As Global Entrepreneurship Week activities continue in 123 countries around the world, the updates keep pouring in, including:

• The Huffington Post opened up Global Entrepreneurship Week with a piece from GEW president Jonathan Ortmans -- "A Smarter World by Startups.'
• Two Boston-area entrepreneurs took top honors for Startup Open, a competition for the most promising startups created between GEW 2010 and GEW 2011.
• The Washington Post points out a few DC-area events and activities to keep an eye on during Global Entrepreneurship Week
• Somerset Community College student Timothy Phelps is competing for a free trip around the world as part of Your Big Year--and he is also working with local Kentucky business owners to bring Global Entrepreneurship Week to the SCC campus
• A couple of Maryland high school students are competing in the finals of the World Series of Innovation, held by the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship
• Kansas City has a lot going on during Global Entrepreneurship Week... which makes sense considering it's the home of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

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