CGI Live Blog: Investing in Girls and Women With Diane Sawyer | Tonic

Investing in Girls and Women (Diane Sawyer)

(09/23/2009)

8:55	Katherine Gustafson: Hi everyone! Katherine Gustafson and I are here in the Metropolitan Ballroom gearing up for this morning’s plenary: “Investing in Women and Girls”

8:55	Katherine Gustafson: Hi everyone! The music is mellow, the crowd is snacking on a continental breakfast, a whiff of empowerment is in the air.

8:55	caroline: And that was actually Caroline, not Katherine Gustafson referring to herself.

8:57

caroline: The mingling has begun. And a slideshow of photos of girls around the globe has started playing on the massive screens flanking the stage.

8:58

caroline:

We’re getting a brief intro — letting us to know that guests can tet message questions to the Moderator of the session. Pretty cool.

8:58

caroline:

er, “text” message

8:58

Katherine Gustafson: The program is about to begin

8:59

Katherine Gustafson: Hip music and light fades as people take their seats.

8:59

caroline:

video of Peter and Jennifer Buffet (presumably from last year) is playing now

8:59

caroline: yup, looks like a highlight reel from last year

8:59

Katherine Gustafson: Peter Buffett on video: At the NoVo foundation we have discovered something undervalued in the marketplace: girls and women

8:59

caroline: Clinton’s VO talking about the “girl effect”

9:00

caroline: a term we’re likely to hear a lot this week

9:00

caroline: Ashley Judd on the screen, discussing the importance of these initiatives. She’s been involved in the cause through various NGOs for a long time now

9:01

Katherine Gustafson: We’re watching a women’s empowerment video montage highlighting all sorts of initiatives benefitgting girls and women

9:01

caroline: including several of the panelists for today’s session

9:01

Katherine Gustafson: Zainab Salbi asks how we get women’s voices represented at the negotiating table.

9:02

Katherine Gustafson: Zainab Salbi is founder and CEO of Women for Women Int’l

9:02

Katherine Gustafson: She will be featured in an article on Tonic later today

9:02

caroline: The Buffets, by the way, are in the room right now. Watching themselves on screen being honored and adored. Gotta feel cool, right?

9:03

caroline: Lights back up, dancy calpyso filler on the speakers. Katherine and I resisting the temptation to boogie.

9:03

caroline: And here comes Clinton!

9:04

Steve Enders: I love the Bill Clinton theme music. Very cinematic.

9:04

caroline: to decidedly more dramatic music

9:04

caroline: ”thank you for getting up for the morning panel” he says. everyone giggles

9:05

caroline: Clinton: explaining why this is so important “besides the fact that i’ve been hearing about this at home for some 30 years” (chuckle)

9:05

caroline: 50% of HIV + people in sub-Saharan Africa are women.

9:06

caroline:

he’s noting that women are not the ones generally engaging in the high risk behavior that’s the cause — “it’s like you’re walking along the street one day and someone drops a block of concrete on you”

9:06

Katherine Gustafson: Clinton’s looking grandfather with bifocals down on the nose.

9:06

9:07

Katherine Gustafson: Clinton: Our best ambassadors are young women and teenagers . . . who refuse to live as victims

9:07

caroline: He’s telling the story of real families affected by these circumstances, losing children to these problems

9:08

caroline:

Clinton: women do 66% of the worlds work, produce %50 of the world’s food, earn 10% of the world’s income and own only 1% of the world’s property

9:08

caroline:

He’s saying that most of us get up in the morning without having any awareness of these things.

9:08

caroline: ”We’ve got to connect the dots here in order for a lot of places in the world to become whole again”

9:09

Katherine Gustafson: He’s saying it’s all connected. Women’s issues aren’t a separate issue from other problems.

9:09

caroline: he’s saying that education, climate change, political and social economic problems and everything in between are ALL related to empowering women and girls

9:09

Katherine Gustafson: He agrees with Nicholas Krisof that the 21st century is the century for women

9:09

Katherine Gustafson: He says: Empowering women is what we have to do in the 21st century

9:09

caroline: he’s outlining the commitments and inviting the guests and panelists

9:10

caroline: He’s introducing the President of the Nike Foundation, Maria Eitel

9:10

Katherine Gustafson: The Nike Foundaiton has partnered with the NoVo Foundation on a big iniatitive called “The Girl Effect”

9:11

caroline: Maria is going to introduce the “commitment-makers” and outline their work

9:11

caroline:

Eitel: “before she’s a woman, she’s a girl” –> starting at the source, the “Girl Effect”

9:11

Katherine Gustafson: She’s in a pink suit, bright next to Clinton’s black suit and gray tie.

