Offshore outsourcing has the potential to create new jobs for Australians, provided the ICT industry can assertively position itself as a destination for offshored work.
That is according to a new report by the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA), which found that offshore outsourcing represents a significant structural challenge for the Australian ICT industry with potentially profound and far-reaching impacts for both individuals and companies alike.
The report, for which the AIIA claims to have canvassed the opinions of senior executives in Australia's leading companies, software and application developers and key ICT policy influencers, found that despite the widely held belief that offshore outsourcing threatened many jobs, there is also potential for new jobs to be created from the phenomenon.
