I have been a frequent visitor to online freelancing marketplace in the west (US and Europe). Sites i have visited in the past include odesk, elance, freelancer e.t.c. And these web application do fill a gap in the west.

As a summary, these websites connects freelancers possessing desired skills and individual/organization that have small to medium term projects to be executed. These sites serve as escrow as well, the client would have to deposit payment for the projects and the money would only be release to workers on successful completion of the project. (These sites charges between 7% - 10% of any amount paid to freelancers)

I have done a very quick google search on these websites in Nigeria and i found a few sites with little or no activity on them. I would like to get some insights into these as i currently have a solution that i can customize and deploy to a production within a few weeks but it is important to understand the why it would work or why it wouldnt.

Thanks Afam. I hope more people will contribute to this topic.