Submission + - Poverty meets Social Networking in India
entropiccanuck writes: The NY Times has an article titled "In India, Poverty Inspires Technology Workers to Altruism", which is about new sites that bring the "social-networking revolution popularized by Facebook and MySpace to people who do not even have computers — the world's poor." Sean Blagsvedt, the founder of one such site, babajob.com, says "In India, you can't escape the feeling that you're really lucky. So you ask, What are you going to do about all the stuff around you? How are you going to use all these skills?"
Blagsvedt's site works as a "village LinkedIn" by replicating "online the process by which Indians hire in real life: through chains of personal connections." One of the more significant hurdles in building such a site is in making it accessible to those who have limited computer access.
Blagsvedt's site works as a "village LinkedIn" by replicating "online the process by which Indians hire in real life: through chains of personal connections." One of the more significant hurdles in building such a site is in making it accessible to those who have limited computer access.
