Financial Power To The People
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Session Description
Web 2.0 entrepreneurs are shifting power dynamics from institutions (governments and NGOs) to end-users (donors and aid recipients) by creating new online marketplaces. These three social entrepreneurs are having a positive impact on development goals but each follows a different business model: online microlending for Kiva, online giving for GlobalGiving, and online investing for MyC4. Join them in the conversation.
Time & Location
Time:
14:00 - 15:30, Thursday, March 26, 2009
BST
Speakers
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Managing Partner, CauseWired Communications
Tom Watson is the author of CauseWired: Plugging In, Getting Involved, Changing the World (Wiley, 2008), the story of the rise of online social activism, and managing partner of CauseWired Communications LLC. Mr. Watson is the co-founder and publisher of
onPhilanthropy.com, a global resource for…
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President, GlobalGiving
Mari Kuraishi co-founded GlobalGiving in 2000. She is the President of GlobalGiving, an online marketplace that connects people to the causes they care most about. Donors select the locally run projects they want to fund, helping to make lasting change throughout
the world. She joined the World Bank…
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Co-Founder & President,
Kiva
Premal helps lead Kiva.org —a crowdfunding website that connects people through lending to alleviate poverty. Since 2005, over $1B in philanthropic loans has been crowdfunded to millions of underserved entrepreneurs in 90 countries — with a 96% repayment rate. The site has been named as one…
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CEO and Co-Founder, MYC4 A/S
Mads Kjaer, Co-Founder and CEO of MYC4 started MYC4 in 2005 together with Tim Vang. MYC4 is a web 2.0 marketplace and a tool for people to end poverty through business. Prior to this, Mads has been working in Kjaer Group A/S since 1984 for the last 20 years as CEO and from August 2006 as…