Tweets from Samasource- Samasource: Rare opportunity to learn about economic development first-hand: Calcutta & Haiti Senior Associate positions available: http://bit.ly/9CfG6w
- Samasource: Red-hot: Samasource growth thaws a frigid San Francisco Summer - Pamela Pavkov recounts her Associate time @samasource http://bit.ly/ddTpUf
- Samasource: RT @arrington: Crowdsourcing Disaster Relief http://t.co/RWJ8Gns via @techcrunch
- Samasource: @leila_c in @techcrunch on how @samasource uses data to make disaster relief more effective: http://tcrn.ch/dymCZB #givework
- Samasource: We are getting excited for Samasource's 2nd Annual Give Work Gala! Happens 11.11.10 - email gala@samasource.org for more info!
- Samasource: Tech For (And By) Africa http://t.co/SwwQUwI via @techcrunch
- Samasource: @samasource Stipend Haiti Field Associate position, begin in Sept. careers@samasource.org w/resume 4 info! http://bit.ly/c8yiiK @RAMhaiti
- Samasource: Leila Chirayath Janah on Samasource bridging the digital divide and creating a global meritocracy... http://fb.me/EYeshXJo
- Samasource: A comprehensive article on Leila Chirayath Janah @leila_c and Samasource: http://bit.ly/9U5rRl #givework http://fb.me/zgyP2ebi
- Samasource: @IncMagazine features @samasource in slideshow "6 Cool Crowdsourcing Business Tools" check it out here: http://bit.ly/cXcH83
Category Archives: Africa
Leila represents Samasource at the African Social Enterprise Forum
The African Social Enterprise Forum has tons of the hardest working social entrepreneurship organizations such as Acumen Fund, the Rockefeller Foundation, Endeavor, Ashoka and Social Private Equity South Africa - and of course Samasource.
See Leila speak about the challenges of using microwork to help people in Africa make their own livelihoods online. Dignified digital jobs for the next billion.
How Samasource Could Empower Paul Parach
Meet Paul Parach. He’s 24, and currently in his second year of high school, thanks to CARE International’s operations in Dadaab. His story will make you stop whatever you’re doing and think about the latent talent of people in refugee camps.
Paul left his small village in South Sudan at the age of 9, chased out [...]
Samasource Gives You Customizable Facebook Testing
Facebook app developers: tell us what actions you need tested on your applications.
Offshoring Brings Jobs to Africa
While U.S. firms are laying-off employees, IT outsourcing is doing well on foreign streets. The debate over offshoring has been brewing since a 2002 study by the research group Forrester predicted that 3.3 million white-collar American jobs (including 500,000 IT positions) would move overseas to countries such as India by 2015.
More than 75 percent of [...]
Samasource to host Facebook Developer Garages in Ghana, Uganda
Samasource is partnering with the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology and Appfrica, an NGO, to host two more Facebook Garages in Africa. These events help young software and web developers learn how to use their skills to create applications for Facebook, the fourth-most trafficked website in the US.
To learn more:
>> Visit the event pages on [...]
A new look for Samasource
Samasource has a spiffy new design!
The new site is parked at www.samasource.com. We’ll keep what’s currently at the .org up as our blog; if you want to stay up to date on Samasource news, please become a fan on Facebook.
Samasource wins contract with Bookshare.org
Last week, Samasource’s brokerage service scored our biggest contract to date– a book validation pilot project with Bookshare.org, one of the many technology-driven projects initiated at Benetech, an award-winning nonprofit based in Palo Alto and led by veteran social entrepreneur Jim Fruchterman. Bookshare provides print disabled people in the US access to over 40,000 books [...]
A Parisian in Nairobi – Part 2