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ICT Migrants are those that have one or more of these qualities: ICT education (university or technical school), STEM education (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) with some ICT abilities; practical experience with ICT.
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Costa Rica, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, UAE/Dubai, UK, USA.
The USA's wealthy foreign-born technology elite include Andrew Grove of Hungary, who helped found Intel; Jerry Yang, the Taiwanese-born co-founder of Yahoo; Vinod Khosla of India and Andreas von Bechtolsheim of Germany, the co-founders of Sun Microsystems; Google's Russian-born co-founder, Sergey Brin; Bhatia founder of Hotmail.
American news outlets often cover the Kafkasian tales of the USA rejecting very talented ICT immigrants such as Sanjay Mavinkurve, of Google, who ended up moving to Toronto (Richtel, 2009).
Other policy options are possible: a national policy for receiving nations is to eliminate IS programs altogether and actively recruit IS professionals from abroad.
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Carmel, E. Import the IS students. J Inf Technol 25, 373–375 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1057/jit.2010.27
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