babajob.com: bridging the digital divide for jobs in India

Hey, craigslist helps lots of people who have access to the Net. However, there are lots of people around the world whose only connectivity is a friend with a phone with texting. These guys have a new model, with some traction already:

Babajob.com seeks to help people escape poverty by connecting employers to informal sector employees - such as maids, cooks and janitors - through people they know. Uniquely, when an employer hires someone on babajob.com, babajob compensates whomever digitally registered the job seeker and up to 2 people that connect the employee to the employer. The Bangalore-based company has garnered approximately 8000 users since its August 2007 launch and was profiled in a lengthy New York Times piece as a significant innovation that “seeks to bring the social-networking revolution to the world’s
poor”

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[anoop]

hi babajobs really done a great job. Its a great innovation, just like craigslist

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