About Fair Outsourcing:
Our name is derived from an effort to combine the benefits of Fair Trade with the advantages of Outsourcing. As a social enterprise, we seek to provide professional web design services to small businesses, non-profit organizations, and charities that would not normally be able to afford these on their own, while also offering living wage jobs with good working conditions in Bolivia.
Why outsource?
There are many reasons why outsourcing your web site services abroad makes sense. Today´s tough economic times mean that quality website development and maintenance are well beyond the means of many companies and organizations. Yet having a quality web presence can be very useful if not vital for generating revenue and saving resources. One of the advantages of social outsourcing is that we can offer you very affordable website services which allow you to focus your resources and attention on more important, broader issues. We provide the kind of professional expertise that would be too difficult or time consuming to develop in-house. Fair Outsourcing is your affordable web design solution.
Why Bolivia?
Fair Outsourcing is an Alternative Trading Organization which provides living wage jobs in Bolivia while providing you with very affordable professional web design services. Bolivia´s lack of well paid jobs means that it has the lowest average income in South America and one of the highest migration rates in the world - nearly one in four Bolivians currently live abroad for work (mostly from the urban middle class).
Our social outsourcing of Fair Trade in IT to Bolivians can make a big difference. While you are getting a great deal on website services, because of the relatively low cost of living in Bolivia, Fair Outsourcing can still provide great jobs here which boost the local economy helping keep people home and families together.
Bolivia also makes sense because it is always on Eastern US daylight savings time (GMT-4hrs) allowing easy and effective communications during your regular business hours by email, chat, phone, and video conferencing.
Our Staff:
Our staff includes native English speakers (US) to ensure perfect understanding. We are devoted to providing you with professional high quality customer service dedicated to finding an appropriate solution to your internet needs. A combination of artistic, technical, and linguistic skills makes Fair Outsourcing your one stop shop for website design, development, and maintenance, as well as search engine optimization (SEO), and bilingual websites.
Social and Environmental Responsibility:
Fair Outsourcing is a social enterprise established in order to work toward a more fair trade system both locally and globally. Through social outsourcing, we strive to ensure that both webmasters and customers get a fair deal in a win-win situation. A percentage of our work is donated pro bono to local charities, social justice, human rights, peace, and environmental groups that do not have the means to establish a presence on the internet. We also specialize in green web design so that your site uses less energy, loads really fast, and is fully search engine compatible.
What is Fair Trade?
Fair Trade is all about putting people first. Its main aim is poverty alleviation. Fair Trade is a trading partnership, based on dialogue, transparency and respect, that seeks greater equity in international trade. It contributes to sustainable development by offering better trading conditions to, and securing the rights of, marginalized producers and workers – especially in the South. Fair Trade Organizations, backed by consumers, are engaged actively in supporting producers, awareness raising and in campaigning for changes in the rules and practice of conventional international trade (European Fair Trade Association 2009). read more . . .
Most fair trade benefits people making or growing products such as coffee, sugar, handicrafts etc. Fair Outsourcing seeks to expand these benefits to producers of higher value added computer services provided by people in the global South. There is currently no international organization or association which coordinates Fair Trade in IT within the web design industry, but as an Alternative Trading Organization, we strive to uphold the worldwide standards and goals set by Fair Trade Associations.
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