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Marcia Stepanek | Monday 16th November 2009
Innovators have always been heroes, whether or not the marketplace liked their inventions or immediately recognized them for their brilliance. [Think Philo Farnsworth (TV), Preston Tucker (1948 Torpedo automobile), Alexander Fleming (Penicillin) and Steve Jobs, just for starters.]

But today's entrepreneurial landscape is different. More than any other time in recent history, it is crowded with new venture ideas. Today's business and non-profit worlds favor the young and the globally conscious, and even in the most destitute corners of the world, young social innovators are more start-up savvy than ever. They're not waiting for permission to get started: the world's problems have rarely seemed so daunting.

To commemorate Global Entrepreneurship Week (#GEW), which runs this week in 85 nations [including the United States], this blog will be posting three short "Changemaker" profiles spotlighting a few of the most dynamic new social entrepreneurs using the mobile Internet today. To be sure, we profile many innovators on this blog -- regardless of what week it is. But this week and next, we'll focus on a few who are testing new ways to use new "right here, right now" mobile technologies to improve the world as we know it.
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