{"title":"Mobile phone job services: Linking developing-country youth with employers, via SMS","authors":"Amber Houssian, M. Kilany, Jacob Korenblum","doi":"10.1109/ICTD.2009.5426734","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"With its low cost and high penetration rates, mobile technology is uniquely poised to address developing-country labor market inefficiencies, by boosting young job-seekers access to employment information. Simple services like the SMS-based “job matching” application developed by Palestinian-Canadian NGO Souktel have transformed local labor markets--by giving young job-seekers real-time information about local jobs, and connecting them directly with employers.","PeriodicalId":180007,"journal":{"name":"2009 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2009-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"6","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2009 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTD.2009.5426734","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
With its low cost and high penetration rates, mobile technology is uniquely poised to address developing-country labor market inefficiencies, by boosting young job-seekers access to employment information. Simple services like the SMS-based “job matching” application developed by Palestinian-Canadian NGO Souktel have transformed local labor markets--by giving young job-seekers real-time information about local jobs, and connecting them directly with employers.