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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Okello leads a large team of workers who click millions of times, around the clock and on a piecework basis: The processes have to be run until the car knows the traffic rules and the drone knows which apples are ripe.

Large corporations seeking cheap labor have turned to East African countries such as Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda English is widely spoken, the internet is stable and the time difference to Europe is minimal.

The situation is acute in the north of the country where a bloody civil war had raged for more than 20 years and numerous aid organizations withdrew.

Sama's first office was housed in containers next to the university campus in Gulu, the largest city in the northern Uganda, Bruno Kayiza recalls.

He spent four years at Sama teaching robots how to pick only ripe apples before becoming a team leader who monitored the quality of his colleagues' work.

A few months ago, DW spoke to dismissed employees of Sama who were traumatized by their work of flagging depictions of violence on Facebook.


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