Ed writes:
The mission of DDD has expanded, and I thought you might like to know a little more about DDD.
Digital Divide Data (DDD) is an innovative, internationally acclaimed social enterprise that delivers high-quality data conversion services to global clients to create jobs for talented poor youth in developing countries. Our clients receive competitively priced, world-class data preservation and content conversion services. This business empowers our staff with the skills and experience they need to lift them selves out of poverty. When our business grows, so does our impact.
Our proven model develops a strong workforce in countries with untapped talent. With our scalable approach to growth, we now employ more than 700 people across our offices in Cambodia, Laos, and Kenya. We recruit motivated, disadvantaged youth who would not otherwise have access to skilled work or further education. We then train and employ them at a fair wage, while offering them scholarships to attend university. DDD alumni go on to high-skilled positions in which they earn more than four times the average regional wage.
Every client project directly contributes to the impact we have on our staff. Our mission makes DDD a more responsible and responsive partner to clients like Reader’s Digest, BrightSolid, Harvard University and the National Library Board of Singapore. Our model has been recognized by the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, the World Bank Development Marketplace, the Rockefeller Foundation and the United Nations Development Program, among others. DDD has been featured in the media including the BBC, CNN, and the New York Times. We are also the subject of a Harvard Business School Case Study and were profiled in Thomas Friedman’s New York Times bestseller, The World is Flat.
We feel privledged to be able to work with such a fine group with such a significant social mission.
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