Re: Reputation of Mauritian IT Professionals & IT industry in Mauritius

From: S Moonesamy <sm+mu_at_elandsys.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2015 12:52:15 -0700

Hi Logan,
At 09:01 AM 8/22/2015, Loganaden Velvindron wrote:
>Several people from the outside have made the following remarks
>concerning IT professionals in Mauritius:
>
>"Mauritians are only capable of designing websites."
>
>The second most common remark is:
>
>" The IT industry in Mauritius is all about Call Center. It's a good
>place to setup a call-center with relatively cheap labour"

The "designing websites" and "Call Center" comments are about the
outsourcing industry. Is the so-called IT industry in Mauritius
limited to outsourcing?

>What are your opinion(s) concerning the future of IT professionals
>and the job market ?

It is up to IT professionals to express their opinion about the above.

>Do you think that Mauritians IT professionals & Companies will be
>able to go beyond that and offer more varied services to the EU/US Market ?

The local companies will have to do that if they wish to remain competitive.

Regards,
S. Moonesamy
Received on Sat Aug 22 2015 - 19:52:49 PST