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Souktel in the Media || Tuesday, 05 September 2017

For Syrian refugees in need, the mobile legal info service launched by Souktel, in support of the American Bar Association, provides a lifeline. 

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Souktel in the Media || Wednesday, 14 September 2016

Souktel created a platform that connects job-seekers with jobs. The revolutionary part? It works nearly anywhere and on any phone. 

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Souktel in the Media || Friday, 22 July 2016

Apps, real-time translation services, and online tools—created by Souktel and others—are helping refugees in Turkey forge new lives for themselves.

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Souktel in the Media || Friday, 11 September 2015

Syrian refugees can now access free legal advice by text message after Souktel launched a service in Turkey, which it hopes to expand to reach refugees across Europe.

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Souktel in the Media || Friday, 11 September 2015
Souktel in the Media || Saturday, 25 April 2015

In emerging markets, Souktel is one of five leading mobile service providers–delivering life-changing information to communities on their phones.

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Souktel in the Media || Wednesday, 11 February 2015

In low-income countries, good information about personal budgeting and saving is hard to find. Many people have limited schooling and little familiarity with financial institutions.

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Souktel in the Media || Wednesday, 24 September 2014

The Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) cites Souktel’s job matching solution as a “best practice” in its report on youth employment challenges.

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Souktel in the Media || Friday, 07 February 2014

GSMA workshop in Kigali discusses the Akazi Kanoze Youth Livelihood Program and the Souktel-developed mobile employment solutions.

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Souktel in the Media || Sunday, 22 December 2013

JWT Intelligence features Souktel JobMatch as one of “100 Things to Watch in 2014”.

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Souktel in the Media || Friday, 13 December 2013

In a world where more people have access to a cell phone than a toilet, we have to ask: what are all those phones doing? And are they really making a difference?

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Souktel in the Media || Thursday, 12 September 2013

As the turmoil escalates in Syria, a growing number of refugees are fleeing the nation in search of safety.

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Souktel in the Media || Wednesday, 21 August 2013

Forbes features Palestine-based Souktel as one start-up reshaping the Middle East with its JobMatch and AidLink programs.

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Souktel in the Media || Thursday, 04 July 2013

Across the country, Libyans explain via text message their thoughts about the first free national vote in more than 40 years.

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Souktel in the Media || Wednesday, 19 June 2013

Companies can help break down the barriers preventing girls from accessing technology through training, mentoring and jobs.

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Souktel in the Media || Thursday, 02 May 2013

Aid workers see text messaging as a key tool in disaster communications – but what are the pitfalls and how can they be avoided?

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Souktel in the Media || Wednesday, 03 April 2013

DAI, Souktel and Morocco’s Ministry of Agriculture partner on a first-ever service to help farmers get real-time crop data.

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Souktel in the Media || Friday, 22 February 2013

Souktel partners with GSMA to develop a first-ever Code of Conduct for Mobile & Crisis Response

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Souktel in the Media || Thursday, 27 December 2012

If Sadara Ventures has anything to do with it, turmoil in the Middle East may be partly eased by for-profit technology ventures in 2013.

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Souktel in the Media || Wednesday, 19 December 2012

Souktel, one of the fastest growing startups in Palestine today, is set to enter a new era with a round of $1 million in investment from Palestine-based venture capital fund Sadara Ventures.

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Souktel in the Media || Tuesday, 18 December 2012

Beyond the bullets and bombs amid the conflict, a tech-oriented venture capital fund has been vetting start-ups being hatched in the nascent Ramallah IT sector.

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Souktel in the Media || Wednesday, 24 October 2012

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Souktel in the Media || Wednesday, 03 October 2012

Souktel, a start-up based in Ramallah on the West Bank, offers a Web-based employment application called JobMatch that blends high and low-tech job-matching serv

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Souktel in the Media || Friday, 16 March 2012

When the 2010 Haiti earthquake struck, text messages sent by trapped survivors became crucial catalysts for aid delivery.

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Souktel in the Media || Tuesday, 07 February 2012

A piece by David Weiss, president and CEO of CHF International, in which he mentions SoukTel as a partner for social responsibility initiatives in the Middle East.

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Souktel in the Media || Thursday, 02 February 2012

Souktel, an organization that designs and delivers mobil

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Souktel in the Media || Tuesday, 24 January 2012

Somalia Speaks is a collaboration between Souktel, an NGO providing SMS messaging services, Ushahidi, Al Jazeera, Crowdflower, and the African Diaspora Institute.

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Souktel in the Media || Sunday, 11 December 2011

In recent months residents of Somalia have struggled with a devastating drought on top of decades of armed conflict.

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Souktel in the Media || Thursday, 08 December 2011

The joint project combines the efforts of multiple partners including Al-Jazeera, Ushahidi, Souktel, Crowdflower, the African Diaspora Institute and the wider Somali Diaspora.

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Souktel in the Media || Wednesday, 16 November 2011

Somali youth are learning from the USAID sponsored soap opera Dab iyo Dahab that being good at math is not the same as knowing how to manage a household budget or run a business.

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Souktel in the Media || Friday, 09 September 2011

Souktel’s AidLink uses basic text messaging to help relief workers learn what’s happening and give out information on where people can find aid.

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Souktel in the Media || Thursday, 08 September 2011

Souktel is the Monster.com of Morocco, Somalia, and Palestine — and now it’s coming to jobseekers in Egypt, Jordan and Tunisia.

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Souktel in the Media || Wednesday, 23 February 2011

Underneath the political and economic discontent in the Mideast right now is also profound social unrest.

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Souktel in the Media || Friday, 28 January 2011

From January 9 to 15, 2011, Southern Sudan held a referendum to decide if the region should become an independent state.

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Souktel in the Media || Friday, 17 December 2010

Telecoms, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and nonprofits are pushing to put mobile phones directly in the hands of women in low- and middle-income countries.

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Souktel in the Media || Thursday, 02 December 2010

Full disclosure: Souktel is a mobile phone job service run by youth. As a result, we may lack the wisdom and experience of labor economists or CEOs.

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Souktel in the Media || Saturday, 10 April 2010

What if, globally speaking, the iPad is not the next big thing? What if the next big thing is small, cheap and not American?

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Souktel in the Media || Friday, 01 January 2010
Souktel in the Media || Friday, 01 January 2010
Souktel in the Media || Friday, 01 January 2010

Souktel is using cellphones to deliver crucial commucations.

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Souktel in the Media || Friday, 01 January 2010

Due to continued political unrest and religious turmoil, the Palestinian-controlled territories are in the news regularly.

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Souktel in the Media || Friday, 01 January 2010

A non-profit group in the occupied West Bank has started a scheme that uses mobile phone text messaging to help young Palestinians find work

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Souktel in the Media || Friday, 01 January 2010

A graduate from the Arab American University in Palestine with a major in computer information technology, Mohammed Zaid Al-Kilany cofounded Souktel, an organisation that seeks to improve people’s

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Souktel in the Media || Friday, 01 January 2010