Harish Palaniappan's

First,
Outsourced software,
Then,
Backend technical support and customer support work,
Then,
Outsourced backend business processes,.. (slowly business itself)
Then,
Outsourced Health & Medicine jobs,..
...
...
So much so about outsourcing work to India and China... the Americans and a few other developed nations seem to have listed a lot of other "Activities" for outsourcing.

I call these "Activities" because from whatever I heard these things don't seem like stuff that has to be given to a different country to be done.

Slowly but steadily "Activities" are being outsourced to India and China. Wondering what these "Activities" are?

Lately I have heard about two items that are being outsourced.

"Teaching mathematics to children.. online"
There are a couple of indian service companies, which make a regular and growing income out of "Teaching mathematics online to foreign school kids(includes doing the child's homework at offshore sometimes)"... this was on an article in the daily 'The Hindu' (see links below).

Call India, if you need help with your lessons
Education process outsourcing: The next big business opening?

Game levels
News is that children in china are working 12 hr shifts to play outsourced game levels... (I also didn't get this proper at first.)
It seems like some kids in the developed nations are outsourcing the first few levels of their computer games to be completed by chinese kids for money, so that they don't have to do with those simple not-so-interesting levels in the game.. read more on link below.

Ogre to Slay? Outsource It to Chinese (click 'skip Ad' if one appears when link opens)
Daniel markharrison: Outsourcing Fun?

Is all this Bad?
Outsourcing is not bad.. but when people are outsourcing any stuff just because there are peope to do it cheap.. then it is Bad. Some thought should be applied as to where one should cut costs..

All the time, I wondered why are Americans so worried about software outsourcing taking off their life... because what is outsourced most of the time is a maintenance or support job... or plain simply nothing innovative in software is outsourced.

Now, learning about the "Activities" that are being outsourced... I am really worried for both sides.. for the Giver and the Taker of outsourced jobs.

The Taker,
> gets to lose a level of credibility by accepting such low-level jobs just because they are being outsourced and money honey is there.
> Shouldn't and cannot get into any impression that there can be a steady revenue from such outsourcing of "Activities".
(I am really worried about some Indian enterpreneurs so lethargically saying there are 20billion $ and 70 billion $ to make from this "industry" such as online Maths coaching.)

The Giver,
> gets to not only lose money (may be the Giver has enormous sources of funds), but gets to lose the goodness about life, in doing some day-to-day routines.
> have a feeling that outsourcing maximum possible will give time to do new innovation. They have to understand that you can't innovate all the time... Also, sometimes doing a repeated task, or maintaining old innovations itself will lead to another innovation.

Whatever! If India or China accepts such stupidly low-end outsourcing jobs just to make that extra money, I think we will end up losing a lot of time to become what 'Givers' are all along..... Developed nations.

And, if people in developed nations are outsourcing stuff like "teaching children" to any 'Takers'; these developed nations are not only outsourcing their activities but their daily life. It definitely has an effect on their economy.

I remember reading an article by some author a couple of years back, when outsourcing was highly debated. The author had told his american readers... "Imagine your daily food is made in China and packaged to you, Imagine your daily office work is being done by some chinese or indian for you and you pay him less than a quarter of your salary sitting at home brewing your coffee,... don't you think this way life will get to a monotonous stage, won't we become highly dependent on other nations for our food, clothes, work and everything.. from America's highly independent and powerful state against other countries today, won't these lesser developed countries start dictating how we live here.. .."

Back then, when I read the above stuff, I certainly thought this author was too fictional. But Now...:o)