OnCanada) :

Prediction of Offshoring to India

http://web.archive.org/web/20050801234100/http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jul2005/tc20050728_4517.htm

Five years from now, a significant portion of the Silicon Valley infrastructure – venture capitalists, lawyers, advertising and marketing agencies, etc. - will have operations in Bangalore, helping local entrepreneurs move into global markets quickly. Many talented software engineers, trained in the leading-edge technologies by larger corporations, will be drawn by this infrastructure to leave their safe havens and build their own business. A vibrant community of software startups will drive the next wave of innovation in the city.