Cisco plans to work with Palestinian authorities over the next several months to help IT companies in the West Bank and Gaza Strip bolster their ability to handle large outsourcing contracts from the U.S. and other countries.
The United States Agency for International Development, along with advisory partner Carana Corp., are assisting with the project.
Cisco and USAID’s Enterprise Development and Investment Promotion (EDIP) project for Palestine will, over the next six to 12 months, “collaborate to ensure that the participant companies will be ready to enter global outsourcing contracts at the end of the program,” USAID said in a mission briefing last week.
While Israeli companies dominate the tech sector in the Mideast, the Palestinian territory has been quietly building an IT outsourcing industry over the past couple of years with the help of U.S. IT firms. In addition to Cisco, Microsoft, Google, and Hewlett-Packard are investing in the region.
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