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U.S. To Train 3,000 Offshore IT Workers
http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/integration/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=226500202
$22 million, federally-backed program aims to help outsourcers in South Asia become more fluent in areas like Java programming—and the English language.
By Paul McDougall
InformationWeek
August 3, 2010 01:59 PM
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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 $22 million program to train workers, including 3,000 specialists in IT and related functions, in South Asia.
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.
David Fox, CEO of Agistix, talks about the company's logistics and supply chain management software as a service. The service gives customers visibility over their global supply chains, with built-in analytics and reporting features.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.
"To help fill workforce gaps in BPO and IT, USAID is teaming up with leading BPO and IT/English language training companies to establish professional IT and English skills development training centers," the U.S. Embassy in Colombo, Sri Lanka, said in a statement posted Friday on its Web site.
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"Courses in Business Process Outsourcing, Enterprise Java, and English Language Skills will be offered at no charge to over 3,000 under- and unemployed students who will then participate in on-the-job training schemes with private firms," the embassy said.
USAID is also partnering with Sri Lankan companies in other industries, including construction and garment manufacturing, to help create 10,000 new jobs in the country, which is still recovering from a 30-year civil war that ended in 2009.
But it's the outsourcing program that's sure to draw the most fire from critics. While Obama acknowledged that occupations such as garment making don't add much value to the U.S. economy, he argued relentlessly during his presidential run that lawmakers needed to do more to keep hi-tech jobs in IT, biological sciences, and green energy in the country.
He also accused the Bush administration of creating tax loopholes that made it easier for U.S. companies to place work offshore in low-cost countries.
As recently as Monday, Obama, speaking at a Democratic fundraiser in Atlanta, boasted about his efforts to reduce offshoring. The President said he's implemented "a plan that’s focused on making our middle class more secure and our country more competitive in the long run -- so that the jobs and industries of the future aren’t all going to China and India, but are being created right here in the United States of America."
Obama in January tapped Shah to head USAID. At the time of his appointment, Shah—whose experience in the development community included senior positions at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—said the organization needed to focus more on helping developing nations build technology-based economies. "We need to develop new capabilities to pursue innovation, science, and technology," said Shaw, during his swearing in ceremony.
Sri Lanka's outsourcing industry is nascent, but growing as it begins to scoop up work from neighboring India.
In addition to homegrown firms, it's attracting investment from Indian outsourcers looking to expand beyond increasingly expensive tech hubs like Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Mumbai. In 2007, consultants at A.T. Kearney listed the country as 29th on their list of the top 50 global outsourcing destinations.
Emerging technology always comes with a learning curve. Here are some real-world lessons about cloud computing from early adopters. Download the latest all-digital issue of InformationWeek for that story and more. (Free registration required.)
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Who the hell voted for this piece of shit?
Please, weigh in you fucking morons.
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As recently as Monday, Obama, speaking at a Democratic fundraiser in Atlanta, boasted about his efforts to reduce offshoring. The President said he's implemented "a plan that’s focused on making our middle class more secure and our country more competitive in the long run -- so that the jobs and industries of the future aren’t all going to China and India, but are being created right here in the United States of America."
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And like little lap dogs, 240, Chad, Blacken, Danny, mons, Benny eat Obama's words right up and will ignore stories like this for the reality of what is occuring.
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Obama in January tapped Shah to head USAID. At the time of his appointment, Shah—whose experience in the development community included senior positions at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—said the organization needed to focus more on helping developing nations build technology-based economies. "We need to develop new capabilities to pursue innovation, science, and technology," said Shaw, during his swearing in ceremony.
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Does Obama ever pick anyone interested in helping this nation?
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Even people at DU see what a complete disgrace Obama is on this.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4490270
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Why not train 3,000 unemployed Americans? What a fucking joke. ::)
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This really is the epitome of obama - say one thing to useful idiots and gullible dupes like Mal, Benny, Blacken, KC, Chad, et al, and do the complete opposite when the camera is off knowing that said useful idiots will never read anything or pay attention beyond the moronic speeches tailor made for the kneepadders.
Utterly pathetic.
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Why not train 3,000 unemployed Americans? What a fucking joke. ::)
to easy to do something like that. :'(
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Bump. Notice Obama left this out of the speech in front of the AFL/CIO?
