summit image Day Two has wrapped at the Social Good Summit and we’ve got plenty to report. It was another exciting day with some interesting conversations around media, tech, women’s issues and corporations.

There were some great highlights from Day Two, which we’ve summed up for you here. If you’re interested in following what’s happening at the Summit, be sure to join us online at our livestream.

Announcements

Tennis star Serena Williams got onstage with UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake to announce that she will be UNICEF’s newest Good Will Ambassador. “We’re going to work her to death,” Lake joked. “This might be the end of her tennis career!” Williams will help represent UNICEF worldwide and will embark on help and good will missions to areas in need. “Playing tennis, I work hard every day … there’s no time off,” Williams said. “I want to be the best at what I do and whether I’m playing tennis or anything else, I want to stand out and make a lasting impression.” Lake responded with two words: “Big heart.”

Beth Comstock, GE’s Chief Marketing Officer and SVP, announced that in addition to GE’s Ecomagination and Health Imagination challenges, the company will facilitate the creation of a “super database” of information around cancer treatment. Comstock hopes the database will be populated by scientists, drug companies and everyday users to help turn cancer from a fatal disease, to a livable chronic disease to ultimately non-existent.

Talking Points

Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel took the stage for a Q&A with Mashable founder and CEO Pete Cashmore to talk about new media and ethics. Wiesel, a confessed Luddite, spoke on how technology is changing the world by creating global communities, changing how information is received and remembered, and how technology is reinventing the publishing industry (though Wiesel still prefers to read books and write by hand).

LIVESTRONG had its own panel, where founder Lance Armstrong and president and CEO, Doug Ulman spoke about how the little yellow wristband made such a big difference. Armstrong said they originally didn’t know what to do with the bands, but that they soon took on great significance. Ulman said the bands helped democratize philanthropy and de-stigmatize cancer as a taboo subject. The bands created a sort of global community around cancer awareness which LIVESTRONG’s social media presence has helped to develop.

Ericsson hosted a panel on how social media is helping refugee communities. Often times digital tools can help displaced people feel like they belong or to bring families back together. “Being able to see families being physically reunited … The most important part of the job is to make people who are suffering enormously feel like they have lives as close as possible to our lives,” said Antonio Guterres, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

Interesting Stats

Geena Davis took the stage to speak about the portrayal of women in the media. Her institute conducted a study of recent PG-13 movies and found that 81% of characters that held jobs were male. Female characters were rarely shown as scientists, lawyers, medical professionals, politicians or any other position of status. Davis then said that the more hours of television a young girl watches, the fewer options she’ll think she has in life. Davis is an advocate for gender equality and media and hopes that these stats will help move the needle by 2015. “When are we going to get over the idea that it’s shocking that women can do things?” Davis said.

Mandy Moore, Randi Zuckerberg and activist Derrick Ashong held a Facebook town hall to talk about Nothing But Nets and malaria eradication. More than 1 million children die of malaria every year, Ashong said. Nothing But Nets has used their Champions program — tapping celebrities like Moore to raise awareness and advocate — to get serious funding including a $200 million promise from World Bank.

Quote of the Day

“Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.” — Elie Wiesel