Jamaica is emerging as a global technology center. Ya mon, Jamaica. The small island nation of 2.7 million people has relatively high levels of access to high-speed Internet connections, and is working to leverage its English-speaking abilities and location amidst the Americas region. There are no timezone problems for companies in North or South America when doing business with and in Jamaica.<\/p>\n
More than a quarter of Jamaica’s people are online, with 4.3% having access to high-speed connections. The latter number may not seem to be a dazzling number, but compare it to 0.8% in Indonesia, 0.9% in India, 1.9% in the Philippines, 4.6% in Thailand, and 6.8% in Brazil. Jamaica’s fast connections are also focused on business. <\/p>\n
My ongoing research crunches statistics into the maw of relative income, which takes into account local cost-of-living and the idea of a \u201cpound-for-pound\u201d economic analysis. By this standard, Jamaica is on the rise. <\/p>\n
Aggregating and integrating factors such as income, income disparity, Internet connections, corruption, the use of English, and infrastructure development on this pound-for-pound scale finds Jamaica exceeding Mexico, Turkey, all of Southeast Asia except the Philippines, and all of the BRICs except China. <\/p>\n
I was excited to see a recent in-depth look at Jamaica published The Sauce, an Australian outsourcing consulting firm. A detailed article written there by David Mullings, a Jamaican investor, states that the country has 13,000 employees in the BPO sector and is planning 10,000 more. <\/p>\n
Looks like it’s time to visit Kingston.<\/p>\n