Arora to Brief Congress
Ashish Arora and William L. Scherlis have been invited to brief Congress on the Economic and Security Implications of the Globalization of the IT Industry on June 11, 2003 at "Breakfast Bytes," A Series of Briefings on Information Technology Issues.
Arora, Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Heinz School and Director of Carnegie Mellon University's Software Industry Center, will provide an overview of the globalization in the IT industry.
William L. Scherlis, principal research scientist in the School of Computer Science and an affiliated faculty member the Software Center, will discuss the security implications of globalization.
According to Bill Bates, Vice President, Council on Competitiveness: "For a variety of reasons, countries such as India, China, Ireland, and Russia, to name a few, are quickly becoming hotbeds of activity for the United States information technology industry. Companies such as GE, Microsoft, Oracle, Texas Instruments, Motorola and many others are relying on foreign facilities and labor to meet their IT needs from database management to software coding to microprocessor research. Consider that in a recent Business Week article it was estimated that 3.3 million white-collar jobs and $136 billion in wages will shift from the U.S. to low cost countries by 2015. By 2008, exported IT work in India will generate $57 billion in revenues, employ 4 million people and account for 7% of GDP."
Breakfast Bytes briefings are sponsored by the Council on Competitiveness and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, in cooperation with Congressman Lloyd Doggett and Congresswoman Judy Biggert, co-chairs of the House IT Roundtable.