At the same time, DDD's innovative social model enables talented youth from low-income families to access professional opportunities and earn lasting higher income.
Featured in Thomas L. Friedman's The World Is Flat as an example of socially responsible outsourcing, DDD's clients include Reader's Digest, Harvard Business School, New York Daily News, Ancestry.com, and Stanford University.
In February 2001, Jeremy Hockenstein (co-founder and CEO of DDD) travelled to Angkor Wat and was struck by the mix of poverty and progress in Cambodia.
[6] The innovative work/study program that is core to DDD's social enterprise enables young women and men from very poor families to gain work experience plus access to higher education.
[8] Jeremy Hockenstein, CEO* Jaeson Rosenfeld* Jan-Maarten Mulder Alex Jaimes Stefan Kappeler Kay Lot Anne Njuki Sameer Raina Divyata Ashiya Robert Shutlz Asterisk denotes co-founder of DDD [9]