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Regional News>New IT firm to open in Guyana month-end
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GEORGETOWN (Stabroek News): Global Services, a new information technology service provider equipped to provide high-level custom-built information technology programming for local and overseas clients, is to be launched in Guyana at month-end.
And according to Toronto-based George Melville, a former Guyana scholar and one of three founders of Global Services, the new company has already secured its first overseas contract under which it will deliver a net programming package directly to a firm in the United States under an agreement with a Canadian-based client.
The outsourcing of high-level information technology contracts from North America has become a major source of both income generation and employment for developing countries and, according to Melville Global Services, is likely to benefit from more such outsourcing if its Canadian client is satisfied with its first assignment.
The IT service to be provided by Global Services will include applications to enable businesses to communicate via the Internet and will embrace both document communication and financial communication.
Melville told Stabroek Business that the decision by the new company's Canadian client to outsource such a high-level assignment to a Guyanese company should be regarded as an important development in the local information technology sector. He explained that India and other developed and middle income countries with well-advanced information technology sectors continued to benefit significantly from such outsourcing by clients in North America.
"Global Services will be seeking to secure part of that market for Guyana," Melville told Stabroek Business.
The IT will be recruiting graduates of its sister company, Global Technology, which offers IT-related courses in a range of disciplines including computer programming, network administration, website design and data base administration and offers both local and overseas examinations.