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| Founded | 2008 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Leila Janah |
| Type | Private |
| Location | |
Key people | Wendy Gonzalez (CEO)[1] |
| Website | sama |
Formerly called | Sama, Samasource (2008–2021) |
Samasource Impact Sourcing, Inc., also known as Samasource and Sama, is a training-data company, focusing on annotating data for artificial intelligence algorithms.[2][3][4] The company offers image, video, and sensor data annotation and validation for machine learning algorithms in industries including automotive, navigation, augmented reality, virtual reality, biotechnology, agriculture, manufacturing, and e-commerce.[1][5] One of the first organizations to engage in impact sourcing,[6] Sama trains workers in basic computer skills.
Sama is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with additional offices in Montreal and San Jose, Costa Rica. The organization owns and operates delivery centers in Nairobi, Kenya, Kampala, Uganda and Gulu, Uganda, and partners with additional delivery centers in India. Sama previously employed workers via partner delivery centers in Haiti, Pakistan, Ghana, and South Africa.[7]
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- ^ "Bay Area profit-purpose company Samasource rebrands a year after founder's death". Montreal in Technology. 25 January 2021. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
- ^ Stengel, Geri (January 20, 2021). "How A Purpose-Driven Startup Managed The Death Of Its Founder, Funding, And The Pandemic". Forbes. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
- ^ Cookson, Peter W; Iscol, Jill. Hearts on Fire (2011). New York: Random House. 2011. pp60. ISBN 0812984307
- ^ "Why Big Tech pays poor Kenyans to teach self-driving cars". BBC News. 3 November 2018. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
- ^ Bornstein, David (November 3, 2011). Workers of the World Employed. New York Times. Retrieved 2013-04-04.
- ^ Samasource Press Kit Archived 2016-08-17 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2013-04-04.