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Leila C. Janah

Leila C. Janah is the editor of the Samasource blog (for now). You can learn more about her by visiting her personal site, www.leilac.com.

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 – [...]

Rethinking Outsourcing

May 15, 2009 in Nonprofits, Other by admin
I thought I’d share an Op-Ed I wrote that was published in The Star, a Malaysian newspaper, on Tuesday this week — it’s called Rethinking Outsourcing. A positive social label could do much to change consumer perceptions of outsourcing to poor regions IT’S a tough time for the outsourcing industry – 69% of Americans think outsourcing hurts [...]