But OverDrive's Jamaican facility is an example of something more sophisticated and more durable. Western firms are discovering the immense pools of skills, talent, innovation, and top notch scientific and other education often offered even by the poorest of nations. These multinationals entrust the locals now with more than keyboarding and responding to customer queries using fake names. The Jamaican venture is a business partnership. In a way, it is a topsy-turvy world.
Digital animation is produced in India and consumed in the States.
In other words, there are budding signs of a reversing brain drain - from West to East. Its migration to warmer and cheaper climates may be inevitable. OverDrive sounds happy enough.