Outsourcing seems to have recently become a buzz term in the business sphere. Actually, it is not only the word, which has become so popular, but also the process itself. The reality is that many respected businesses aim at outsourcing their business processes. The number of businesses in various industries shifting their work to outside parties is astonishing! If so, outsourcing process must bring quite huge financial benefits to the people introducing it into their businesses.



North America already experiences substantial lay-offs in IT, Web design and engineering as businesses tend to cut in their costs and outsource project, business projects to India, China or Russia.

Today fierce competition in the sphere of outsourcing has grown to the level of competetion not only between individual companies but regions or countries.

I would like to introduce a new player on international outsourcing market that has a hidden potential to become a European Silicon Valley - it's Belarus.

The country's strength is rooted in its mature technical infrastructure and reputable educational system inherited from Soviet times when Belarus used to manufacture over 50 percent of the computers and computer components in the former USSR. A lot of programmers in Belarus have participated in scientific R&D projects for the military, energy and other industries of the former Soviet Union. Belarus is among the few countries in the world whose specialists have been involved in construction of space stations, global communication systems, and nuclear development projects.

Belarus has a well-developed educational system, which currently includes more than 57 high educational establishments that prepare specialist virtually in every field of human activities. Taking into consideration current population (below 10 mln. people) one may get an idea of overall education level in Belarus.

According to the Human Development Report 2005 of the United Nations Development Program, Belarus remains the leader among CIS states in terms of education and takes the lead over a number of developed countries on such indicators as public expenditure on education (6 % of GDP), adult literacy (99.6 %) and youth literacy (99.8 %). There are 58 colleges in Belarus and over 46 thousand graduates annually. 48-50% of the graduates are students of IT and technical universities, that is over 23 thousand new IT and technical specialists annually.

Geographical and cultural proximity to the EU is also important. Minsk (the capital of the Republic) is within a two and a half hour flight from Frankfurt, and one hour after landing you can already be at our office. Lennart Jakobsson, CEO and Owner of Swedish high tech company Litcon Invest AB, says Belarus exceeded his expectations when he came there for the first time: "I met many Belarusian businessmen and IT professionals and was amazed by how easy it was to communicate with them. They are really willing to cooperate and, most importantly, they get things done in a fast and proper manner," he says. Now Jacobsson is considering setting up a software company of his own in Belarus.

Move Your Web is a major outsourcing center in Belarus that managed to benefit from countries potential and its most precious resource - its people. Move Your Web created a team of young specialists who highly knowledgeable in numerous fields. The company offers its customers a unique scheme Offshore

Dedicated Center or ODC. ODC operates as a virtual IT extension of your organization, leveraging a managed team of excellent professionals and solid infrastructure offered at cost effective rates. It will

accumulate both business process knowledge and technical expertise to accommodate to your specific needs. Having several development offices in Belarus MoveYourWeb provides its clients with distance access to highly skilled software and web developers, database architects, QA testers, designers, SEO engineers, and copywriters both on full-time and temporary basis.