Since I am crazy about outsourcing of it-related work to developing countries and my parents are from Pakistan, I can´t keep back on referring to the Pakistan Software Export Board. The organization is related to the government and is mandated to promote Pakistans IT-industry.

As seen on their site and according to my information is the it-business Pakistan doing well - It is not so matured and voluminous as in India, but Pakistan has still the benefits of a large number of of it-candidates (India have now lack of it-candidates, so that they outsource further to fx. China) and the salaries are much lower than in India (the living standard and the salaries have increased a lot on the later years in India). On the other hand is outsourcing not anymore a matter of only cost reductions, but must be seen broader from a strategic, innovative, value chain and business oriented point of view. I know several firms in Denmark, that are working with outsourcing to Pakistan off shore, on shore, near shore, right shore, smart sourcing, partnerships, DCT Development Center teams etc. :- )

And for the Open Source Geeks (There is a lot of them according to my webstats:- )) -The PSEB have established The Open Source Resource Center with the aim of shifting from proprietary software to Open Source Software. As u can read here are many of the governmental projects based on OS SW.

There is a lot of talk about the dangers and risks on the net. I found this informativ test and an eyeopner for how difficult it is to differentate between phished and real sites.

I answered correct on 9 of the 10 questions and I am there there for a Safety Guru. Try it; it is rather difficult.