Technology Comes to Dadaab Refugee Camp

GlobeTracker| A pilot project in African refugee camps may demonstrate how the very poorest people can benefit from the digital economy.

The project for Somali refugees at the Dadaab camps in Kenya have dramatically increased their income using CrowdFlower, a website that allows companies to quickly outsource routine tasks such as transcription and image-tagging to online workers. “We can generate an incredible amount of social impact through this technology,” says Leila Chirayath Janah, founder of Samasource, the San Francisco-based charity behind the project. via New Scientist