Monday, 19 May 2003

Tech

IT Sweatshops

From a 2001 proposal for a National Institute of Information Technology in Pakistan:

"We do not want Pakistan to become a country that the North uses for low-end, sweatshop software development.  The choice is between becoming a credible player in the IT world or merely being an IT slave for the West."

Question: is the IT industry about to undergo the same kind of radical reorganisation that shook up the textile industry in early part of the 20th century?

Posted by pab at 07:19