oDesk is a service you can use to hire people

I started to think about Microworks (Mikroduuni) a few weeks after the innovationtrain trip from Helsinki to Oulu returned back. It took place January 13, 2010 and I arrived to Sotkamo one day later.

The microworks idea was moving ahead about a month later with a group of enthusiasts at Sitra talking about what could be accomplished through open innovation and collaboration.

Then we took a break for a several weeks. Some new discussions were taking place but we still had a lot of planning ahead. Financing of a new venture was completely open. Today, I learned about oDesk and even though it’s different, there are a number of ideas that are comparable.

The new way to work: odesk is a service you can use to hire people. Or get a job. But not a job like your dad had. Here you get a job based on either time, project, or maybe a longer-term contract. And you can work anywhere in the world because the odesk system lets you collaborate with your new boss and he can watch your work as it progresses. Did we mention you get paid?

And they now offer benefits? Crazy and here we talk with odesk's CEO to find out what's changing in the world of work.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=odesk&...

Microcredit

The developers of Microcredit are going to get the Nobel Peace Price of 2006. The two men have developed this model in Bangladesh. It's an ever more important instrument for the struggle against powerty.

• Muhammad Yunuses long term vision is to remove powerty from the world
• Grameen Bank

Women in particular have been a target group for Microcredits. The Finnis ex-president Ahtisaari was one of the potential Nobel price winners.

PROFESSOR MUHAMMAD YUNUS

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As founder of the Grameen Movement, Professor Muhammad Yunus is a revolutionary. His ideas couple capitalism with social responsibility and have changed the face of rural economic and social development forever.

Professor Yunus is responsible for many innovative programs benefiting the rural poor. In 1974, he pioneered the idea of Gram Sarker (village government) as a form of local government based on the participation of rural people. This concept proved successful and was adopted by the Bangladeshi government in 1980. In 1978, he received the President's award for Tebhaga Khamar (a system of cooperative three-share farming, which the Bangladeshi government adopted as the Packaged Input Program in 1977).

A Fulbright Scholar at Vanderbilt University, Professor Yunus received his Ph.D. in Economics in 1969. Later that year, he became an assistant professor of Economics at Middle Tennessee State University, before returning to Bangladesh where he joined the Economics Department at Chittagong University.