Using Amazon MechanicalTurk if location != US?

Question

Amazon Mechanical Turk is a mass-micro outsourcing API, where you can get lots\'s of small simple tasks (e.g.\"Is there a shop in this image\") done relatively cheaply (e.g. 0.1

Answer 1

Since Amazon doesn't let outside US access yet, you'll need to either:

• Wait for Amazon to open it up to outside US, might be a long wait.
• Get a good friend in the US to open a PO Box for you then use an online US bank to create an account. If you don't start a corporation or other legal business, they will need to provide their US drivers license to Amazon too.
• Use a 3rd party provider like HIT-Builder who will let you post on Mechanical Turk using their US Amazon account.