Thank you Kiva – a letter from Kiva’s Co-Founder and CEO(blog.kiva.org) |
Thank you Kiva – a letter from Kiva’s Co-Founder and CEO(blog.kiva.org) |
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).