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Summer at Samasource

July 27, 2010 in Nonprofits, Social Enterprise, Technology by Joon-Mo Ok
We are well into our Summer Associate program at Samasource.  We have four full-time Associates spread across Haiti, India, and Kenya and five more Associates in our San Francisco office – Samasource’s largest Associate class ever.  Our roles vary as much as our experience.  We tackle marketing, fundraising, quality, client management, and engineering, and plenty [...]

Join Samasource's own Eric Nguyen at Social Change 2.0 May 3rd

April 30, 2010 in Other, Technology by admin
Social Change 2.0 – Using the Web for Good Curious to find out more about how the web is shaping the future of the “social change” movement? Come find out on May 3! Hear from an exceptional group of speakers who are using the power of information technology to achieve social impact offline. Date: Monday, May 3rd, 2010 Time: 7:00 – [...]

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.

A Parisian in Nairobi – Part 2

December 31, 2009 in Africa, Facebook, Nonprofits, Other, Social Enterprise, Stories, Technology by Laetitia
Nairobi is the largest and most modern city in East Africa. It is growing very fast and is the center for many organizations and businesses in the region. Though the word Nairobi means “Place of cool water” for Masaii people, it is not the case this month (November ’09). In fact, the current drought striking [...]

Fishing Expedition: One Intern’s Journey from Wall Street to Refugee Camps

July 15, 2009 in Africa, Social Enterprise, Stories, Technology by Kate Brennan
As the proverb goes, “Give a man a fish and you have fed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime”. By leveraging technology to create jobs for the next billion, Samasource is teaching individuals how to fish. Fishing … I can’t think of a better way to spend my summer.

Samasource to host Facebook Developer Garages in Ghana, Uganda

November 27, 2008 in Africa, Facebook, Social Enterprise, Technology by leila
Samasource is partnering with the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology and Appfrica, an NGO, to host two more Facebook Garages in Africa. These events help young software and web developers learn how to use their skills to create applications for Facebook, the fourth-most trafficked website in the US. To learn more: >> Visit the event pages on [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]