http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2007/01/04/outsourcing-the-outsourcing-profits-for-people-s-new-idea-for-rural-india Comments for "Outsourcing the Outsourcing – Profits for People’s new idea for rural India" en http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2007/01/04/outsourcing-the-outsourcing-profits-for-people-s-new-idea-for-rural-india <p style="padding: 5px; float: right;"><img src="http://www.nextbillion.net/files/images/profits for people.img_assist_custom.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image img_assist_custom" width="170" height="110" /></p>Taking a page from Thomas Friedman’s <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17314-2005Mar31.html">The World is Flat</a>, a group of business students in India are piloting a new idea to share some of the data processing wealth of India’s urban centers with its villagers. The team, <a href="http://profitsforpeople.com/default.aspx">Profits for People</a> (also known as ProGreen), has developed a model whereby small rural and semi-urban cooperatives can do the data-entry and conversion services of large <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_process_outsourcing">Business Process Outsourcing</a> (BPO) companies at a fraction of the cost.<br /><br /><br class="clear" /><p><a href="http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2007/01/04/outsourcing-the-outsourcing-profits-for-people-s-new-idea-for-rural-india">read more</a></p> http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2007/01/04/outsourcing-the-outsourcing-profits-for-people-s-new-idea-for-rural-india#comment Telecommunications and IT Thu, 04 Jan 2007 12:18:36 -0500 Lauren Abendschein 3720 at http://www.nextbillion.net