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The outsourcing industry doesn’t have a great name, people fear that it’s destroying jobs in Europe and America. The jobs are not destroyed because of cheap labour in India but because western companies failed to become more efficient and effective. And the outsourcing industry probably did more for the emancipation of women in India than all demonstrations for equal rights combined. Because millions of young women have a well paying job and can support themselves easily. 

Leila Janah promotes outsourcing as an way to eradicate poverty in East Africa and other places. They just got an investment from Google and more and more technology companies are outsourcing work that computers can’t do to bright workers in places like Kenya: 

• High-quality image captioning
• Content writing and editing
• Product cataloguing
• Database enhancement and verification
• Web-based research
• We also offer custom enterprise solutions:
• High-volume book, document and receipt digitization
• Audio and video transcription
• OCR correction

Her philosophy: “Handouts are not going to end global poverty, but work - real work - just might”

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(Source: poptech.org)