12 IT associations have joined to overcome the impact of COVID-19

12 business associations who represent the interests of outsourcing companies around the world have joined forces to overcome the effects of the coronary crisis in the IT industry. Named The Global Technology & Business Service Council (GT & BSC), the initiative began its work in June 2020.

The representative body of 12 business associations called Global-12 includes associations that together represent the interests of more than 10 thousand technology companies, startups, etc .:

1. Global Sourcing Association (GSA), United Kingdom
2. IT Ukraine Association, Ukraine
3. IAOP, USA
4. Deutscher Outsourcing Verband – German Outsourcing Association, Germany
5. The Association of Business Service Leaders (ABSL), Poland
6. Association for innovation, business excellence, services and technology (AIBEST), Bulgaria
7. The National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM), India
8. Business Process Enabling South Africa (BPESA), South Africa
9. Outsourcing Malaysia (OM), Malaysia
10. Sri Lanka Association of Software and Service Companies (SLASSCOM), Sri Lanka
11. Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA), Egypt
12. Astra Strategic Outsourcing Association, Russia.

The initiative was organized by the British Global Sourcing Association (GSA). In the framework of cooperation, the associations agreed that:

• share their practices, cases, analytical data of local markets that may be useful to other participants in Global-12;

• to form a joint information agenda to overcome the consequences of the COVID-19 epidemic;
• develop and pool human resources within the global IT market.