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Digital Entrepreneurial Charity, Solidarity, and Social Change

Digital Entrepreneurial Charity, Solidarity, and Social Change

José Manuel Saiz-Alvarez, Jorge Colvin-Díez, Jorge Hernando Cuñado
Copyright: © 2017 |Volume: 7 |Issue: 1 |Pages: 20
ISSN: 1947-8585|EISSN: 1947-8593|EISBN13: 9781522512912|DOI: 10.4018/IJEEI.2017010103
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Saiz-Alvarez, José Manuel, et al. "Digital Entrepreneurial Charity, Solidarity, and Social Change." IJEEI vol.7, no.1 2017: pp.29-48. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJEEI.2017010103

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Saiz-Alvarez, J. M., Colvin-Díez, J., & Cuñado, J. H. (2017). Digital Entrepreneurial Charity, Solidarity, and Social Change. International Journal of E-Entrepreneurship and Innovation (IJEEI), 7(1), 29-48. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJEEI.2017010103

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Saiz-Alvarez, José Manuel, Jorge Colvin-Díez, and Jorge Hernando Cuñado. "Digital Entrepreneurial Charity, Solidarity, and Social Change," International Journal of E-Entrepreneurship and Innovation (IJEEI) 7, no.1: 29-48. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJEEI.2017010103

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Abstract

Microcredit has been studied from many perspectives. In this work, the authors analyze KIVA, the most important Person-to-Person microfinance organization from the viewpoint of social change, and they consider how it has impacted on the nascent of a new wave of entrepreneurs known as digital entrepreneurial charity. Applied to KIVA, the authors 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 the digital and globalized economic world. Finally, after their last research, the authors found some critics about Kiva and microcredits which might be interesting to be considered and these have been analyzed at the end of this work.

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