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Samasource Developer Featured in NY Times

July 21, 2008 in Africa, Outsourcing, Social Enterprise, Technology by leila
Wilfred Mworia, a 22 year-old employee of Samasource vendor Verviant in Nairobi, and winner of Samasource’s Facebook Developer Challenge in April, discussed Kenya’s growing technology community in a New York Times article over the weekend. The piece also covers Google’s activities in Kenya and highlights Skunkworks, a local community of software developers. Check out the full [...]

Rural BPO Drishtee featured on CNN

June 12, 2008 in Africa, Outsourcing, Technology by leila
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYvoHeYe8fk] One of Samasource’s vendors, rural outsourcing company Drishtee, was featured recently on CNN IBN (CNN’s sister organization in India). Drishtee’s model is intriguing – by linking villages across India in a distributed network, the company can tap thousands of skilled rural workers to scale client projects rapidly. If your enterprise has data entry, transcription, or [...]

Samasource gets hip with a new video

April 22, 2008 in Africa, Outsourcing, Social Enterprise, Technology by leila
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18hRwHOSNbY] Many thanks to Michael Wheet, filmmaker extraordinaire.

Opportunities in outsourcing ripe for SMEs

March 4, 2008 in Africa, Outsourcing, Social Enterprise by imende
As corporate competition rises companies are constantly looking for solutions to increase efficiency at manageable costs. Several companies have discovered that outsourcing certain operations of their business has provided these solutions and allowed them to leverage their competitive edge. The idea behind it is to outsource secondary operations that are not core skill [...]

Kenya’s Quest for Fiber

February 26, 2008 in Africa, Outsourcing, Technology by leila
From Sam Imende, Samasource’s program manager in Nairobi: Kenyans are eagerly anticipating the construction of two major fiber optic cable lines that will greatly enhance internet services and significantly cut down the costs of telecommunications in the region. The current copper cables and satellite systems in Kenya have put ICT based companies at a major disadvantage [...]

“Wily Brokers” Hurt Kenyan Outsourcing Firms

January 15, 2008 in Africa, Outsourcing, Technology by leila
Brokers have cost some of East Africa’s top outsourcing firms tens of thousands of dollars in finder’s fees that led nowhere. A recent article in Business Daily Africa reports that many local firms are forced to use middlemen to find work, since foreign business development is prohibitively expensive. Often based abroad, middlemen dictate contract terms [...]

Kenyan Election Crisis

January 3, 2008 in Africa by leila
Charges of rigged national elections in Kenya have led to outbursts of violence in some areas, leaving between 200 and 300 people killed and many more displaced since December 27th. Earlier today, opposition leader Raila Ondinga urged his supporters to take to the streets in a peaceful rally to protest President Mwai Kibaki’s reinstatement, which [...]

World Bank: African Diaspora Key to the Continent’s Development

December 10, 2007 in Africa, Outsourcing by leila
The World Bank held an African Diaspora Open House on November 29th in Washington, D.C. A 2005 study found that remittances from members of the diaspora are in excess of $4-6 billion per year, making this group a vital force in Africa’s development. This has some implications for the responsible outsourcing movement. Professionals living outside their [...]

Kenyan Students on African Outsourcing

November 5, 2007 in Africa, Outsourcing by leila
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O22YVbarlAM]

PodTech:Basic Technologies Matter in Sub-Sahara Africa

November 4, 2007 in Africa, Technology by leila
Video of the Connect Africa Summit in Kigali. Dr. Bitange Ndemo, Permanent Secretary of Kenya’s Department of Information and Communication and a supporter of Samasource, represented the country along with a number of technology entrepreneurs. [podtech content=http://media1.podtech.net/media/2007/11/PID_012955/Podtech_Intel_Barrett_Abuja_Nigeria.mp3&postURL=http://www.podtech.net/home/4495/basic-technologies-matter-in-sub-sahara-africa&totalTime=568000&breadcrumb=9cf92077d412466597dd50b5603860d2]