9:13

Katherine Gustafson: She’s introducing a lot of great women’s empowerment professionals that are making commitments to women and girls.

9:13

caroline: She’s introducing some individuals, among them, representatives from:
Merk, Girls Inc, ING, Freeplay Foundation, Sherie Blaire Foundation for Women …

9:15

Steve Enders: Maria just walked through a number of commitments including…

9:15

Katherine Gustafson: Photo Op!

9:15

caroline:

Clinton’s back on stage, talking about women’s economic empowerment now

9:15

Katherine Gustafson: Sorry, got kicked off line there for a minute.

9:15

caroline: ”in many places in the world, women are overworked and underpaid … also underemployed in the formal sense”

9:15

Katherine Gustafson: Clinton: women are underpaid and underemployed

9:16

Katherine Gustafson: Clinton says there’s a lot of commitment this year about economic empowerment for women

9:16

caroline:

Collen Gale, President and CEO of Care, is taking the stage now

9:16

caroline: Thanking Clinton for putting focus on this issue

9:16

Steve Enders: commitments include: college education programs for girls, health education and sanitary pads for women and girls so they can work, providing job skills and media production training, providing lights and radio for girls in rwanda, a palestinian education fund for the west bank, and other global health care programs for women and girls and rural health care in bangladesh

9:17

Steve Enders: a number of orgs and corporations responsible for the above commitments

9:17

Katherine Gustafson: CARE is an advocate for supporting marginalized girls through education.

9:17

caroline:

They’re bringing out “clusters” of individuals making commitments toward economic empowerment initiatives

9:19

caroline:

We’re seeing lots of representatives (NGOs and Corporations alike) who are using microfinance and artisan production training as means of supporting entrepreneurs

9:19

Katherine Gustafson: Commitments include expanding Goldman Sachs’ 10,000 initiative into Peru, developing handicraft production centers, providing poor women with microfinance, healthcare and training, using online resources to connect US women with Malawian women.

9:20

caroline:

Clinton: The last commitment involves Women for Women Int’l, the NoVo Foundation and Bloomberg Philanthropies

9:20

caroline: He just invited Mayor Mike Bloomberg to the stage

9:20

caroline: he’s also introducing the founder and CEO of W for W, Zainab Salbi

9:21

caroline: and Jennifer and Peter Buffet of NoVo

9:21

caroline: Bloomberg is singing Bill’s praises — “the fact that he lives with our Secretary of State up in Chapaqua and is not a NY taxpayer … I will forgive him for that”

9:21

caroline: yuk yuk

9:22

caroline:

He’s talking about countries where so many men have died in civil war and genocide where women have become the “backbone” of the communities

9:22

caroline: Sub-Saharan African countries in particular

9:23

caroline: he’s giving the example of pineapple farming that W for W It’l supported
saying it’s now “bearing fruit”
(bad pun? good pun? your call …)

9:23

Katherine Gustafson: He’s got on a rockin pink tie

9:24

caroline:

He’s acknowledging and praising Jennifer and Peter’s commitment

9:25	Will the 21st century be the century of women? Heck yeah ( 50% ) Are you kidding? There’s no way ( 0% ) Dare I hope? ( 50% ) As long as there are martinis, I don’t care ( 0% )

9:25

caroline: He’s stressing how these programs help women in regaining social and economic empowerment and rebuilding their communities … calling their work a “vitally important endeavor”

9:25

caroline: and indicating the private sector’s responsibility to address issues that “the government can’t or won’t”

9:25

caroline: snap!

9:25

caroline: applause, applause!

9:26

caroline: aaaaaand … a photo op

9:26

Katherine Gustafson: Bloomberg is thrilled to be working with Zainab Salbi and Jennifer and Peter Buffett and Bill Clinton

9:26

caroline: with a neat-o certificate suitable for framing

9:26

caroline: Bill is about to introduce the panel and admitting that he didn’t bring his notes onstage, not sure if he’s supposed to introduce them or not

9:27

Katherine Gustafson: But of course he has something eloquent to say.

9:27

Katherine Gustafson: WIthout notes. As usual.

