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Summer at Samasource

July 27, 2010 in Nonprofits, Social Enterprise, Technology by Joon-Mo Ok

We are well into our Summer Associate program at Samasource. We have four full-time Associates spread across Haiti, India, and Kenya and five more Associates in our San Francisco office – Samasource’s largest Associate class ever. Our roles vary as much as our experience. We tackle marketing, fundraising, quality, client management, and engineering, and plenty [...]

A screenshot of the crisis mapper software in action

Training the Trainers in Haiti

May 19, 2010 in Other by admin

Samasource is excited to have Denise ‘Roz’ Sewell, Director of Crisis Mapping for the Ushahidi Haiti Project, sharing a blog post with us from her recent travels to the 1,000 Jobs / Haiti site in Mirebalais. There she introduced the Samasource work team to several new software innovations that make pinpointing the locations of emergencies much [...]

Join Samasource's own Eric Nguyen at Social Change 2.0 May 3rd

April 30, 2010 in Other, Technology by admin

Social Change 2.0 – Using the Web for Good

Curious to find out more about how the web is shaping the future of the “social change” movement? Come find out on May 3! Hear from an exceptional group of speakers who are using the power of information technology to achieve social impact offline.
Date: Monday, May 3rd, 2010

Time: 7:00 – [...]

Interviewing the Workers of 1,000 Jobs/Haiti

April 2, 2010 in Haiti, Nonprofits, Stories by ricky

Right before the January 12th earthquake in Haiti, Samasource brought on its newest Service Partner, 1,000 Jobs/Haiti. In the wake of the earthquake, the Haitian team immediately got to work on an important new project, translating emergency SMS messages as part of the Mission 4636 project. Samasource is helping to rebuild lives by creating much needed [...]

Rebuilding Haiti: Samasource’s Part

March 25, 2010 in Haiti, Outsourcing, Stories, Technology by chelsea

Samasource’s engineering team (Eric Nguyen and Alex Onsager) travelled to Haiti at the end of April to establish our first microwork center in the country. Read about the earthquake, Samasource’s investment in Haiti, and our workers’ part in an innovative emergency SMS system.

“Netexplorateurs of the Year” Award

February 5, 2010 in Other by ricky

Samasource and Crowdflower received the “Netexplorateurs of the Year” Award for their GiveWork iPhone application at the French Senate in Paris today. This award is conferred on the most promising digital initiatives each year; in previous years, Twitter and the Dutch augmented reality application Layar were recognized.
Samasource and CrowdFlower were covered on the French news [...]

Lloyd Taylor – Newest Samasource Board Member

January 22, 2010 in Stories by chelsea

We are thrilled to have Lloyd Taylor on our Board! He brings a great deal of experience from his time at LinkedIn where he scaled their infrastructure to support their rapid growth to developing an infinitely scalable global physical infrastructure for Google’s server farms. We are very lucky to have his input and [...]

Samasource in Haiti: It’s funny how things turn out sometimes

January 17, 2010 in Facebook, Nonprofits, Outsourcing, Social Enterprise by anar

Anar Simpson, Samasource Program Director, reflects on our evaluation of potential Haitian partner 1,000 Jobs.

A Parisian in Nairobi – Part 2

December 31, 2009 in Africa, Facebook, Nonprofits, Other, Social Enterprise, Stories, Technology by Laetitia

Nairobi is the largest and most modern city in East Africa. It is growing very fast and is the center for many organizations and businesses in the region. Though the word Nairobi means “Place of cool water” for Masaii people, it is not the case this month (November ’09). In fact, the current drought striking [...]

A Parisian in Nairobi – Samasource’s first Fellow

October 29, 2009 in Africa, Other, Stories by Laetitia

When arriving in Nairobi, one can quickly feel stifled by people, noise, pollution, so the charm of the city is not obvious at first. This city is like a whirlwind that can be stunning. But after the first shockwave, one gets used to this environment and appreciates the kind of life Nairobi has to offer.
I [...]