Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego (and Is She a Software Engineer)?

Recent conversations pertaining to licensure of software engineers in the US and offshoring had me thinking about Carmen again. I wondered how well she would have fared if her secret agent cover was as a software guru. Would she be able to pass as a software engineer in several different countries-for example, in the US, India, Malaysia, Argentina, and Ireland? Are there differences in how software engineering is practiced in different cultures that are so profound that even a super spy, expert at mimicry and disguise, couldn´t fool her colleagues? The answers to these questions have important implications for the transnational practice of software engineering, for outsourcing and offshoring policy and strategy, and even for national security.