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The gift that keeps on giving

I got a nice present for Christmas from Chris (http://magnon.wordpress.com/). It's a certificate which gives me some money I can loan out to entrepreneurs around the world, through

  http://www.kiva.org

I was daydreaming about something similar maybe half a year or year ago. I remember playing a lot of Sim City in my younger days, and the fun of that was building things and seeing what works.

I'd like to see something similar for developing countries; the ability to participate in some project somewhere, where you get frequent updates where you can see the results of your ideas, investments and things like that.

Might be helping modernize a town, might be something else. Total transparency would be needed of course.

[Permalink] [By morphex] [Business (Atom feed)] [24 Dec 02:13 Europe/Oslo]