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Posted by Marne Cales on Oct 13, 2009 at 10:11 pm | View Comments • Digg storyFiled Under: iPhone
You know that you can use your iPhone to play entertaining games, take amazing photos, compose original music, and keep track of your finances. Now you can use your phone to help a refugee develop job skills that will help them earn a living and improve their quality of life.
CrowdFlower, a San Francisco-based company that offers crowd sourcing services, has teamed up with Samasource, a non-profit organization working to bring online jobs to refugees in Kenya and other poverty-stricken people around the world. Together they have created an app called Give Work. It’s a simple but brilliant idea. A company hires CrowdFlower to complete an online task, such as gathering email addresses for financial aid offices at a large number of universities, or selecting photographs for a wedding album from the photographers proofs. Samasource assigns the task to a worker, and the task is also sent to the Give Work app. You select the task from the list in Give Work and complete it as well, and the refugee’ work is checked against it. They are then given further training and work based on the results of this cross-checking. They learn and improve their skills, and you get to help.
This kind of innovation is what makes me love technology. For a few minutes a day, I can complete some simple tasks and make a difference in the life of someone on the other side of the world. How cool is that? Give Work is free in the app store.
Here’s a video of a couple of the refugees benefiting from online jobs and training from Samasource:
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I DL the app but the task need some work the process is a bit rough and it has bugs I’ll give it another go later but at first attempt seems to be very hastle some to use.
Thanks for the comment Athoes, I downloaded it too. The first time I used it, the tasks worked well, but later it was a little bug-gy and the tasks were really slow. I hope they plan to update so it will run smoother.