February 26, 2009
Online Charity Asks Programmers for Help
Kiva uses the Internet to match entrepreneurs in developing countries with people who want to lend them money to build their businesses. Now the San Francisco charity is asking programmers to develop new online tools to further promote its microfinance mission.
The group has created an open-application programming interface — API for short — through which computer programmers can request public data about Kiva's work.
Those data are then delivered with
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