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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:
- A U.S. company submits an online job to CrowdFlower.
- The refugee at Samasource completes the task immediately.
- An iPhone user in the U.S. voluntarily double checks the work.
- 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]
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Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