9:28

caroline:

He’s telling a story that he says “Diane Sawyer” will kill him for, which isn’t actually all that scandelous: just reporting that she and Hillary went to Wellesly together and that her hard work is finally recognized in her groundbreaking work as a nightly news anchor

9:28

Katherine Gustafson: Clinton says this problem has been tens of thousands of years in the making. It won’t be eradicated by our little efforts, but we’re doing good things.

9:28

caroline:

Here come the panelists!

9:28

caroline: Rex W. Tillerson, ExxonMobil

9:29

caroline: Zainib Salbi again

9:29

caroline: Robert B. Zoellick (world bank group)

9:29

caroline:

Lloyd C. Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs Group

9:29

caroline: And Diane Sawyer!!!!

9:29

caroline:

can’t help myself: she’s dazzling

9:29

caroline: Ha! “I want to burn all my college photos, but not the experience”

9:30

caroline: she says

9:30

caroline: (did I miss an old college photo on these screens???)

9:30

caroline: Sawyer: “our overall approach is going to be what works … and what doesn’t work”

9:31

Katherine Gustafson: Diane Sawyer says these are “power hitters” for this issue.

9:31

caroline: She’s going down the line, introducing the panelists. First up, Lloyd C Blankfein

9:31

caroline: she asks: “Why women, though? Why not women and men equally?”

9:31

caroline: His answer: “when you invest in women, you invest in families”

9:31

Katherine Gustafson: Diane Sawyer asks if he’ll be hiring these women right away at Goldman Sachs.

9:32

Katherine Gustafson: The women GS’s program, 10,000 women, is training.

9:32

Katherine Gustafson: Training in business and managment

9:32

Katherine Gustafson: The answer is no.

9:32

caroline: Going on to explain that though he may not be promising to hire these women straight out of the gates, their work is helping to shape academic and mentorship programs and scholarships that will re-establish the way women are educated and prepared in business

9:33

Katherine Gustafson: Diane Sawyer turns top Melanne Verveer, who is the first Ambassador for GLobal Womens’ issues

9:33

caroline: Sawyer is talking about women empowerment (ie: education) as the most powerful combatant against extremism in the world

9:34

Erin: (Editorial comment: As Diane does introductions, am I the only one who thinks these events are totally bizarre when the CEO of The Goldman Sachs Group is sitting by the CEO of Women for Women who is sitting near the by the CEO of Exxon… AND they are talking about women?!)

9:34

Katherine Gustafson:

Verveer: “The most dangerous places in the world are those places where women are put down in the most extreme way. Women are on the frontlines of moderation.”

9:35

caroline:

Robert Zoellick is talking now about the Adolescent Girls Initiative

9:35

caroline: (he’s the President of the The World Bank Group, fyi)

9:36

caroline:

And here’s Zainab Salbi. We have really amazing stories for you that she told exclusively to Tonic. Make sure you check the homepage shortly after this session ends …

9:36

Katherine Gustafson:

Sawyer asks Salbi about how women can live in fear.

9:36

caroline: Salbi is talking about the huge rates of war victims, rape victims, refugee/displacement, torture that affects women

9:37

caroline: and addressing a circumstance in the Congo

9:37

Katherine Gustafson: Salbi: Thousands of women are getting raped in Congo, yet they are standing up ont their feet. They have no choiced but to stand up on their feed because they have kids.

9:37

caroline: gut-wrenching

9:37

Katherine Gustafson: She’s talking about a woman who’s family members were killed in front of her and who has one leg.

9:38

caroline: (note: the UN established years ago that rape is in fact a tool of genocide, a way to eradicate races/communities … the conflict in the DRC is among the most severe we have ever known)

9:38

Katherine Gustafson: Salbi: “The people who are keeping life going in the midst of wars are not being heard”

9:39

caroline: Ok, on to Rex W. Tillerson, CEO of ExxonMobile, who is talking now about technologies that can help advance and enable women.

9:39

Katherine Gustafson: Salbi said its devastating that the people who are really keeping society operating in the face of crisis are not at the table

9:40

caroline:

Zainab Salbi, for the record, is sitting next to him with a wide-eyed, engaged focus on him as he speaks. Wondering what she’s thinking …

9:41

Katherine Gustafson: Now she’s talking to Edna Adan, wife of former prime minister of Somalia

9:41

Katherine Gustafson: By “she” I mean Sawyer.

