Are you on the lookout for Outsourcing Services to Latin America? Have you thought about Colombia? Do you have a software development project that you would like to offshore?
To those in the know, Colombia is truly Latin America’s diamond in the rough. Difficult episodes of drug-related violence kept Colombia under the business radar for a couple of decades, yet the country has now conquered its recent past, achieving levels of safety in 2011 comparable to those it had in 1984, before drug violence started. Statistically, the country’s cities are now comparably as safe as Sao Paulo or Buenos Aires, and safer than most cities in mayor Latin American countries such as Mexico or Venezuela.
Many are surprised to learn that Colombia, with 46 million people, is the second largest Spanish speaking country in the world, and the third largest in population within Latin America. It is also distinct in that it boasts seven mayor capital cities of over 1 million residents –contrasting with most countries in the region, who usually concentrate their population in a single urban area. This fact has an important impact in the availability of talent, as well as the number of top level universities and higher education institutions that exist in the country. Colombia, with roughly a third of the population of Mexico, boasts more universities.
From an IT perspective, Colombia has the largest amount of CMMi level 5 companies in the region, and boasts a workforce of more than 72,000 ICT professionals. Labor force availability is ample, with the country graduating 6,000 to 8,000 fresh engineers per year, with more than half having an adequate to excellent command of the English language.
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