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Palash’s Story

June 9, 2009 in Stories by Paul Zaich

“It was difficult for me to get job at any IT company or anywhere else because I had low education and zero experience.”

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Samasource hosts a Facebook Developer Garage in East Africa
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Samasource Gives You Customizable Facebook Testing

June 2, 2009 in Africa, Facebook by Paul Zaich

Facebook app developers: tell us what actions you need tested on your applications.

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Mildy’s Story

May 21, 2009 in Stories by Paul Zaich

“Without this job, I would be struggling. But I have discovered my inner power. I am ready for anything now!”

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Rethinking Outsourcing

May 15, 2009 in Nonprofits, Other by admin

I thought I’d share an Op-Ed I wrote that was published in The Star, a Malaysian newspaper, on Tuesday this week — it’s called Rethinking Outsourcing.
A positive social label could do much to change consumer perceptions of outsourcing to poor regions
IT’S a tough time for the outsourcing industry – 69% of Americans think outsourcing hurts [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Samasource featured in the Stanford Daily

January 27, 2009 in Other by leila

A reporter from the Daily discussed Samasource in her piece on the Social E Challenge Business Plan competition, published on the front page of today’s paper.
Check out the coverage here: http://www.stanforddaily.com/cgi-bin/?p=2268.

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Samasource’s Preciss International on CNBC TV

January 26, 2009 in Other by leila

This morning, I came across this CNBC interview of Mugure Mugo, the Kenyan owner of Preciss International, one of our pilot firms in Nairobi:

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Satyam Fraud Will Encourage New Outsourcing Models

January 7, 2009 in Other by leila

The New York Times reported today that Ramalinga Raju, chairman of Indian outsourcing giant Satyam Computer Services, falsified the company’s accounts, reporting over $1 billion of nonexistent assets in the second quarter of last year. (Read the full article here.)
While some analaysts warned clients (which have included several Fortune 500 companies, the US government, and [...]

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oDesk Global Outsourcing Statistics

January 5, 2009 in Other by leila

Amit Bakshi at oDesk summarized some interesting trends on oDesk, a platform for outsourcing to freelancers and small businesses. Of note:
*The country with the most service providers (and the highest average feedback) is the US
*Philippines is the fastest-growing country on oDesk
*India has the largest number of software and web providers, categories that have 3x the [...]

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