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However, with unemployment levels rising to almost fifty percent in countries such as Kenya, there are still hundreds of millions of mobile phone subscribers who are unable to find consistent work. Given high rates of unemployment and marginal income sources, many of the more than 2 billion mobile phone subscribers currently living in the developing world would greatly benefit from even an extra dollar per day. Amazon’s Mechanical Turk has successfully introduced “human intelligence tasks” that can be completed by individuals with a personal computer connected to the internet for small amounts of money. We apply the same principle to “txteagle”, a mobile phone-based system that untethers these tasks from the PC and offers them to the world’s billions of mobile phone users - providing an additional source of supplementary income to rural and low income populations.