Samasource is a social enterprise based in San Francisco
that connects people living in poverty to dignified work via the
Internet.
We created a technology platform that distributes microwork to
centers around the world. Microwork is a new way to fight poverty by
enabling capable, marginalized people to complete digital tasks in some
of the world’s poorest places.
Our model provides direct income to
thousands of people at a fraction of the cost of traditional aid
programs and equips them with skills to succeed in the new economy.
We’re looking for students and graduates interested in joining our
engineering associate program. The associate program starts with a
10-week stipend internship period where a candidate will be introduced
to our platform and pair with a senior engineer to build and deploy new
features. Upon successfully completing the internship, the software
engineer will gain increased responsibility over feature specification
and implementation, helping us grow our platform and develop innovative
solutions to ICTD problems like these:
- Distributed, collaborative education and training
- Remote, rural content delivery over high latency networks
- Intelligent, automated task allocation and adaptive workflow
- Mobile payments and messaging
We are a small, growing, dynamic team committed to changing
the world with an innovative business model. To get a quick overview of
what we do, watch this 50 second video on YouTube of two of our
workers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96bSBNRCSoQ.