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Category Archives: Technology
Samasource launches outsourcing survey
In an effort to better understand the outsourcing needs of US non-profits, socially-responsible companies, and small businesses, we’ve launched a brief survey.
Responses will be used to recruit vendors that meet our quality and social impact criteria for our pilot project, starting this month.
The New and Improved Facebook Platform
Ben Ling, Director of Platform Product Marketing at Facebook, offered some valuable insights on the direction of Facebook’s platform to attendees of Graphing Social Patterns in San Diego. His talk emphasized increased support for applications that add long term value (such as Causes, an app that helps users support non-profit organizations) and tools that eliminate [...]
Kenya’s Quest for Fiber
From Sam Imende, Samasource’s program manager in Nairobi:
Kenyans are eagerly anticipating the construction of two major fiber optic cable lines that will greatly enhance internet services and significantly cut down the costs of telecommunications in the region. The current copper cables and satellite systems in Kenya have put ICT based companies at a major disadvantage [...]
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 [...]
The Green IT Revolution
Gartner, a Stamford-based consulting firm, recently named “green IT” as one of the ten forces that will shape business and information technology in 2008. Survey data seems to support this — according to Forrester Research, as of October, 38% of IT professionals said their companies use environmental criteria in their evaluation and selection of IT [...]
“Wily Brokers” Hurt Kenyan Outsourcing Firms
Brokers have cost some of East Africa’s top outsourcing firms tens of thousands of dollars in finder’s fees that led nowhere. A recent article in Business Daily Africa reports that many local firms are forced to use middlemen to find work, since foreign business development is prohibitively expensive. Often based abroad, middlemen dictate contract terms [...]
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 [...]
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