9:41

Katherine Gustafson: Sawyer: What’s the simple thing that you’ve seen change the most lives?

9:41

Katherine Gustafson: Adan: The single most important give that we can leave to communities is the gift of knowledge. The girl of having skills to deal with problems of reproduction.

9:42

caroline:

Sawyer led that question by quoting Adan, who apparently has said: “the simple thing that changes one life is the fire beginning to burn”

9:42

Katherine Gustafson: She looks awesome, by the way — colored squares all over her tunic and a sparkly black-and-white headdress

9:43

Katherine Gustafson: She says the problems for women don’t need complicated technologies. They need skilled birth attendants and water to wash one’s hands with.

9:43

caroline: It will be interesting to see how these proposals/statements relate in breakout sessions later in the day that are focusing on innovation in technology and “Enterprise-Based Strategies for Health and Education”

9:44

Katherine Gustafson: Adan is, by the way, director and founder of the Edna Adan Maternity Hospital in Hargeisa, Somalia

9:44

caroline:

Agreed, Katie. She looks amazing up there amidst the black suits. Not that business-wear is the most important thing to note, but it really looks like she’s here to celebrate this initiative!

9:44

Katherine Gustafson: Shades of Color Purple — they’re talking about stopping female genital mutilation

9:45

caroline:

Sawyer, on the problems facing women in education: “It’s not always the men, it’s often the women who are reinforcing it”

9:45

Katherine Gustafson: Adan has tried to put a stop to this, but Sawyer notes that the problem hasn’t lessened.

9:45

Katherine Gustafson: Adan says we need to educate men.

9:45

Katherine Gustafson: Verveer is talking about organizations that have had success with this. “It is all a grassroots effort.”

9:46

Katherine Gustafson: By “this” I mean addressing female genital mutilation (FGM)

9:47

caroline: Oooh, Melanne Verveer is stepping in, pointing to a Senegalese woman in the room who heads up an organization called Tostan (which I, incidentally, almost worked for a few years ago!) who does really revolutionary work by engaging whole communities AND religious leaders, taking Imams into communities teaching them citations from texts that show them that FGM isn’t required by their religion, that they are free to break the cycle

9:48

caroline:

Sawyer is pressing Lloyd Blankfein on how many women he can actually affect — realistically

9:49

Katherine Gustafson:

Blankfein admits that the problem is huge. Wondered: “Are we swimming as fast as the current is moving against us?”

9:49

Katherine Gustafson: Blankfein: We want to create a generation of skilled local managers

9:49

caroline: Blankfein says: “to get there, we have to create the program, create the infrastructure, train teachers” … that they can’t just start out affecting 100,000 women from the start

9:49

Katherine Gustafson: Have to start out with 10,000 women, then move on to 100,000 women

9:49

caroline: Diane Sawyer isn’t letting panelists sway from her recent question: what was your biggest failure?

9:50

caroline: Salbi: “This is money, it’s all about money … create a viable alternative for the parents to send their girls to school … so taht the girl can get a job and hopefully go to university and that job is more [financially important] than the cows”

9:51

caroline: Sawyer is bringing up the issue of sex trade now

9:52

Katherine Gustafson: Talking about human trafficking. Sawyer notes that there are a million children in slavery. Sawyer: “If you can’t get the world to unite behind that, what could you?”

9:52

caroline: Verveer is referencing one of the US’s first laws affected by human trafficking that was launched by Bill Clinton when he was in office

9:52

Katherine Gustafson: Verveer talking about policy on trafficking

9:52

caroline: she says “government can’t do it alone … NGO’s can’t do it alone”

9:52

caroline: *** “the way this has changed in recent years is the business community”*** — Verveer

9:53

caroline: this is huge, right?

9:53

caroline: Sawyer wants to know the philosophy, the responsibility that businesses have addressing these concerns and getting “everybody on board”

9:54

caroline: Tillerman (ExxonMobile): “it’s a combination of not just financial commitment, but human resource commitment”

9:55

caroline: He’s saying that the real power is not in funding, but in finding individual women who have the influence to shape their communities on a grassroots level

9:55

Katherine Gustafson: Salbi: less than 1 cent of development dollars go to girls

9:56

caroline: and Salbi takes issue with this — saying money is not the problem BUT that the political decision to not invest enough in women is a huge problem

9:56

caroline: and she gets two rounds of applause for her boldness

9:56

caroline: Go, girl.