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This is the obama bamboozel machine doing the okey doke.
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Come on blacken, 240, mons, kc, and danny - please please please defend this crap.
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Come on blacken, 240, mons, kc, and danny - please please please defend this crap.
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And idiots like Blacken, Benny, KC, Danny, and others buy into this crappola.
SUCKERS, USEFUL IDIOTS, AND DUPES.
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Source: AFL-CIO News Blog
by Mike Hall,
President Obama today told the AFL-CIO Executive Council, “We are going to keep fighting for an economy that works for everybody, not just a privileged few.” He also said that with the help of working families and their unions, we are going to rebuild our economy stronger than before, and at the heart of it will be three simple words: made in America.
Speaking on his 49th birthday at the Washington (D.C) Convention Center, the president told the council that this fall’s election is a choice between polices that encourage job creation here in America or encourage jobs to go elsewhere…The choice is whether we want to go forward or we want to go backwards to the same policies that got us into this mess in the first place.
He spoke about the need to invest in clean technology, like solar panels, wind turbines, nuclear plants, clean coal and new car batteries.
Instead of giving tax breaks to corporations that want to ship jobs overseas, we want to give tax breaks to companies that are investing right here in the United States of America.
37 minute video here: http://c-span.org/Watch/Media/2010/08/04/HP/A/36563/Pre...
Read more: http://blog.aflcio.org/2010/08/04/obama-says-made-in-am... /
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There is NO CHANGE. Outsourcing started in earnest with Bush and is now just continuing under NOBAMA. OKENYA is just another puppet.
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He spoke about the need to invest in clean technology, like solar panels, wind turbines, nuclear plants, clean coal and new car batteries.
Instead of giving tax breaks to corporations that want to ship jobs overseas, we want to give tax breaks to companies that are investing right here in the United States of America.
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In light of the above article, how anyone believes a word of this moron and traitor is beyond me.
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In light of the above article, how anyone believes a word of this moron and traitor is beyond me.
Can okenya even be labelled a traitor if he was not born in the US? I can see it now at his trial: "I did not betray that country. I could not because I was not a citizen". "Ok Mr. President, you are free to go"
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BUMP - AND YOU GUYS WONDER I HATE OBAMA?
IN LIGHT OF TODAYS' JOBS MESS, THIS STORY IS EVEN THAT MUCH MORE INFURIATING.
IMPEACH & DEPORT.
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Obama Launches New Program to Help Corporations...abroad
Posted by maryf in General Discussion
Thu Aug 05th 2010, 07:31 PM
Report: Obama Launches New Program to Help Corporations "Take Advantage of Low Labor Costs" Abroad
by: David Sirota
Thu Aug 05, 2010 at 11:15
In recent months, President Obama reversed his campaign promises on trade issues - first by dropping his pledge to renegotiate NAFTA and then by pushing to pass NAFTA-style trade agreements with South Korea, Panama and Colombia. Now, with the unemployment crisis persisting, the key jobs question is once again front a center in American politics. Specifically: How do we create jobs here at home and build our most valuable 21st century industries?
The first and foremost answer is that our government should stop doing stuff like the program described in this stunning new report from Information Week:
U.S. To Train 3,000 Offshore IT Workers
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 $22 million program to train workers, including 3,000 specialists in IT and related functions, in South Asia. 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...
The outsourcing program (is) sure to draw the most fire from critics. While Obama acknowledged that occupations such as garment making don't add much value to the U.S. economy, he argued relentlessly during his presidential run that lawmakers needed to do more to keep hi-tech jobs in IT, biological sciences, and green energy in the country.
Now look, I'm all for a robust foreign aid budget - we don't do nearly enough to help the developing world. However, using foreign aid money to specifically help private corporations "take advantage of low labor costs" in the developing world - that's not "aid," that's rank taxpayer subsidization of for-profit exploitation. Right now, Even if we do not reform our atrocious trade policies that incentivize the ongoing wage-cutting race to the bottom, the least we should be doing is investing every single available dollar we have in job training and job creation here at home. Doing the opposite - actually using public dollars to intensify that wage-cutting race to the bottom - is grotesque.
