In 2005, Thomas Friedman asserted that the rise in cheap access to connectivity and hardware in developing countries was flattening the world. Outsourcing, he argued, was transforming poverty in countries like India, where over two million young people work in call centers or business process outsourcing firms (BPOs) completing work...

Over the last several weeks, I turned 30, got engaged to a great guy, and raised an investment round for Samasource, the nonprofit I founded four years ago. We have now moved over 3,200 people out of poverty through digital work and are expanding into the...

This week I turned 30.

While this milestone feels significant, I am concentrating on a different number. Today, 800 women will die from preventable causes related to childbirth. Many of these women are my age, some younger, some older, and many of them share the same dream: to...

Last week, B Corporation, a network of socially responsible "for-benefit" businesses, announced its plans to scale internationally at the Clinton Global Initiative. Many of these businesses are supported by impact investors, a group of double- and triple-bottom-line funders that received little attention until the Rockefeller Foundation launched a...

Jos Mattias is a 41-year-old woman who lives in the town of Bo in Sierra Leone in West Africa. She loves to cook and take care of children. Jos used to earn her income -- about $3 a day -- by working as a nanny for a family with two...

It's true: women and girls are hot. Double-Xers are finally making it to the top of the development agenda following the publication of Sheryl WuDunn and Nick Kristof's book Half the Sky (now a global movement), Sheryl Sandberg's iconic TED talk on women at work, and...

Samasource is building the world's first virtual assembly lines that pro-actively engages the poor.

I introduced the concept of a virtual assembly line in a talk at TEDx Silicon Valley last year -- I think it's the defining trend in labor in the next century. It's also one...

About a year ago, I met Dr. Paul Farmer at an IDEO talk on social enterprise, and began thinking about Samasource in Haiti.

Haitians live in a densely populated country (10 million people on an island smaller than Maryland), learn French and English at school, share a timezone with New...