Comments on: Ugandan microfinance on PBS

By: Vivek

Vivek — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 22:24:35 +0000

Microfinance is a myth. If you really want to present a viable solution to eradicating poverty look into the work of Dr. Abraham George. Below is a link to one of his articles published by Wharton Business School.

http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/india/article.cfm?articleid=4114&specialid=1&CFID=1824805&CFTOKEN=37907590

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 06:22:54 +0000

Hi Ethan,

Thank you for your post on Kiva. We are completely humbled by the response generated by the Frontline documentary. By writing about it, you’ve provided your readers with a unique way of getting connected to something worthwhile, in a practical manner. Please encourage your readers to keep trying to get through; there are over 300 businesses waiting to be partnered with. Thanks for caring!

Regards,

Tim (volunteer with Kiva.org)

By: Ethan

Ethan — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 15:01:01 +0000

Thanks, BRE – glad I’ll be able to catch it once it makes it to the Internet (I didn’t drive home fast enough to see the program on the TV.)

Tivo is the most popular of the commercial digital video recorders for sale in the US – it’s sufficiently popular here that “tivo” has become a verb, which basically means “program your digital video recorder to record something in your absence…”

By: Black River Eagle

Black River Eagle — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 12:43:05 +0000

Excellent find Ethan and it fits in nicely with the recent attention given to Dr. Muhammed Yunus and the Grameen Bank’s work in microfinance. Fortunately for those of us who do not live in North America, PBS Frontline and Wide Angle program video features are generally made available for viewing on their website. PBS Frontline states that this feature will be accessable via for the Net on November 7, 2006.

What’s TIVO?

By: Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » Honduras, Uganda: Kiva Microfinancing

Tue, 31 Oct 2006 19:57:36 +0000

[...] Global Voices readers are surely dedicated to staying informed about the rest of the world. But the Internet can also enable us to make positive change. “La Gringa” describes how Kiva lets internet users invest in microcrediting loans around the world. Just two days after writing about Honduran loan applicants in waiting, their loans were met and two other bloggers were inspired to pitch in and spread the word. “La Gringa” writes, “all of the requested Kiva loans that I wrote about on October 25 have been funded. Did Matthew, a Canadian teacher in Honduras, Ruthy, a Honduran-American in Missouri, and I have anything to do with this or is it a coincidence? I’d like to think we have made a difference!” Kiva has also received attention at WorldChanging, The New Yorker, and on Ethan Zuckerman’s blog. A Frontline/World story by Clark Boyd about Kiva will begin airing on PBS stations in the US tonight. David Sasaki [...]