Crowdsourcing and USSD

Do you know of crowdsourcing? Did you follow the link? Now you know. In simple words: it’s when you outsource some tedious task which requires a lot of manual labor to countries which have a lot of it.

And what a great idea to use this concept with USSD! Nathan Eagle from MIT wants to make it happen.

His idea is to employ USSD to have people in East Africa do manual tasks like translations for Nokia into local languages and medical transcriptions. See a list of possible tasks.

It would be such a noble thing to help Africa which clearly needs help:

and to apply the easiest and the cheapest mobile technology! I simply love that initiative. Hope it takes off.