Sunday, November 27, 2011

Workers of the World, Employed

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/03/workers-of-the-world-employed/?scp=5&sq=globalization&st=cse

Although globalization has profoundly changed many areas of the world, it has not yet reached some areas of the "informal economy" in developing countries. One method used to help people become involved in the global economy is called impact sourcing, a process that makes it advantageous for companies to outsource business processes to workers in developing countries, and, like micro financing, it can show that people from rural villages or slums are trustworthy and reliable workers. Impact sourcing is cheaper than outsourcing, and unlike outsourcing, it gives impoverished people without a college education or many prospects to better their situation and young people without much prior job experience an opportunity to better lives. In today's digital world, there is always more computer work to be done, called microwork, and people in developing countries can do it well because of the connectivity of the internet.