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Fresh out of Harvard in 2005, Leila Janah landed a job a... consultant. One of her first assignments took her to Mum... traveled by auto-rickshaw to a sleek outsourcing center ...
“There aren’t any unions for online workers. They ha ...
Janah, 32,

The Woman Finding Tech Jobs for the World's Poorest People | WIRED
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Fresh out of Harvard in 2005, Leila Janah landed a job as a management consultant. One of her first assignments took her to Mumbai, where she traveled by auto-rickshaw to a sleek outsourcing center staffed by well-educated Indians from middle-class families. The ride took her past one of Asia’s largest slums, Dharavi, where cholera outbreaks are commonplace and children die of preventable diseases. Outsourcing might have been providing millions of jobs, but it wasn’t helping the country’s poorest. She began to think, “Couldn’t the people from the slums do some of this work?”

“There aren’t any unions for online workers. They haven’t had time to organize. But that could happen.”

Janah, 32, turned that idea into a nonprofit that connects poor people to low-level tech work.

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<p><span class="lede"><span tabindex="-1" class="lede">Fresh out of </span>Harvard </span> in 2005, Leila Janah landed a job as a management consultant. One of her first assignments took her to Mumbai, where she traveled by auto-rickshaw to a sleek outsourcing center staffed by well-educated Indians from middle-class families. The ride took her past one of Asia&#x2019;s largest slums, Dharavi, where cholera outbreaks are commonplace and children die of preventable diseases. Outsourcing might have been providing millions of jobs, but it wasn&#x2019;t helping the country&#x2019;s poorest. She began to think, &#x201c;Couldn&#x2019;t the people from the slums do some of this work?&#x201d;</p> <p class="pullquote">&#x201c;There aren&#x2019;t any unions for online workers. They haven&#x2019;t had time to organize. But that could happen.&#x201d;</p> <p>Janah, 32, turned that idea into a nonprofit that connects poor people to low-level tech work. </p>