{"id":2662,"date":"2009-09-28T10:45:50","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T18:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/?p=2662"},"modified":"2009-09-28T11:23:10","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T19:23:10","slug":"kiva-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/2009\/09\/28\/kiva-org\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiva.org"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like Bev, I am not exactly clear on how to present this alternative model. Having viewed many pitches in Mod 2 unlike the Dragon&#8217;s Den approach, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiva.org\" target=\"_blank\">kiva.org <\/a>is\u00a0a site that connects enrepreneurs in the developing world with personal lenders in the microcredit manner.\u00a0 Many of the entrepreneurs are from Tier 4 (and Tier 3?) of the pyramid. A new analytical model that appeared relevant from Prahalad and Harts article was the vetting of business proposals.\u00a0 The Grameen Banks acceptance of community based evaluation of loan applications by 5 non family is sound. It saves Grameen the expensive legal, logistical HR hassles and promotes the lender in the community while serving a very real need. In Tier 4, the Cube face related to Market Focus may need to include &#8220;community ed&#8221; that does not entail traditional K-12 etc. For these typically rural communities, the educational focus could be public health or agricultural information . &#8220;Who is the Buyer&#8221; -in addtion to NGOs and Governenets, this may include microcredit lenders who see value in education as well as the individual. Tier 4 would fall on the &#8220;Market Does Not Support Elearning&#8221;\u00a0 face but perhaps this could be further subdivided.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laptop.org\" target=\"_blank\">OLPC <\/a>\u00a0program takes advantage of cell phone communication networks providing \u00a0connectivity in previously isolated areas. Perhaps &#8220;Wireless&#8221; &#8220;With out Wireless&#8221; may be reasonable?<\/p>\n<p>Jim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like Bev, I am not exactly clear on how to present this alternative model. Having viewed many pitches in Mod 2 unlike the Dragon&#8217;s Den approach, kiva.org is\u00a0a site that connects enrepreneurs in the developing world with personal lenders in the microcredit manner.\u00a0 Many of the entrepreneurs are from Tier 4 (and Tier 3?) of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":890,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mod03the-global-learning-technologies-marketplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/890"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2662"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2688,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions\/2688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}