Costa-RicaI was unable to attend this year’s Nearshore Americas Nexus event recently held in San Francisco, but I had a chance to watch a very informative presentation from former President of Costa Rica, Laura Chinchilla, titled “Costa Rica wants to export talent, not people”. You can see it here on the Nearshore Americas site . It is great insight from the former President, regarding Costa Rica specifically and LATAM’s overall economic situation and position as a provider of innovative talent.  Of course, this is of special interest to GlobalNow, since we provide IT development and QA services from our Colombia and Costa Rica affiliates, but I believe President’s Chinchilla speech provides a possible road map on how societies can evolve to a high level of economic success.

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