US executives offer Philippines outsourcing advice

09.05.2006
While it has become a top destination for offshore call center work, the Philippines is still nowhere near India and China when it comes to software development, according to two U.S. executives who made separate presentations in an industry event Monday.

"The Philippines doesn't even come to mind," said Stephanie Childs, vice president of the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA), in her presentation during the opening day of Software Innovations Philippines 2006.

Childs represents ITAA (www.itaa.org), which has more than 300 corporate members in the U.S. and promotes policies that concern the IT industry like information security and workforce migration.