Stephen Ward
New York, NY (USA)
Role(s):
City Tech
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Location:
New York
Industry:
Technology/Web
Year Founded:
2007
Number Employees:
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Description:
With the rapid pace of technology, the gap between those with who are able to reap its
benefits and those who are not has grown increasingly wider. For those of us fortunate enough to be on the right side of this "digital divide", as it has been called, the rewards have been substantial. For everyone else, another case of the rich get richer.
NYC has created more technology jobs than anywhere in the U.S. -- yet that labor force is drifting away, out of NYC and over to India, Ireland, and Canada. This has translated to less of the emerging labor pool for technology, software developers in particular; college grads pursuing this market as a career choice have a perspective that their "career" will be eventually outsourced to offshore. Yet while offshoring can make great economic sense