THE very poorest people on the planet have benefited little from the digital economy, but a pilot project in African refugee camps has hinted at how that might change. Refugees at the camps in Kenya have been able to dramatically increase their income by tapping into a global demand for unskilled digital labour.
The project uses , 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 , the San Francisco-based charity…
