This studio investigates the effects of digitalization on architectural typology and the contemporary city. In our first year 2006/07, we examine the changes of one particular typology: the architecture of banking. We question the fundamental concept of what a bank is today, and develop architectural strategies for its potential futures.

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 aKos Technology Corporation is the pioneering force behind the emergence of mobile remittances. By marrying wireless services and money-transfer technology, we enable wireless carriers to offer remittance services to their subscribers. As a result, individuals can send money internationally from their mobile phone and recipients can receive those funds in cash at merchants they already frequent. Now, wireless carriers can take part in the multi-billion dollar global remittance market.

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How Kiva Works

Choose an Entrepreneur, Lend, Get Repaid

The below diagram shows briefly how money gets from you to a developing-world entrepreneur, and back.

1) Lenders like you browse profiles of entrepreneurs in need, and choose someone to lend to. When they lend, using PayPal or their credit cards, Kiva collects the funds and then passes them along to one of our microfinance partners worldwide.

2) Kiva's microfinance partners distribute the loan funds to the selected entrepreneur. Often, our partners also provide training and other assistance to maximize the entrepreneur's chances of success.

3) Over time, the entrepreneur repays their loan. Repayment and other updates are posted on Kiva and emailed to lenders who wish to receive them.

4) When lenders get their money back, they can re-lend to someone else in need, donate their funds to Kiva (to cover operational expenses), or withdraw their funds.

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This studio investigates the effects of digitalization on architectural typology and the contemporary city. In our first year 2006/07, we examine the changes of one particular typology: the architecture of banking. We question the fundamental concept of what a bank is today, and develop architectural strategies for its potential futures.

From site

 aKos Technology Corporation is the pioneering force behind the emergence of mobile remittances. By marrying wireless services and money-transfer technology, we enable wireless carriers to offer remittance services to their subscribers. As a result, individuals can send money internationally from their mobile phone and recipients can receive those funds in cash at merchants they already frequent. Now, wireless carriers can take part in the multi-billion dollar global remittance market.

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Everyone
funding Startups

Grow VC is the first
global crowdfunding
tool for web and mobile
startups.

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Promote more financial transparancy between different forms of (related) organizations

The motivation behind Donorge is to grow the ability to transparently support ideas and creation, either localized or connected around the world. What is supported inside Donorge is what you support and what in turn those ideas and creations you support support. This allows for there being more transparency and potential effectiveness at the resource layer of organizations and their voluntary contributed resources.

This studio investigates the effects of digitalization on architectural typology and the contemporary city. In our first year 2006/07, we examine the changes of one particular typology: the architecture of banking. We question the fundamental concept of what a bank is today, and develop architectural strategies for its potential futures.

Social Entrepreneur data discovery platform (US). Uses social networking diagrams to discover areas of overlap among social enterprise entities, both for profit and non-profit

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 aKos Technology Corporation is the pioneering force behind the emergence of mobile remittances. By marrying wireless services and money-transfer technology, we enable wireless carriers to offer remittance services to their subscribers. As a result, individuals can send money internationally from their mobile phone and recipients can receive those funds in cash at merchants they already frequent. Now, wireless carriers can take part in the multi-billion dollar global remittance market.