Socially Responsible Outsourcing from the Ground Up

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By: The Outsourcing World Summit

In this session, Jeremy Hockenstein, CEO, Digital Divide Data, explores corporate social investment through outsourcing from a grassroots perspective. By reinterpreting outsourcing, Hockenstein envisions and is creating an outsourcing paradigm in which we can optimize social impact while enhancing existing outsourcing operations. It's a mutually advantageous model where outsourcing has motored the economic development of countries like India and the Philippines, positioning them to reap the benefits of globalization. The power of this impact, though, is merely a shade of what it could be. In each of its industry hubs, outsourcing not only creates jobs and revenue but also spawns local industries around the outsourced work, both to support those jobs and also as the product of sudden leagues of experienced professionals. For the full article, as presented at The 2009 Outsourcing World Summit, please click the download button.