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tell you of the importance of banking in the info age, I speak of the our population size coupled with our geographic location. I think the next JA election the people will decide which party is best suited to take them in 21st century. Read on:
Chile views itself as a potential IT outsourcing tiger, and while it has been working hard to convince U.S. companies of its outsourcing expertise, it may have found a surprising supporter -- India's outsourcing giant Tata Consulting Services (TCS.)
"TCS likes Chile because we are in the same time zone as the U.S.," said Constanza Donoso, a representative of the Chilean Economic Development Agency, in a brief interview. "Tata provides financial services to U.S. customers from Chile."
The Latin American country with a population of 16 million is mounting an aggressive campaign to attract more high tech customers. Many U.S. operations have already established business beachheads in the country.
The new drive, said Donoso, comes from the country's new President Michelle Bachelet, who has pledged that Chile will increase its research and development spending by 50 percent. The country is setting aside $200 million this year from mining taxes to invest in high technology; the figure is likely to grow to $350 next year, officials said.
Several U.S.- and Europe-based companies have located service operations in Chile's major cities primarily to serve Latin American customers. These include Delta Air Lines and Air France reservations operations as well as customer service units run by Citigroup, JPMorgan, Unilever and Zurich Financial Services.
Particularly prized are U.S. technology companies, which will carry out sophisticated research and development in Chile. Synopsys, a California-based provider of semiconductor design, has opened its first design center in Latin America in Santiago. It plans to expand the software engineering group to 60 by 2009.
Yahoo has established an Internet Research Lab where the PhDs it has hired develop mathematical algorithms that will facilitate Internet searching. General Electric's International Center of Excellence in Chile has hired many software developers. Software AG, a German company with a large presence in the U.S., develops enterprise software for government and businesses from its XML operation in Chile.
Businesses are increasingly attracted to Chile's high literacy rate (96 percent) and the growing number of Chileans who speak English (7 to 8 percent), Donoso said.
Come my people let's sit and reason: I was trying to show BEN the numbers game in terms of population. Chile has already beaten us in the low skilled arena (Chiquita banana et al) and that is going help a sector of their economy. Where they are vulnerable is the IT field; in terms of language (english )and poulation numbers.IF JA can get 20,000 workers in the field of IT (software devlopment, mathematical research, cutomer support, semiconductor development) we are set, we win hands down. Please note that Chile has to strive for a higher number (half a mil and up). UWI is already strong in the natural sciences, if the natural sciences are infused with the computer sciences, JA can make a serious pitch for research in molecular engineering (a new technology on the horizon that will radically change the way we live). JA has bloodlines and friendsin the US corridors of power, our dollar is small to that of the US (puts us in a good trading position), all we need is to adjust our education system to specifically target these markets. We need not worry of the indusrtial age anymore (where huge equipment was
Chile views itself as a potential IT outsourcing tiger, and while it has been working hard to convince U.S. companies of its outsourcing expertise, it may have found a surprising supporter -- India's outsourcing giant Tata Consulting Services (TCS.)
"TCS likes Chile because we are in the same time zone as the U.S.," said Constanza Donoso, a representative of the Chilean Economic Development Agency, in a brief interview. "Tata provides financial services to U.S. customers from Chile."
The Latin American country with a population of 16 million is mounting an aggressive campaign to attract more high tech customers. Many U.S. operations have already established business beachheads in the country.
The new drive, said Donoso, comes from the country's new President Michelle Bachelet, who has pledged that Chile will increase its research and development spending by 50 percent. The country is setting aside $200 million this year from mining taxes to invest in high technology; the figure is likely to grow to $350 next year, officials said.
Several U.S.- and Europe-based companies have located service operations in Chile's major cities primarily to serve Latin American customers. These include Delta Air Lines and Air France reservations operations as well as customer service units run by Citigroup, JPMorgan, Unilever and Zurich Financial Services.
Particularly prized are U.S. technology companies, which will carry out sophisticated research and development in Chile. Synopsys, a California-based provider of semiconductor design, has opened its first design center in Latin America in Santiago. It plans to expand the software engineering group to 60 by 2009.
Yahoo has established an Internet Research Lab where the PhDs it has hired develop mathematical algorithms that will facilitate Internet searching. General Electric's International Center of Excellence in Chile has hired many software developers. Software AG, a German company with a large presence in the U.S., develops enterprise software for government and businesses from its XML operation in Chile.
Businesses are increasingly attracted to Chile's high literacy rate (96 percent) and the growing number of Chileans who speak English (7 to 8 percent), Donoso said.
Come my people let's sit and reason: I was trying to show BEN the numbers game in terms of population. Chile has already beaten us in the low skilled arena (Chiquita banana et al) and that is going help a sector of their economy. Where they are vulnerable is the IT field; in terms of language (english )and poulation numbers.IF JA can get 20,000 workers in the field of IT (software devlopment, mathematical research, cutomer support, semiconductor development) we are set, we win hands down. Please note that Chile has to strive for a higher number (half a mil and up). UWI is already strong in the natural sciences, if the natural sciences are infused with the computer sciences, JA can make a serious pitch for research in molecular engineering (a new technology on the horizon that will radically change the way we live). JA has bloodlines and friendsin the US corridors of power, our dollar is small to that of the US (puts us in a good trading position), all we need is to adjust our education system to specifically target these markets. We need not worry of the indusrtial age anymore (where huge equipment was
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