Day 1 @ The Kauffman :Welcoming Remarks : What We Did Together

Jonathan Ortmans, President of the Global Entrepreneurship Week and Scott Cain, Deputy CEO of Make Your Mark give their opening remarks.

This is what the numbers say we did together:

*100 Countries with activities:

- 77 "Official" Countries

- 23 "Unofficial" Countries

*8,882 Partners

*25,022 activities

*3,064,937 participants

* 1 billion reached through web and media

Virtual Success:

* 13,000 members of GEW digital spaces ( Facebook, MySpace, etc)

*11, 057 Blog entries for "Global Entrepreneurship Week"

* unleashingideas.org traffic from 184 countries/territories

*208 blog posts on unleashingideas.org since December 2007

This is just the beginning...Lets make the planet smaller in 2009 !