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How do we make a kickstarer/crowdfunding website for innovators from the developing nations ?

Kickstartr is largely a concept that services creative ideas. Majority of the users are American or from developed nations. A bigger majority of the ideas on kickstarter are American ideas. How does one build a website for the 'world' to use as a platform for crowd funding and support for innovative ideas ?

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    Simon Tam

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    Jul 11 2012: There's always Kiva (kiva.org), which is a site that allows for users to create micro-loans in order to help invest into the lives of others in developing nations. It doesn't necessarily revolve around the arts as Kickstarter, Rockethub, or IndieGoGo does, but the concept is pretty similar: people investing into each other's ideas.

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