Episode 10 of the AshokaTECH Podcast: Founder & CEO of Samasource, Leila Janah
First of all, a huge thank you to all of our listeners for helping us reach our 10th episode! We’ve now hit double digits, and there’s no looking back! Thanks to all of you for your questions, feedback and for engaging with the podcast. As always if you have comments, questions or suggestions for someone you’d like to see interviewed, be sure to get in touch!
This week’s episode of the AshokaTECH Podcast features an interview with the founder of Samasource, Leila Janah.
Samasource enables marginalized people, from refugees in Kenya to women in rural Pakistan, to receive life-changing work opportunities via the Internet. The core of this concept is microwork — little bits of labor that can be performed anytime and anywhere — which provides dignified work opportunities and a chance to learn tech-skills. In parallel, Samasource enables socially responsible companies, small businesses, nonprofits, and entrepreneurs in the US to contribute to economic development by buying services from their workforce at fair prices.
Together, we discuss trends in ICT in the developing world, theories of microwork, and what the story of a Facebook friend request from a man in a refugee camp tells us about the future of our interconnected world.
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