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Fixes looks at solutions to social problems and why they work.Tags:On Friday, I wrote about two social enterprises ― Samasource and Digital Divide Data ― that extend computer-based employment to people with modest educations in developing countries. The strategy of harnessing the Internet to bring low-cost data management jobs to remote and impoverished communities has been called "impact sourcing."

This website helps alot. It states the basic meaning of outsourcing and gives an overview of how outsourcing affects us today in many different ways.

Explains the reason why outsourcing public edu. can be dangerous and very bad.

this article talks about the online college courses. also about how some of the professors are being outsourced.

This Blog of the Nation segment discusses how more people today are traveling to places like India to get surgery, which is much like outsourcing surgery.

This article describes outsourcing in the workplace and specifically India

This article exemplifies the use of outsourcing in government setting. It speaks about Puerto Rico's possible statehood in America.

This article talks about how some companies are shipping people from other countries to America in search for the cheapest labor possible.

This article gives examples of globalization and outsourcing by talking about how Indian workers in call centers take calls from around the world and are required to master British or American accents.

The Democratic Party proposed a bill that would make companies who outsource pay higher taxes. Republican rejected it.

This is a current story of how the new Affordable Care Act's website was made in Canada.

Australian airline operator Virgin Blue Group said that it has selected Verizon Business to remotely manage the airline's core business applications.

In addition to rapid growth over the past several years, the international expansion through V Australia prompted Virgin Blue to seek a reliable outsourcing partner. With the help of its partner, the group was seeking to free up its internal IT resources to focus on its evolving strategic IT needs, rather than day-to-day business operations.

This is a great page about outsourcing. It defines in and shows examples of it.

worked for wild brain, an animation studio that created stuff for the Disney channel.

Over the last 25 years, Scott Hyten has either been a founding employee, founded, co-founded or provided startup capital for some of the world's leading companies and practices, including technology practice Computer Sciences Corporation (NYSE:CSC) (Continuum outsourcing), the world's leading healthcare technology practice at Perot Systems (NYSE:PER); the largest independent animation studio at Wild Brain; and the world's leading managed hosting and internet broadcast compan at ThePlanet.com. Whether through managing 3-D Seismic exploration in the North Sea, Indonesia and Africa for Mobil Oil or building more than 100 computer-generated television shows and music videos for the Walt Disney Company, Hyten has pioneered the use and integration of technology utilizing a worldwide supply chain while producing product for a global market. He is featured in Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tom Friedman's book, "The World is Flat." and has latterly received the Albert Einstein Award for technology, Scott Hyten's Specialties: Technology, Entertainment, Digital Content Distribution and Music

This helps define outsourcing better.

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