Archive for September, 2008

24 September 2008

Social Technology for Social Change

Between the 5th and 7th of December the second Social Innovation Camp will take place in London and hopefully Jiva will be at the event to both contribute and learn from the other attendees.

According to the ‘About’ section of the SI Camp website it is “an experiment in creating social innovations for the digital age” [...]

23 September 2008

Investing in Education

The folks over at EduFire wrote an interesting post yesterday that pointed me to the Union Square Ventures blog for an especially enlightening insight into the sort of areas they, as early stage venture capitalists, are interested in getting in to.

Union Square have invested in an impressive portfolio of web companies in recent years and [...]

19 September 2008

Thinking about 4IP

4IP is a really interesting new initiative from Channel 4 that is setting out to look at how Channel 4 can fulfill its public service broadcasting requirements in a digital age where television is not necessarily the be all and end all.

It is of particular interest to a start-up like us here at Jiva as [...]

11 September 2008

What does Jiva stand for?

by Jon Ellis

At Jiva we pride ourselves on producing great web-based solutions — this is only possible because we work effectively as a team and our focus is entirely on the needs of our customers.

As a start-up we have been able to develop our own unique culture. We have learned from our years in large [...]