tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7402080934870422815.post-538426968561627592008-05-28T12:06:00.000-04:002008-05-28T12:06:00.000-04:00Hey Erick.<BR/><BR/>I read your post, looked through a bunch of the other blog posts on B4B Blog, and watched the video on the Kiva B4B site. Good stuff. Thanks for making me a part of it.<BR/><BR/>When I first saw your comment, I thought for a second you had written B4BB, something we used at <A HREF="http://www.pfchina.org/en/?c=ns" REL="nofollow">PlaNet Finance China</A> as our acronym for <EM>Broadband for Barefoot Bankers</EM>. <BR/><BR/>We did a project with the European Commission, Microsoft, the China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation, and a German IT firm called Fraunhofer FIT the goal of which was to bring basic information technology training to microentrepreneurs and microfinance professionals. <BR/><BR/>PF China sent me out to coal mining country to do some interviews for our final report, and <A HREF="http://youtube.com/watch?v=X-EdTSxi0tk" REL="nofollow">this</A> is what we made (that's <A HREF="http://youtube.com/watch?v=X-EdTSxi0tk" REL="nofollow">part 1</A>; here's <A HREF="http://youtube.com/watch?v=yoHSdFLM758" REL="nofollow">part 2</A>). Not Hollywood grade material by any stretch, but we squeezed this out of a tiny budget, so we were pretty happy with the result.<BR/><BR/>Just thought of the B4BB connection and figured you might want to see.<BR/><BR/>Again, thanks for mentioning the blog.<BR/><BR/>Good luck with B4B.<BR/><BR/>JakeJake de Graziahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15060919691512039601noreply@blogger.com