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September 26, 2012 08:28 am GMT

How Social Good Summit Sparked the Largest Conversation on Earth


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A suicide bombing exploded outside of one of the only Internet cafes in Somalia's capital last Thursday. Three days later, the cafe's owner spoke on one of the Social Good Summit Mogadishu's Global Conversation panels.

When the event's organizer asked him if he still wanted to speak, the cafe owner replied, "This is even more important now."

The really exciting part of this year's Social Good Summit didn't take place on the 92nd Street Y's upper Manhattan stage -- it occurred at more than 200 meetups across the world.

The Social Good Summit's two newest partners -- The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the U.N. Development Programme -- helped elevate the summit to a unprecede…
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