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(Free-Press-Release.com) July 22, 2009 -- Leila Chirayath Janah , founder and CEO of Samasource, a California-based non-profit that partners with small, talented, tech companies in poor and rural communities to find them clients, will be a special guest on the Friday morning (9 AM PDT / 12 Noon EDT) edition of Hugh Macken, Live! at BlogTalkRadio.com/Hugh.

Samasource (www.samasource.com) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that partners with small, talented, tech companies in poor and rural communities to find them clients. Samasource partners must meet stringent criteria, and they specialize in services ranging from data entry to advanced software and website development

This special program will feature Samasource Founder and CEO Leila Chirayath Janah , who first developed the idea behind Samasource

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while working as a management consultant at Katzenbach Partners, where her clients included global leaders in the outsourcing and telecom sectors.

Chirayath is a Visiting Scholar at the Stanford Program on Global Justice and has a B.A. in African Development Studies from Harvard University . She blogs at leilac.com and at Social Edge.

Also featured will be projectdiaspora.org co-founder TMS Ruge . He is currently working with several indigenous farmer organizations in Uganda to help them move from subsistence farming to large-scale commercial farming. Mr Ruge blogs frequently about the African ICT sectors and it’s effects on development. He has also served on several panel discussions related to Africa and Africa’s emerging technology space. He

received a Communication Design degree from the University of North Texas.

Mr Ruge is a Ugandan record-holder in the decathlon and pole vault and, formerly, the high jump. He was also a one-time Ugandan Olympic hopeful in the decathlon. Born in Masindi, Uganda to a Sudanese father and a Ugandan mother, he grew up in Uganda, Kenya and Dallas, TX.

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"People here complete a university education with honors, and they have to return to the village where they grew up to become farmers since there are no technology jobs. Samasource can help change that." - Peter Kimwele, Business degree candidate, Kenya