In The Media

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

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.

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

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?

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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