Outsourcing to Arkansas

CNBC ran a story about outsourcing to Arkansas yesterday. A lady by the name of Dr. Kathy White has started a company in Jonesboro to aid companies in outscouring to us poor underpriveldged folks. (The author of this blog is a software consultant in Little Rock, Arkansas.) She has a very impressive bio that I've pasted further below.

Forget India; outsource jobs to Arkansas

Company website of Rural Sourcing, Inc. (Accepting resumes for those so inclined...)

She gave ASU in Jonesboro a $2 million dollar gift to establish the Horizon Institute of Technology. (I'm going to ask her for a few million to establish our own institute of something or another.)

From her company's website:

Founder and President
Dr. Kathy Brittain White is Founder and President of Rural Sourcing, Inc., an organization developing information technology employment in rural communities. She also founded the Horizon Institute of Technology* that supports technology outreach initiatives in Rural America. Ms. White retired as Executive Vice President and Chief information Officer of Cardinal Health, Inc. in March of 2003. She also held executive positions with Honeywell and Baxter Healthcare. White spent ten years as associate professor of information technology at University of North Carolina, Greensboro.

Dr. White is a member of the Board of Directors of Mattel, Inc., Novell, Inc., and Certegy, Inc. She was named in Forbes Top 25 America's Businesswomen in 2001; top 10 CIO's in the United States, 1997 Information Week; Top 100 Women in Computing, 1994 Open Computing.