Digital Entrepreneurial Charity and Solidarity for Social Change: KIVA and the “Social-on-Linezation” of Poverty

Digital Entrepreneurial Charity and Solidarity for Social Change: KIVA and the “Social-on-Linezation” of Poverty

José Manuel Saiz-Alvarez, Jorge Colvin-Díez
Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 21
ISBN13: 9781522509530|ISBN10: 1522509534|EISBN13: 9781522509547
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0953-0.ch009
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Saiz-Alvarez, José Manuel, and Jorge Colvin-Díez. "Digital Entrepreneurial Charity and Solidarity for Social Change: KIVA and the “Social-on-Linezation” of Poverty." Digital Entrepreneurship and Global Innovation, edited by Ioan Hosu and Ioana Iancu, IGI Global, 2017, pp. 172-192. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0953-0.ch009

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Saiz-Alvarez, J. M. & Colvin-Díez, J. (2017). Digital Entrepreneurial Charity and Solidarity for Social Change: KIVA and the “Social-on-Linezation” of Poverty. In I. Hosu & I. Iancu (Eds.), Digital Entrepreneurship and Global Innovation (pp. 172-192). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0953-0.ch009

Chicago

Saiz-Alvarez, José Manuel, and Jorge Colvin-Díez. "Digital Entrepreneurial Charity and Solidarity for Social Change: KIVA and the “Social-on-Linezation” of Poverty." In Digital Entrepreneurship and Global Innovation, edited by Ioan Hosu and Ioana Iancu, 172-192. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0953-0.ch009

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Abstract

Microcredit has been studied from many perspectives. In this chapter, we analyze KIVA, the most important Person-to-Person microfinance organization from the perspective of social change, and we study how it has impacted on the nascent of a new wave of entrepreneurs known as digital entrepreneurial charity. Applied to KIVA, we analyze the impact of the digital space and its Internet-based Peer-to-Peer Lending to create social change in the poor, while alleviating the poverty thanks to solidarity and charity. This work concludes affirming that banking the poor and education, with the intensive use of Internet-based devices, is the best way to alleviate poverty in our digital and globalized economic world.

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