Fast Company: Santiago, Chile, one of the fastest cities in the world
Publicado el: 17 de noviembre de 2007
Source: Fast Company 
This year, for the first time, more of the earth's population will live in cities than in rural areas - 3.2 billion, according to United Nations estimates. "In a world where we can now work anywhere, we're tending to concentrate in fewer and fewer places", says Carol Colletta, president of CEO's for Cities, an advocacy group. "Smart people are choosing to live with smart people". FastCompany.com set out to find what they call Fast Cities, identifying the 30 fastest cities in the world. By fast they mean urban centers that are shaping the future, cauldrons of creativity where the most important ideas and organizations of tomorrow are centered. These cities attract the best and brightest. They are great places to work and live.
Santiago, Chile, was identified as one of these Fast Cities, rated 4.9 out of 5 points. Chile offers Latin America's most stable economy, most politically stable democracy, most solid financial system, most advanced digital and telecom industries, and one of the region's strongest educational systems and most educated workforces. Aggressively courting foreign investment and offering an extensive network of free trade and taxation agreements, Chile has become a top destination in the world for offshoring and outsourcing services, scoring highly in many rankings such as A.T. Kearney's "Global Service Location Index 2007", where Chile scored 7th among 50 global destinations, and The Economist Intelligence Unit's most recent "Future Leaders in Global Offshoring" report, where Chile was ranked first in Latin America. Companies like Citigroup, Evalueserve, GE, Citigroup, Unilever, Tata-TCS, Yahoo! Research and Oracle have already discovered these advantages, choosing Santiago as a regional or global business location.