Thursday, June 19, 2014
Using Outsourcing To Help Alleviate Poverty In Africa and South Asia
A small number of companies, nonprofits and foundations–-including The Rockefeller Foundation--want to see if the rapidly growing global supply chains that process data and operate call centers can be deployed to help alleviate poverty in Africa and South Asia.
“By responsibly and ethically employing hundreds of thousands of people, BPOs have a role to play in shifting the social landscape in emerging economies around the world,” says a report calledOutsourcing for Social Good from Telus International, a Canadian outsourcing firm, and Impakt, a social responsibility consultancy.
The Rockefeller Foundation has committed $100 million to a project called Digital Jobs Africa that aims to improve one million lives in six African nations...