Kiva.org

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Kiva.org has been a breakthrough in the world of micro-finance. It allows anyone to browse a directory of entrepreneurs and directly invest in small businesses around the world. Chapter Three worked with Kiva to design and develop a streamlined application that allows volunteers and their coordinators to easily translate, edit, and manage source content. It functions as a rich volunteer intranet and content work-flow system that manages all stages of the volunteer and content life-cycle.

Features

  • Volunteer Directory: Volunteers maintain rich profiles that contain over thirty fields of information including scheduled availability, working preferences, and geographic location. Coordinators are able to search on all fields in combination, manage volunteer status and permissions, and email blast participants.
  • Automated Content Import: Untranslated content is sent to the application over a RESTFUL interface and full translated content is sent back following editor approval.
  • Volunteer Availability Matching: When creating translation or editing assignments, available volunteers are suggested to coordinators based on a weighted search that incorporates six different criteria.
  • Translation Management: A streamlined interface allows volunteers to easily translate and revise business profiles in their assignments.
  • Editing Workflow: After translation, business profiles are assigned to editing teams for final fixes before being published to the website.