Dataset of the Day: Kiva and Global Poverty
June 19th, 2009by Bill Greer
For anyone who hasn’t heard about Kiva, Kiva’s mission is to connect people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty. They have developed a system of micro-lending, allowing anyone to lend small amounts of money to people in need, the money is paid back, and everyone is happy. Its truely a great idea to help those in need, i was curious about trying to highlight or quantify whether or not Kiva was working in the right direction and getting money to those in need so i created this quick little mashup of the featured entrepreneurs from Kiva and Global Poverty Data from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). I hope both Kiva and the UNDP continue their good work!
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June 21st, 2009 at 7:17 am
New item (csharpgeneral): problem updating dataset http://bit.ly/ZMAbr