ACM's report on offshoring has been released

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

<http://www.acm.org/globalizationreport/>

Globalization and Offshoring of Software  [home]

A Report of the ACM Job Migration Task Force

William Aspray, Frank Mayadas, Moshe Y. Vardi, Editors
Executive Summary and Findings  view as pdfpdf (59 KB)


Why this Study?
This study reports on the findings of a Task Force established by The
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) to look at the issues
surrounding the migration of jobs worldwide within the computing and
information technology field and industry. ACM initiated this study to
provide a deeper understanding of the trends in, and the forces behind,
the globalization and offshoring of software. Because ACM is an
international educational and scientific computing society, the study
approached the issue of offshoring of software from an international as
opposed to a United States-centric perspective. Moreover, the task force
that conducted the study comprised not only computer scientists (ACM's
traditional constituency) but also labor economists and social
scientists from around the world. We believe that this approach, and
this perspective, are unique. Most reports on globalization and
offshoring are produced either by governments or national organizations,
and thus provide an inherently national perspective, or by consulting
firms in pursuit of their own or their clients' business interests.

The primary purpose of the study is to provide ACM's 83,000 members, the
computing field, the IT profession, and the public an objective
perspective on current and future trends in the globalization of the
software industry so that ACM members can better prepare themselves for
a successful future in the system, software, and services portion of the
global information technology field. We also believe this extensive
study will be of value to those shaping the policies, priorities, and
investments any country must make if it desires to remain or become a
part of the global software-systems-services industry.

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