Archive for July, 2007
Phew… OLPC and Intel Get Back Together
Intel announced on Friday that they would be getting back together with One Laptop Per Child (OLPC). The OLPC project has big plans of equipping children in developing nations with $100 laptops, which I covered here.
This is in sharp contrast to March 2007 when Nicholas Negroponte OLPC’s founder pointedly attacked Intel on 60 Minutes for [...]
The Big Picture With The Under $2 a Day Crowd
I think we are going to start seeing more and more companies seeing the big picture in regards to low-income users in developing nations. How? Technology.
I’m starting to see more and more examples of this where technology allows companies to offer services to severely low-income users on slim profit margins. For instance, the mobile banking [...]
The Perfect Kiva Model, Direct-to-Entrepreneur Loans via Cell Phones
Matthew Flannery, Kiva’s founder and CEO, had an excellent post yesterday about why they don’t offer disintermediated loans like Prosper.com and the UK’s Ropa.
Disintermediated loans meaning loans that don’t need third party involvement like Kiva’s MFI partners. He also mentions in the post that in the future they would like to offer disintermediated loans directly [...]
