Photos: Most dangerous places to outsource your IT

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Brazil’s famous carnival city has a high crime rate and a low number of police per citizen.

A report published by the Brown-Wilson Group details which locations are the most risky places to offshore your IT.

The 2009: The Year of Outsourcing Dangerously took into account various considerations that could maker offshoring IT to these locations risky.

These were:

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