GOP Outsources Fundraising

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 17:41:14 -0500
> From: John Lyon <jelyon () mac com>
> Subject: GOP Outsources Fundraising
> To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
>
>
> Might be of interest to IPers:
>
>      http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11219
>
> THE REPUBLICAN PARTY is using call centres in Gurgaon and Noida in India 
> to  raise funds for itself and for  its chieftain, George W. Bush.
>
>  Young people at the call centres are helping robots to phone  American 
> citizens to enlist their support and money  for the political party, with 
> plans to extend the scheme if they whip up enough donations.
>
>  There's a high degree of automation involved in the process, according 
> to Indian newspaper the Business Standard, which says that HCL Eserve is 
> handling the business for the party.
>
>  India is the biggest democracy in the world, and has stayed that way 
> since it threw off the yoke of the British Raj in 1947, courtesy of the 
> Labour Party.
>
>  The magazine claims that "human intervention" is limited because of an 
> integrated voice recording technology which picks up on clues from people 
> that pick up the phone.
>
>  We do hope and trust here at the INQUIRER that the irony of underpaid 
> people in Harayana helping robots to call possibly  out of work Americans 
> because of a widespread policy of corporate outsourcing is not lost on 
> our readers. µ
> --
> John Lyon

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