On a dusty summer day in July 2009, I taught a young, impoverished refugee in Dadaab, Kenya, to earn money online. Paul Parach (pictured left, video below) had fled South Sudan at age seven and lived in the camp for fifteen years, suffering persistent shortages of everything from water to firewood while he struggled to learn English. In a small computer center, donated by the Danish Refugee Council and hooked up to a satellite dish, I showed Paul and 15 other refugees to use Google to search for phone numbers and paste them into a web form for a Silicon Valley client. Several months earlier, I had founded a non-profit called Samasource to connect people living in poverty to sources of work, via the Internet. In two years, we?ve employed over 900 people in Asia, Africa, and Haiti to do small tasks, or ?microwork,? for companies including Ask.com and Intuit. 
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