Samasource Information Session
samasource.org
Date: Monday, Nov 21, 2011
Time: 5:30pm – 7:30pm
Location: UW Career Center (LOBBY) 134 Mary Gates, Seattle Campus
Speaker: Martin Anderson, VP of Engineering
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 .