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Category Archives: Social Enterprise
Samasource Developer Featured in NY Times
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.
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Samasource gets hip with a new video
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Many thanks to Michael Wheet, filmmaker extraordinaire.
Opportunities in outsourcing ripe for SMEs
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 [...]
Thomas Friedman on I.T. and E.T. in Rural India
Tom Friedman wrote about the growing rural BPO trend in India last year after traveling to Ethakota, a small village east of Hyderabad where Satyam Computer Services, one of India’s outsourcing giants, set up a data center. In a New York Times Op-Ed, Friedman describes the challenge of setting up shop in areas with unreliable [...]
Values-Based Consumerism
Bruce Cahan, an Ashoka Fellow and recent addition to Samasource’s Advisory Committee, gave a TechTalk at Google’s Mountain View campus a few weeks back on the need for better feedback loops for consumers who wish to buy products that reflect their values.
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The talk raised a couple of interesting points:
1. Ratings systems for ethical consumerism (including [...]
Creative Capitalism
At the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos last month, Bill Gates outlined the framework of his thinking on how the world can eliminate poverty, which he dubbed “creative capitalism.” Creative capitalism reflects Gates’ belief that the most powerful and sustainable solutions to many of the world’s most intractable problems are not separate from [...]
One Laptop Per Freelancer
One Laptop Per Child is making headlines with its $188 XO laptop, the brainchild of MIT’s Nicholas Negroponte. The project has received plenty of criticism for its failure to lower the price to $100 (Negroponte’s goal) and attract key politicians and government buyers from low-income countries. Some tech bloggers and reviewers dislike the laptop itself, [...]
World of Good to Launch Online Fair Trade Hub
World of Good, IFAT and eBay are partnering to sell “people positive products” on Project Good, a new online hub for fair trade producers. The project will feature a Community Site and Seller Hub to help smaller companies build their brands effectively.
It’s unclear what sort of impact this will have on the sale of fair [...]
Drishtee’s BPO Experiment
Stanford students Jon Casto and Christina Ward went to India this summer to profile a new BPO project in rural Indian villages managed by Drishtee, a social enterprise supported by the Acumen Fund and the International Finance Corporation. Jon contacted Samasource before his trip, and kept us in touch with the Drishtee team. Read more [...]
Socially Responsible Outsourcing Listed as #1 Trend for 2008