9:57

caroline: The two are engaging in a little discussion/debate in this point … Salbi is asking “are we including women in the decision-making?”

9:57

Katherine Gustafson:

Salbi asks: Are we measuring our impact on women? the impact of our projects

9:58

caroline: ”We’ve been giving good speeches in the last decades” — applause! — “But now it’s time to walk the walk”

9:58

Katherine Gustafson: Oh snap!

9:58

Katherine Gustafson: Salbi is the one on the screen in the above photo

10:00

caroline: Verveer just jumped in saying how we need to stop writing off these issues as niche: “I think one of the problems has been that we have been looking at these issues as ‘women’s issues’ — soft, nice, check the box, on the side. We have got to integrate these issues in everything we do.”

10:00

caroline:

That’s a hugely important point — it’s all connected and serves EVERYONE if we address obstacles women face.

10:01

Katherine Gustafson:

Sawyer asks Blankfein to asks Tillerson the toughest question you can ask him about the role of corporate America in its profits in funding development

10:02

Katherine Gustafson: Blankfein says “The problem is how money is absorbed.” You can have kids in school, but when they’re done, will they have jobs? “You have to get at the infrastructure of situations. In the case of big companies what we supply is expertise, and also, quite frankly, the passion of the people who work for our organizations.

10:03

caroline: Love that Sawyer is getting the panelists to voice their own “toughest questions” by the way. Fierce.

10:04

caroline: Tillman is giving a long answer but just hit the point of sustainability. Saying that the real question he struggles with is creating the conditions that will allow these programs to stand on their own.

10:05

caroline: Zoellick is acknowledging that there is plenty of good will in the room, but noting that “gender economics is charitable economics”

10:05

caroline: Major point!!! People don’t just engage in a movement because of charitable ideals. We’ve got to “mainstream” through self-interest.

10:06

caroline: He also said that infrastructure isn’t just hard infrastructure, it’s legal and economic

10:06

caroline: Sawyer: to Edna Adan “How do you empower women cultures that don’t believe that women should be empowered?”

10:07

wonkroom: Exxon Mobil CEO to Goldman Sachs CEO: I may have the oil but he has the capital. (Oy……) #cgi09

10:08

Katherine Gustafson: Edna Adan says that it is about recognition. Her country has no women mayors, no women in Senate, only 2 elected women in parliament. “Whatever we hope to achieve, we have to push that much harder.”

10:08

caroline:

hahahah … good catch. got a laugh in the room, too, wonkroom.

10:08

Katherine Gustafson: Adan says she was lucky to be born into a family that gave her the opportunity to learn skills. Then she put her determination to learning those skills.

10:08

caroline: Adan is stressing “determination and hard-headedness,” that “the more you do the more you understand that more needs to be done”

10:08

caroline: AND, that we have to learn from our mistakes.

10:09

caroline:

Interesting — she’s saying that her father believed in her and that left to her grandmother and mother, she probably wouldn’t have gone to school. Makes the point again that we have to inform both men and women about the importance of these issues.

10:10

caroline: Oooh, Sawyer just directed our attention to a video submitted on YouTube, a question by a woman watching this session online.

10:10

caroline:

Cool. Technology.

10:11

caroline: Her question, appropriately enough, asked how technology was going to help advance women’s empowerment.

10:11

caroline: Verveer is talking about how some women across the globe are learning literacy through their cell phones! Needing to learn to read and write in order to text-message.

10:13

caroline: Zoellick is making a big point here — that technology isn’t just about cell phones and internet access, that basic energy and electricity services are of utmost importance!

10:14

caroline: The numbers and statistics that are flying out of these panelists’ brains are staggering (and dizzying!)

10:15

caroline:

Salbi is a tough cookie, man. She is clearly a force to be reckoned with. (In a good way.)

10:17

caroline: Sawyer’s digging through her notes, clearly getting ready to spring the next tough question.

10:17

caroline: She’s asking questions that viewers texted in during the session.

10:17

caroline: Pretty cool.

10:18

caroline: Tillerson is talking now about whether his involvement “can move the needle” in areas in need

10:18

caroline: that there are already places that have programs in place that are creating results

10:19

Katherine Gustafson:

Salbi: “This is not just a third-world issue. This is a global issue.”

