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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.

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.

Offshoring Brings Jobs to Africa

April 3, 2009 in Africa, Outsourcing by Daniel
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 [...]

My Experience with Samasource

March 31, 2009 in Nonprofits, Other, Outsourcing, Social Enterprise by Maria
I am a very optimistic person, optimistic to the point where most think I’m a little crazy. I have tried the “In a mad world, it’s only the mad that are considered sane” approach to assuage my need to fit in with the mostly glass-half-empty lot that most of my acquaintances are, but, it doesn’t [...]

A new look for Samasource

November 20, 2008 in Africa, Outsourcing, Social Enterprise, Technology by leila
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

September 9, 2008 in Africa, Nonprofits, Outsourcing, Technology by leila
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 [...]

Socially Responsible Outsourcing Listed as #1 Trend for 2008

July 30, 2008 in Outsourcing, Social Enterprise by dchen1
Like any good manager, CIO Ron Kifer wants to ensure that the outsourcing providers he hires are aligned with his own company’s objectives. Kifer goes beyond asking the typical questions that examine whether the work can be delivered on time and on budget: he looks at social and ethical factors as well. He is one [...]

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.