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GoodGuide, Find Green, Give Work make Socialbrite’s Top 10 list Mobile applications are flooding the market at a dizzying rate — more than 150,000 now for the iPhone and tens of thousands for Android and Blackberry. And it’s important to keep in mind that only 18 percent of the phones in the United States are smart phones, as reported at yesterday’s Where 2.0 conference, so text-only SMS plays an important part in many of the campaigns run by nonprofits, NGOs and anyone interested in doing good. Read more ...
Le micro-job est-il l’avenir des pays sous-développés ? A l’occasion du Forum Netexplorateur, le 5 février dernier, les lauréats Lukas Biewald et Leila Chirayath Janah ont présenté Give Work, une application pour iPhone qui permet de donner du travail aux réfugiés de Dadaab, au Kenya. Read more ...
Software developers displaced by war and living in a Kenyan refugee camp are getting the opportunity to use their skills thanks to an effort by outsourced service provider Samasource and CARE International. Read more ...
The next time you say you want to help make the world a better place, try putting your mobile where your mouth is. Combining the strengths of mobile technology, non-profit organizations and crowdsourcing (i.e. calling on members of the public to complete small tasks as part of a bigger project, like Wikipedia), new mobile-phone applications are making volunteer work all the more accessible. Read more ...
This is truly the hottest iPhone app EVAH! Samasource and CrowdFlower have teamed up to present Give Work, their new iPhone application. Give Work lets you support refugees in Dadaab, Kenya—the world’s largest refugee site—in minutes by completing short, on-screen tasks. In this video interview, Leila Chirayath Janah, Founder of Samasource, and Lukas Biewald, Founder of CrowdFlower, tell us about this innovative new iPhone app Read more ...
The spread of information technology from laptops and computers to the world wide web and cellphones is helping people in impoverished nations earn money. The nonprofit group Samasource sees IT jobs for poor countries as a great source of economic growth in places like Kenya, where the organization is bringing IT jobs to refugees. Read more ...
October 15, 2009
In the news: A nonprofit brings tech jobs to Third World Refugees
Stephanie Spino, Everon Technology Insider
Refugees in Kenya are now finding Internet-based work that is not only bringing them out of poverty, but tripling what they could ever possibly learn before! Thanks to a nonprofit known as Samasource, workers stuck in the world’s largest refugee camp are given a chance to make some cash and improve their living conditions. Read more ...
It might sound like a pretty outlandish idea that an iPhone application can provide jobs for refugees in Kenya, but the folks behind the Give Work App are dreaming big, writes Erica Liepmann, Associate Editor at Causecast. Dadaab, Kenya is home to extreme poverty and the largest refugee camp in the world. Through the Give Work system, refugees in Dadaab receive Internet training and well-paying, dignified jobs. Read more ...
Think you have it tough in this stubborn, seemingly endless recession? I am not one to make light of the extremely tight job market in nearly every industrialized nation, but try getting a job in a Kenyan refugee camp. Read more ...
THE very poorest people on the planet have benefited little from the digital economy, but a pilot project in African refugee camps has hinted at how that might change. Refugees at the Dadaab camps in Kenya have been able to dramatically increase their income by tapping into a global demand for unskilled digital labour. Read more ...
Doleres labs, one of the blogs i follow recently posted about their new iPhone app they have launched called Give Work. The app was launched together with Sama Source, an organisation that routes ‘micro-work’ via computers and mobiles to the poverty striken refugees and people in Africa. Read more ...
Sustainable outsourcers Samasource, in conjunction with Crowdflower, have just launched Give Work, a new iPhone application that allows users to complete micro-tasks alongside refugees in Kenya, in the process creating a new source of income and opportunity. Read more ...
October 13, 2009
New iPhone App Makes Jobs For Refugees In Dedaab Kenya
Erica Liepmann, Causecast.org
It might sound like a pretty outlandish idea that an iPhone application can provide jobs for refugees in Kenya, but the folks behind the Give Work App are dreaming big! Read more ...
For the last few months, Mashable has been exploring the potential of social media for Social Good. We have seen the power of Twitter and Facebook utilized to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for charity (and to potentially raise $1 million to fight cancer). But now we’ve learned of another use of social media for social good, and it does not involve raising money for charity. This morning, the Give Work iPhone app (iTunes Link) became available in the app store. Read more ...
Two San Francisco-based startups — Samasource and CrowdFlower — today released a free iPhone application in the iTunes App Store called Give Work that lets you spend a few seconds of your time helping Kenyan refugees earn money, and in turn, improve their quality of life. Read more ...
October 13, 2009
Crowdsourcing Startup Turns To An iPhone App To Boost Refugee Wages
Joe Tartakoff, mocoNews
For several months now, some 200 Kenyan refugees in the Dadaab camps have been helping foreign companies with a range of repetitive online tasks. But sometimes the quality of the work can suffer in part because of translation. “They speak English, but might not know slang,” says Lukas Biewald, who is CEO of CrowdFlower, a San Francisco-based crowdsourcing startup that recruits thousands of people to complete repetitive tasks for big companies and is overseeing the work. CrowdFlower is hoping a new iPhone app will address that issue. Read more ...
The iPhone is a pretty good way to kill short bursts of idle time — for example, I picked up an addiction to Apple’s Poker game after I started playing a couple times a day while I waited for buses. Now there’s an app called Give Work that lets you fill that time by helping refugees in Kenya, developed by startups CrowdFlower and Samasource. Read more ...
Samasource is a company that utilizes the Internet to bring job opportunities to marginalized individuals, including refugees. Its new Refugee Work Program, created in conjunction with CrowdFlower, aims to bring these opportunities to people through its new iPhone application. The new iPhone app is called Give Work, and it leverages its crowdsourcing technology to connect users with refugees in search of a job. Give Work is designed specifically for refugees at one of the world’s largest refugee sites, at the Dadaab, Kenya data center. Read more ...
October 13, 2009
Mechanical Turk app on the iPhone Provides Work for Refugees
Ben Lorica, O’Reilly Radar
Mechanical Turk service provider CrowdFlower and microwork non-profit Samasource have teamed up to make their services available to iPhone users. Users of CrowdFlower's mechanical turk platform can now opt to send their tasks to iPhone users. Previously, CrowdFlower users could choose between Amazon mechanical turks or CrowdFlower's stable of turks. The Give Work iPhone app takes tasks (created by real companies) and sends it to iPhone users who volunteer to complete them. Read more ...
A new free iPhone application, Give Work, released today lets iPhone users use their phones to provide work to refugees in Africa. The project, a collaboration of Samasource and Crowdflower, lets you support refugees working in a datacenter in Dadaab, Kenya — the world’s largest refugee site — through "micro-donations" of time, time, not money. Read more ...
The nonprofit organization demoed a Facebook App that allows application developers to outsource their quality testing to at-risk individuals in countries like Kenya, Cameroon and Ghana. Meanwhile, CrowdFlower is best known as a cloud-based work platform where companies offer Mechanical Turk-style jobs to online laborers. The company launched at this year's TechCrunch 50 event and describes itself as a "labor as a service" provider. Read more ...
Workers stuck in the world's largest refugee camp are being given a chance to wield a mouse and keyboard as tools for digging their way out of poverty, and in the process, are helping out a series of small American companies looking to be more profitable. Read more ...
San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) October 13, 2009 -- Samasource and CrowdFlower today announced the new Give Work iPhone application. iPhone users with a penchant for doing good can now use their phones to support refugees working in a Dadaab, Kenya datacenter - at the world's largest refugee site - by donating their time, not money. Read more ...
