Interesting piece on how the mayhem at the border might affect the tech economy in Mexico.
And although drug-related crime tends to center specifically around towns dotting the U.S.-Mexican border-closer to Nogales, Arizona or El Paso, Texas than the country’s outsourcing hubs in Monterrey, Mexico City and Guadalajara-perception makes the difference when it comes to winning IT services business from foreign corporations.
“ There are many more dangerous locations to attempt an outsourcing operation than Mexico, such as India, South Africa, Israel, Malaysia, Thailand, Colombia and the Philippines,” says Scott Wilson, co-founder of outsourcing research firm Brown & Wilson Group. “There is a double standard in image judgments with emerging outsourcing locations. The widespread violence affecting the border cities of Mexico is not occurring near the outsourcing centers, in contrast to what (violence) occurred directly in Mumbai, Bangalore and Delhi, India.”