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"Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus will join the 2012 Social Good Summit to share his expertise on on the life-changing impact of mobile. Yunus created the micro-credit movement that provides loans to poor entrepreneurs and founded the Grameen Bank. He is currently on the board of the United Nations Foundation.\nProfessor Yunus has dedicated his career to solving complex economic problems that help improve poverty and social conditions. As a professor of economics, he developed the concepts of micro-finance and micro-credit that helped struggling entrepreneurs receive bank loans, and especially focused on providing loans for poor women in rural regions.  \nHe has received the Noble Peace Prize as well as several other prestigious international awards for his efforts in economic and social development for the poor. He also strives to motivate the next generation to connect their ideas and communities for good through digital and social media.  \nTickets are limited and this year's agenda is full of inspiring sessions, so make sure to purchase your tickets today!\n\n\nProfessor Yunus will join world leaders, digital innovators and influential individuals at the Social Good Summit, taking place Sept. 22-24 in New York City. New York Times bestselling author and Chopra Foundation founder Deepak Chopra, Meetup co-founder and CEO Scott Heiferman, and actresses America Ferrera and Alexis Bledel will also be present onstage.  You can view the latest agenda here. \nThe Social Good Summit is a three-day conference that will unite global leaders as they share how to use the power of innovative thinking and technology to solve the world's greatest challenges. Tickets are available for all three days.\nImage courtesy of Flickr, United Nations Photo.\nPurchase Your Tickets to Social Good Summit\n\nThe Social Good Summit is where big ideas meet new media to create innovative solutions. Held during UN 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: Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012, through Monday, Sept. 24, 2012Time: 1:00-5:00 p.m. and 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. each dayLocation: 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Ave., New York, NYTickets: $130 for a three-day pass.\n\nPress: Press credentials will be given to press and bloggers from around the world for all Social Good Summit sessions and the Digital Media Lounge (DML). The DML is a fully wired work space at 92Y to report out of, network with fellow members of the media, and self-organize interviews and exclusive content from Social Good Summit sessions. The DML will be open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sept. 22-24. To apply, please fill in the form here.\nAbout Ericsson\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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