Microjobs in Africa

Txteagle is like Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk and ShortTask which are online marketplaces for short, uncomplicated tasks that users take up for a small payment. The difference between txteagle and the other examples is that the tasks are sent through text message - it's mobile crowdsourcing. It also means the nature of the jobs are smaller and simpler, like translation.

This idea makes this marketplace reachable for those in Africa especially, where a lot of people have mobile phones but not computers. It's great that they can turn mobile phones into an income source and it brings to life the opportunity cost of leaving a mobile phone idle.