The Mashable & 92Y Social Good Summit

Monday Sept. 20th 2010 was a summit presented by Mashable and 92Y discussing effective ways in which new media can help address the world’s challenges - when Susan Smith Ellis of RED spoke of how Social Media could help spread the message that an HIV + person needs 2 pills costing just 40 cents to remain alive, my thoughts went out to some one I know  who needs to make sure that the HIV levels DO NOT fall below a certain level so that she could keep getting the medicine at a low cost fom the Govenment hospitals!! So I wonder how are we going to tackle such problems...Ray Chambers' (Special Envoy for Malaria, UN) solution of the $10 mosquito nets was something most of the Asian countries need - the tropical zone has this huge problem and I remember going to a village in Orissa (India) where every house had one person sick with malaria... read more at http://mashable.com/un-week/social-good-summit/