00:00
280
More
See all Show me
Kiva's videos
4. Intercontinental Ballistic Microfinance - Truncate…
by Kiva
3 months ago
3. Intercontinental Ballistic Microfinance
by Kiva
5 months ago
2. Happy Valentine's Day and Thank You from Kiva!
by Kiva
1 year ago
1. How Kiva Works
by Kiva
1 year ago
What happens when 620,000 lenders fund 615,000 entrepreneurs, students, and other microfinance borrowers around the world?

Five+ years of Kiva loan activity, in full color. Thanks to all the lenders, borrowers, partners, and team members who brightened this map - and helped to change lives in the process.

kiva.org

Credits

Likes

See all likes

Tags

  • Kieran Bagodonuts 5 months ago
    Wowser! That is incredible.
  •  
  • Paul Ericksen 5 months ago
    I can see my loans from here!
  • hjalli plus 5 months ago
    Me too! Not so many coming out of Iceland in the early days ;)
  •  
  • Brian Konash 5 months ago
    wow!
  •  
  • Five Talents 5 months ago
    Great video -- very interesting!
  •  
  • Matt Rolland 5 months ago
    This visualization is great! What software did you use to make it? Is the software publicly available?
  • Paul Ericksen 5 months ago
    It was done with PHP using GD libraries... unfortunately, it wasn't as simple as just running some software to do it automatically. The engineers who worked on it wrote all the code to create the images then used Amazon's Elastic Cloud service to do all the rendering of the frames. It was a massive amount of data to process!
  •  
  • Jared Tarbell 5 months ago
    Nice work, this is beautiful! I'm happy to be a particle emitter.
  • Paul Ericksen 5 months ago
    It is great to watch this and know that we're a part of this revolution and that some of those points of light are us :D
  •  
  • Dorothy Currier 5 months ago
    This is incredible! Thank you for all your hard work! I can't even imagine attempting this project!
  •  
  • Patrick Welch 5 months ago
    Very cool! The loans seem to have more impact when seen from this sort of omnipresent perspective.
  •  
  • Nicole Gauvin 5 months ago
    Awesome! Would love to see this kind of thing happen more often!
  • Paul Ericksen 3 months ago
    Check out kiva.org/live to see what's happening right now. :D
  •  
  • clemsos 5 months ago
    Awesome video ! It's actually giving me hope :)
  •  
  • David Haberthür 5 months ago
    Congratulations on your beautiful and eyecatching visualization!
  •  
  • Garret Akerson 5 months ago
    Love it and love Kiva! Awesome!
  •  
  • S J B 4 months ago
    What a world changing achievement, congrats, and more importantly, thank you on behalf of those better off for it now!
  •  
  • Paul Ericksen 3 months ago
    To see a visualization of what's happening right now, go to: kiva.org/live
  •  
This conversation is missing your voice. Take five seconds to join Vimeo or log in.

Advertisement

About this video

M4V
00:04:40
  • 1280x720, 326.65MB
  • Uploaded Wed August 31, 2011
  • Please join or log in to download

Statistics

Date Plays Comments
Totals 117K 358 19
Feb 24th 0 0 0
Feb 23rd 60 0 0
Feb 22nd 47 0 0
Feb 21st 40 1 0
Feb 20th 43 0 0
Feb 19th 48 0 0
Feb 18th 49 0 0

Related lessons from Vimeo Video School

Check out these lessons to learn more about how you can make videos like this one!