Africa Enters Global Market For IT Outsourcing

nusratt writes "MarketWatch reports that many organizations 'are moving away from India as the place to outsource, because of the labor churn, and Africa supplies the highest rate of return on investments. New York's parking ticket system is managed from Ghana, Nigeria has an entire ministry for ICT, and Mauritius is building its own CyberCity. Gartner predicts that up to 25 percent of IT jobs today will be moved to emerging markets by 2010'."

Nigeria!

[Megor1]

Oh yes this is the country you want to trust for your outsourcing needs. "Thank you for calling Dell,.... Well sir I think I know how we can fix your computer problem, you see my uncle Prince Zambar the great had $434,000,000 (FOUR HUNDRED AND THIRTY FOUR BILLION DOLLARS) yadda yadda yadda."

Nigeria has an entire ministry for ICT

[wfberg]

And as it so happens the Nigerian ministry of ICT has developed a product for the US Department of Homeland Security. Problem is, that the DHS can only contract out to a US based company or individual. Seeing as this contract is worth 480 MILLION DOLLARS, they will be glad to give you 10% of that, if you were to act as an intermediary.. There are just a feeeew formalities to be handled, like, oh, a Nigerian ICT business license, and this thing called a Remmitance Fee. Honest truth. They e-mailed me about it just yesterday.

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Sure, send money to Nigeria

[Woy]

Yeah, i'm glad money is flowing into Nigeria, as i am about to complete a transaction with a Nigerian prince that will settle my money problems for good. I laugh at thee.

Nigerian ICT

[Anonymous Coward]

Dear Sir:

I represent a technology company employing thousands of programmers whose founder recently suffered an untimely demise. Without his leadership, these programmers remain without work, and soon will drift away to find other jobs with the government. If I could find an overseas company to employ these programmers, we could avoid the government acquiring these workers and save your company millions of dollars in the process. I propose that you keep 90% of the savings, while 10% goes to me as a finders fee.

There is nothing unethical about this transaction.

We must act now to take advantage of this situation. We will need funds to write a proposal for your signature to complete the outsourcing. Please send me the account numbers for your corporate accounts.

Sincerely,
Prince^H^H^H^H^H^HCIO Mgumbi

Re:Its not racism...Nigeria has a problem

[0racle]

But they have proved that they have the telecommunications infrastructure and the ability to forge international business deals worth many billions of dollars.

language gap

[jokach]

Chief among the strengths of the African continent, says Rive, is the fact that English is really strong. "It is a different accent, but it is well understood.

Maybe now we can understand the person on the other side of the phone ........

All is not lost

[loginx]

I'm working on a very efficient business model that I will implement very shortly... it goes as follows:

Good Day Sir,

My name is John Smith, I am a district manager at the New York Bank of Commerce (NYBC) and I am contacing you to obtain your help in an urgent matter.

Several weeks ago, Prince Adhi-Butta Gambei, passed away in a plane accident on the coast of Los Angeles, leaving in our safe a fortune estimated to no less than 2,600,000,000 nairas. Yes, that is 2 Billion, six hundred thousand nairas (approximately USD $20,000,000 or Twenty Million US Dollars).

With your help, I believe I may have an opportuny to move these funds to a separate account before my government can take possession of these funds but I need the help of someone familiar with the nigerian political system and I will provide you with detailed instructions that will help you pretend that you are the legitimate heir of Prince Adhi-Butta Gambei.

Once the funds are transfered in your NYBC account, I will move these funds immediately to an off-short account, leaving in your NYBC 30% of the amount. That is 78,000,000 nairas... YES!! Seventy Eight Million nairas (or USD $600,000).

However, openning an account at NYBC will require a minimum balance of USD $14,000 (1,820,140 nairas).

I was able to place $6,000 of my personal funds in this account, however I require your help in providing the remaining $8,000 (1,040,080 nairas) in order to reach our goal.

Best Regards,

John Smith

Re:ummmmm.... security?

[Anonymous Coward]

This sounds more like 21st century slavery to me. Yet again the white man is finding the black man is a cheap source of labor to be exploited. Instead of importing the slaves we're simply exporting the work for it to be processed there for slave wages and shipped back to our wonderfully ignorant consumers. Free the black man from the white man's corporations, ban all trade with Africa before it is too late and we have to fight another civil war over this.

Re:Come to Brazil!

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, the only downside is, half of 'em still have balls... and you can't always tell which half!

Re:ummmmm.... security?

[geekoid]

"but that doesn't mean I don't like Arabs, Chinese, or Indians...."

well, except the ones with the sharp knives.

And I was modded funny for the prediction of this

[Vitus Wagner]

Just two years ago I wrote [slashdot.org]
about future of African outsource market. It was modded funny...