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 created a platform that connects job-seekers with jobs. The revolutionary part? It works nearly anywhere and on any phone.
MoreApps, 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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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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In emerging markets, Souktel is one of five leading mobile service providers–delivering life-changing information to communities on their phones.
MoreIn 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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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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GSMA workshop in Kigali discusses the Akazi Kanoze Youth Livelihood Program and the Souktel-developed mobile employment solutions.
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JWT Intelligence features Souktel JobMatch as one of “100 Things to Watch in 2014”.
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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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As the turmoil escalates in Syria, a growing number of refugees are fleeing the nation in search of safety.
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Forbes features Palestine-based Souktel as one start-up reshaping the Middle East with its JobMatch and AidLink programs.
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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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Companies can help break down the barriers preventing girls from accessing technology through training, mentoring and jobs.
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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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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 partners with GSMA to develop a first-ever Code of Conduct for Mobile & Crisis Response
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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, 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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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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The smiling receptionist indicates that I should take a seat, so I settle into one of the lobby’s leather chairs.
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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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When the 2010 Haiti earthquake struck, text messages sent by trapped survivors became crucial catalysts for aid delivery.
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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, an organization that designs and delivers mobil
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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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In recent months residents of Somalia have struggled with a devastating drought on top of decades of armed conflict.
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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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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’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 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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Underneath the political and economic discontent in the Mideast right now is also profound social unrest.
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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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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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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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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 is using cellphones to deliver crucial commucations.
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Due to continued political unrest and religious turmoil, the Palestinian-controlled territories are in the news regularly.
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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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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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