George W. Bush's administration was rightly criticized by progressives for publicly endorsing job outsourcing, and Obama's administration should be similarly taken to task for now putting taxpayer funds behind the previous administration's endorsement.
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BUMP for Straw, Blacken, 240, Danny, KC, and Mons.
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I just got a call on one my cvredit cards aobut a large purchase we made to verify it from India.
I just unloaded on one of these MOFO's like you can't believe. Speak clear English!
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Aren't the retards on the left attacking Whitman for doing this when their savior, hero and all-around Messiah has done the same thing? Oh, brutal double standards indeed!
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Aren't the retards on the left attacking Whitman for doing this when their savior, hero and all-around Messiah has done the same thing? Oh, brutal double standards indeed!
It doesnt count when Obama does it. When you point out the double standards you are a racist.
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It doesnt count when Obama does it. When you point out the double standards you are a racist.
It's actually 100x worse as she did it with her firm's money. Obama has taken the taxpayer's money to create jobs in foreign countries. :-\
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I agree all these jobs should remain in the US
what is the meaning of your suggestion that "we know why Obama" is doing this.
Was this his decision?
If so, stop being coy and tell us "why" he is doing it since you seem to know
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Obama wants us poorer ad thiks its unfair that te us has what it has.
He hates this nation and is seeking to spread our wealth everywhere else around the world.
Too bad people like yourself don't take him seriously when he makes statements about spreading our wealth around.
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On the surface it goes like this:
You don't try to advance the U.S. standard of living, industry and technology etc, instead the plan is to have the U.S decline with lesser nations benefit from the decline and rise themselves. How? Outsourcing of jobs, technology, capital, tax dollars, industry and industrial know-how. If this line of thinking is to be believed the question is how much does the U.S. decline and how much do other nations rise?
In short, one could say, we will fall to meet them.
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Obama has said that is his goal many times and the deluded hope and changers still refuse to believe it.
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While the president has been urging “insourcing,” the government has been sending money to the Philippines to train foreign workers for jobs in English-speaking call centers.
According to New York Democratic Rep. Tim Bishop and North Carolina Republican Rep. Walter Jones, this is unacceptable and “shocking.”
The pair are calling on the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to immediately suspend what is known as the Job Enabling English Proficiency (JEEP) program.
According to Jones’ office, in 2010, after the two men compelled USAID to end a similar training program in Sri Lanka, the agency assured the congressmen that they would “conduct a review to ensure the project will not take any jobs away from Americans.”
In a letter to the USAID administrator, Rajiv Shah, Bishop and Jones expressed their displeasure at learning of the effort they thought the agency had explicitly promised against.
“I believe it was reasonable to conclude from that statement that your agency’s outsourcing training program was terminated, particularly in light of President Obama’s ‘insourcing’ initiative announced earlier this year,” the pair wrote. “Therefore, I was shocked to learn that USAID has used taxpayer dollars to invest in outsourcing training programs in the Philippines at the expense of American workers.”.
According to Bishop, more than 4.5 million Americans currently work in call centers, but since 2007 more than 500,000 call center jobs have been outsourced to foreign countries.
Business Week broke the story about the JEEP program this week. According to Business Week, the program is part of the Growth and Equity in Mindanao (GEM) initiative, which costs $100 million annually.
“The JEEP program was developed to promote peace and stability in Mindanao by teaching English to youth in conflict-prone areas to help them pursue gainful employment in tourism, nursing and other locally-based industries and to break the cycle of violence which had gripped that region of the Philippines,” a USAID spokesperson told Business Week, adding that it is set to expire at the end of the year.
The congressmen want it gone yesterday.
“Using Americans’ hard-earned taxpayer dollars to fund the training of foreign nationals to take our jobs is absolutely crazy and totally unacceptable,” Jones said in a statement. “Uncle Sam is over $15 trillion in debt and unemployment is still elevated because of policies like this, and it’s got to stop.”
The pair pledged in their letter to “use every legislative option available to permanently prohibit USAID from engaging in such practices in the future.”
“I support the international development mission of USAID but my top priority is protecting American jobs and American taxpayers,” Bishop concluded. “I anticipate working closely with USAID in a bipartisan manner to ensure that none of its programs overseas will hurt workers here at home.”
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huh?
no blacken or 240 in this thread, interesting....