Thank you Kiva – a letter from Kiva’s Co-Founder and CEO

http://blog.kiva.org/2014/06/18/thank-you-kiva-a-letter-from-kivas-co-founder-ceo-matt-flannery

by jalter456 • 12 years ago

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pork• 12 years ago

Note: this Kiva is not the San Francisco brand of medical cannabis chocolate confections.

Zombieball• 12 years ago

Second note: this Kiva is also not the company producing automated robots servicing select Amazon Fullfilment Centers

user24• 12 years ago

Though I've not used it myself, Kiva has always struck me as the sort of thing that people who were passionate about the web in the early days were always enthusiastically envisaging.

The web was seen as a powerful tool for taking advantage of the benefits of scale. Scale applied to charity & aid results in things like Kiva.

They just wouldn't be thinkable without the web.

There's no grand point to this comment, it's just a musing.

I guess I'm just saying that I think it's things like Kiva that make me proud to be part of the web.

Oh, and I suppose mixed up in my sentiment is a bit of lament that Kiva is a little-known exception to the rule rather than one among a great many examples of using the web to make the world a better place. (yes, wikipedia is another great example; I'm not saying Kiva's the sole bastion of human compassion on the web).

kackontent• 12 years ago

If we talk about Kiva it's always worth to revisit this article http://www.nextbillion.net/blogpost.aspx?blogid=3726 which asks some good questions about their model.

infoworm• 12 years ago

Also worth looking at Kiva's response to that article, though the editor of the piece you linked to many of Kiva's responses.

http://www.nextbillion.net/blogpost.aspx?blogid=3731

Thank you Kiva – a letter from Kiva’s Co-Founder and CEO

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