Tag Archives: social enterprise

P2P lending org Kiva’s background and future

October 8, 2007 – 3:36 pm

Excellent read for those interested in social entrepreneurship: Kiva co-founder Matt Flannery discusses the first three years of Kiva and the pioneering of the person-to-person lending field in an in-depth article from new MIT journal Innovations.
What makes this case study interesting is not just that it is penned by the entrepreneur himself, but that [...]

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Unintended consequences: donated mosquito net edition

September 24, 2007 – 1:00 am

Ethan Zuckerman points to a Zambian blogger claiming donated mosquito nets are used by fishermen for destructive drag-netting in rivers and streams. A bit of googling turns up similar stories in Namibia and Rwanda. I wonder if these are marginal cases or if the practice is truly widespread, and if people who pay for [...]

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