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Information Technology Impact Sourcing.

The article discusses various aspects of information technology (IT) impact sourcing, a new approach to outsourcing IT-related work to base-of-pyramid (BoP) suppliers as of December 2013. The author presents several reasons why the IT professional and academic community should support impact sourcin...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 56; no. 12; pp. 22 - 26
Main Author: Heeks, Richard
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Dec2013
Subjects:
Information technology
Industrial procurement
Job creation
Rockefeller Foundation
Suppliers
Computer input-output equipment
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article discusses various aspects of information technology (IT) impact sourcing, a new approach to outsourcing IT-related work to base-of-pyramid (BoP) suppliers as of December 2013. The author presents several reasons why the IT professional and academic community should support impact sourcing. Several approaches to BoP outsourcing are presented including arbitrage outsourcing, mainstream outsourcing and ethical outsourcing. The report "Job Creation Through Building the Field of Impact Sourcing" from the Rockefeller Foundation and how it helped promote impact sourcing are discussed.