BBC News has a story on a new scheme in Kenya allowing people to earn money by completing small tasks such as translation and transcriptions. This comes via the BBC World Service’s Digital Planet programme, which has a report on Txteagle – a start-up that is “empowering the largest knowledge workforce on Earth.”
Founder Nathan Eagle explains: “the total amount of idle time that literate, English-speaking mobile phone subscribers have within the developing world is estimated to be more than 250 million hours every day. [Companies] feel that texting tasks like simple translations to participants in developing countries is economical not only in a business sense but also provides participants with an additional source of income.”
Listen to Digital Planet or find out more on the txteagle site
