Give Work iPhone app is designed to provide Kenyan refugees with jobs

Again we have a great example of beneficial use of mobile technology. The application is called Give Work and it’s a joint effort of Samasource, an NGO working to provide Internet-based jobs for poor people around the world, and CrowdFlower, a San Francisco-based company that provides accessible outsourced labor as an online service. The two parties teamed up with the goal to help refugees in Dadaab, the largest refugee camp in the Kenya, to get Internet training and jobs.

Here’s how it works:

1. A U.S. company submits an online job to CrowdFlower.
2. The refugee at Samasource completes the task immediately.
3. An iPhone user in the U.S. voluntarily double checks the work.
4. The refugee worker is paid for their work.

And we have a success story to share to entice U.S. companies to go this route. Paul and Eric are two Samasource employees in Kenya whose lives have been improved using the system. The clip follows after the jump, whereas the AppStore link is here.

[Via: TheHuffingtonPost]