10:20

caroline:

And here comes Salbi with another killer rebuttal … that this is a global issue and NOT just in the “third” world

10:20

caroline: citing stats about domestic abuse in the US

10:20

Katherine Gustafson: She makes the point that 1 in 4 women in the US face domenstic violence. This gets applause from the audience.

10:20

caroline:

… and the audience applauded her yet again!!! This crowd is smitten.

10:21

Erin: 21 kids?!?!?!?!?

10:23

Erin: Sorry for the outburst. One of the panelists just said she met a woman who was pregnant with her 21st child. No offense to the Duggars, but the panelist’s point was that this is abuse and that this woman needed help to escape her situation.

10:23

Steve Enders: empowering and educating women is the best long-term goal. short term: provide water, midwives, screening for cervical/breast cancer… basic things

10:24

caroline:

Right, Steve. Those were Adan’s most critical points that she feels need immediate address.

10:25

caroline: Ha! Sawyer just announced “free period” — as in her grade-school free-for-all time

10:25

caroline: I prefer “free period”. Was hoping some hop-scotch would ensue …

10:26

caroline: as in: five final minutes to make last comments/points

10:27

Katherine Gustafson: Salbi is tlaking about a Congolese women survivor of rape who lived in the woods eating leaves in for three years to stay saf. Then she got educated, got training, and spoke out on rape.

10:27

Katherine Gustafson: BUt she said “Don’t think of me as a victim. I’m a survivor.”

10:28

Steve Enders: Amazing how that “survivor” can keep focus on call for education for women in the congo after all that.

10:28

Katherine Gustafson: Salbi: “If she able to rebuild her life from zero, so can we. We can invest in women.
If she can speak out, so can we.
If we can dance, so can we.”

10:28

caroline:

Lordy, yet ANOTHER round of applause for Zainib Salbi, the only person on the stage who’s brought a reaction out of this crowd!

10:28

caroline: A rock star of women’s rights, that Salbi.

10:28

Katherine Gustafson: Salbi is great! I interviewed her and she was so forthcoming and dynamic.

10:29

caroline:

Ha, the CEO of Goldman Sachs just said, “At the risk of sounding like too much of a finance man … which I am.”

10:29

Katherine Gustafson: She said the question she always asks when looking at a situation, even buying a dress, is “where are the women?”

10:29

caroline: Um, yes Blankfein. You very much are.

10:29

Katherine Gustafson: Salbi, I mean.

10:30

Katherine Gustafson: When buying a dress, the question is: where are the women in the production line? Are they slaves or are they running the business?

10:30

caroline: He admitted that there have been mistakes but that there is plenty to be done. Sawyer nods her head and smiles.

10:31

Erin: Another editorial comment: “Sexual Slave”. That’s a term you don’t think about a lot in the U.S. The head of Women for Women is talking about how wars are conducted through rape and slavery in certain countries; she used the term “sexual slave.” If that happened in this country, it would be the lead story on the news for weeks and we’d be up in arms. (Jaycee Dugard, anyone?) I wonder why we don’t seem to care as much when it happens somewhere else.

10:31

Katherine Gustafson: sawyer: If we can succed on this, we’ll ahve invested fire for the second time.

10:31

caroline: Session is closing: Sawyer is telling a anecdote about being in Afghanistan after the Taliban left and women rushing up to her saying, “Where have you been? We have been waiting for you for years.”

10:31

caroline: And was it just me or did anyone else see her get a little choked up as she said it?

10:32

caroline: And with that … the session ends, there’s a short applause that can’t compare to last night’s Obamania, and guests rush the breakfast buffet

10:32

Katherine Gustafson: Edna says women need “Basic things that you take for granted”

10:33

caroline: I’m pretty sure that guy just put a bagel in his pocket and opened a yogurt at the same time.

10:33

caroline: Nicely done.

10:33

Katherine Gustafson: Sawyer wonders what we can do to signal to people in the US that women mattter.

10:33

Katherine Gustafson: Edna Adan says “the most effective bullet” is education and empowerment

10:34

caroline: And that’s it for now! We’ll be back with more live blogging soon and special stories popping up throughout the day. Don’t miss Katherine’s related feature article on this very issue — will be up on the Tonic.com homepage shortly!

10:34

Steve Enders: Stay tuned and at 1pm ET today we’ll bring you another live blog for the next big session on innovation with al gore.

10:34

caroline: ”See” you soon …

10:34