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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 [...]

Responsible Outsourcing

The anti-globalization movement of the 1990s was a reaction to many emerging trends. One of them was a shift away from the domestic production of goods. By using complex global supply chains and an array of sub-contractors, it was held, companies could distance themselves from exploitive production processes (read: sweatshops) in developing countries. Corporations [...]