Not-So-Secret Plan to Find (Tech) Jobs for the World's Poorest

摘要

Fresh out of Harvard 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?"