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"Stricken with polio since age two,\u00A0Neema\u00A0Namadamu is now a determined activist running a women's rights organization in the Congo. As the founder of Maman Shujaa Hero Women of Congo, Namadamu trains women to be digital activists by sharing their stories and solutions for change online.\nNamadamu emphasized that technology is an especially crucial communications tool for women with disabilities like herself on stage at the Social Good Summit on Sunday.\nSee also: How to Follow Social Good Summit Online\n\"Telling each other\u2019s stories. Together we have made a solution,\" said\u00A0Namadamu.\nNamadamu works in partnership with World Pulse, a women's empowerment network that connects nearly 60,000 women in more than 200 countries.\u00A0World Pulse's CEO and co-founder, Jensine Larsen, discussed the importance of female grassroots leaders like Namadamu creating global dialogue online and partnering with other like-minded organizations.\n\"We need to create this vocal uprising. A massive movement of women across the world will be like the Arab spring,\" Larsen said.\nLarsen mentioned a recent World Pulse campaign aimed at ending the brutal practice of breast ironing in Cameroon, where women's breast tissue is physically harmed to halt development. Through World Pulse 12,000 female activists vowed to end the practice in an online petition.\nWorld Pulse has partnered with more than 40 organizations, including Maman Shujaa, which was founded by Namadamu. \"Maman Shujaa\" translates as \"hero women\" in Swahili, and\u00A0through grassroots activism and\u00A0digital empowerment, women are organizing against domestic assault, rape and other issues in one of the most violent and silenced regions in the world. The efforts of Maman Shujaa and other activists led to the Obama administration assigning a special U.N. envoy to the Congo in July.\nAbout Social Good Summit\n\nThe Social Good Summit is where big ideas meet new media to create innovative solutions and is brought to you by Mashable, The 92nd Street Y, The United Nations Foundation, The United Nations Development Programme, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Ericsson. Held during U.N. Week, the Social Good Summit unites a dynamic community of global leaders to discuss a big idea: the power of innovative thinking and technology to solve our greatest challenges.\nDate: Sept. 22 through Sept. 24Time: 12 to 6 p.m. each dayLocation: 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Ave., New York, N.Y.Tickets are sold out, but tune into the Livestream.\nAbout Ericsson\nBONUS: 10 Empowering Apps for Social Good\n\n\nSocial Good Apps\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1. Budge\n\n\nGone are the days of daring your friends without consequences. When you challenge your friends to Budge, the person who loses the challenge needs to donate an agreed upon amount to a charity of the winner's choosing.\nAvailable on iOS.\n\n\nImage: Dabble Co.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2. Charity Miles\n\n\nCharity Miles lets you raise money for your favorite causes while walking, running or biking. The app's corporate sponsors donate 25 cents for each mile you walk or run, and 10 cents for each mile you bike.\nCharity Miles is available for iOS and Android.\n\n\nImage: Charity Miles\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n3. Donate a Photo\n\nWith every photo you share, Johnson &amp; Johnson donates $1 to a cause of your choosing. The Donate a Photo app, available on iOS and Android, also lets you follow your friends' photos, so you can keep up with your social life.\n\nImage: Johnson &amp; Johnson Services\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n4. Feedie\n\nGreat for foodies, photographers and humanitarians, this iOS app adds a great cause to your foodstagrams. When you dine and snap a food shot at one of the participating restaurants -- which, for now, are only in New York -- a meal is donated to a non-profit feeding schoolchildren in South Africa.\n\nImage: Feedie\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n5. Get Water! For India\n\n\nIn this free iOS game, you'll travel with Maya, an Indian girl, as she navigates the slums in search of clean water. The longer it takes her to find water, the more school she misses. \nThe game was created in partnership with charity: water, which lends in-game missions and video scenes to the app.\n\n\nImage: Decode Global\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n6. Instead\n\nDid you know that with the money you save cooking three of your own meals, you could fund someone's HIV medicine for three months? Instead is an iOS app that shows you how much you can save with simple tweaks in your lifestyle. Once you make those cheaper decisions, Instead encourages you to donate to a non-profit out of your savings.\n\nImage: Oven Bits\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n7. My Life as a Refugee\n\nMy Life as a Refugee is an app for iOS and Android created by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). It lets anyone around the world experience life fleeing from conflict or persecution. Through beautiful illustrations, you'll read the stories of the app's many characters, who have been separated from their loved ones and have experienced hardships.\n\nImage: UNHCR\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n8. Recyclebank\n\nThe Recyclebank app, available for iOS and Android, rewards you for recycling. The gamification of recycling awards points that you can redeem in stores and in the app.\n\nImage: RecycleRewards\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n9. TangoTab\n\nForget daily deal apps -- there are apps that give back while giving you a great deal. TangoTab, available for iOS and Android, donates meals to food banks every time a diner purchases one of its restaurant deals. \n\nImage: TangoTab\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n10. VolunteerMatch\n\n\nEager for a new volunteer program? This iOS app brings the online volunteer network onto your smartphone. It has a sleek interface that will help you find great opportunities to give back near you.\nVolunteerMatch lets you select which skill you're looking to use to volunteer, so you can lend your expert web design or managerial skills, for example.\n\n\nImage: VolunteerMatch\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage: Mashable,\u00A0Casey Kelbaugh"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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