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Market for Change is now Samasource

We’ve changed our name to Samasource. Sama is a Sanskrit word meaning “level” or “equal.” Over the coming weeks, we’ll be migrating the site to www.samasource.org and announcing a number of new partnerships – please stay tuned!

Facebook Developer Garage: Nairobi

Thanks to all who participated in our event yesterday — over 120 students and professional developers attended to learn about social networks and development and participate in East Africa’s first Facebook Developer Garage. If you missed it, check out some of the content here.Special thanks to panelists Kevit Desai (Director, Kenya Private Sector Alliance), [...]

Kenyan fibre optic cable on track to go live by mid-2009

Latest news on fibre optic infrastructure in Kenya: The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Information & Communication, Bitange Ndemo, confirmed yesterday to the Kenya Business Process Outsourcing & Contact Centre Society that the East Africa Marine System (TEAMS) is on track and will be completed by June 2009. And by August 2008, [...]

Samasource Wins 15,000 Euros at BiD Challenge International

Samasource was selected from over 3,400 business plans as a second place winner of the Business in Development Challenge. The 15,000 euro prize will be used as seed capital to start Samasource’s website, launching in February 2008. For more information, check out: http://www.bidnetwork.org/set-81743-en.html Thanks to the BiD network’s excellent staff and all of our supporters, [...]

Samasource to host Nairobi Facebook Event

The University of Nairobi’s Department of Informatics has agreed to co-host the first-ever Facebook “Developer Garage” in East Africa, in partnership with Samasource. Facebook, a popular social utility based in Silicon Valley, will partially sponsor the event. Developer Garage Nairobi will bring together approximately 100 computer science students, faculty and local developers to discuss ways [...]