Google to Give $10 Million Funding for Organizations
Do you know of an organization that might be able to help implement one of Google’s Project 10^100 ideas? If so, they could be eligible for the $10 million that Google has committed to help fund up to five of the best ideas. Project 10^100 looked to the general public for ideas to change the world by helping as may people as possible. And the response to the call was overwhelming – thousands of people from over 170 countries submitted more than 150 000 ideas.
These are the final 16 ideas:
1) Make government more transparent – Create a website that enables people from any country or municipality to easily learn about the workings of their government, and rally their fellow citizens to take action to improve it.
2) Provide quality education to African students
3) Help social entrepreneurs drive change
4) Create real-time natural crisis tracking system – Make rapid-response crisis-mapping data available to help policymakers better coordinate response efforts during hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis and other natural disasters.
5) Build better banking tools for everyone
6) Collect and organize the world’s urban data – Information about the urban planet is ever more invaluable in helping understand humanity’s impact on our surroundings, thus empowering citizens and helping leaders make better-informed decisions.
7) Work toward socially conscious tax policies
8) Encourage positive media depictions of engineers and scientists
9) Enhance science and engineering education
10) Create real-world issue reporting system
11) Promote health monitoring and data analysis
12) Create genocide monitoring and alert system
13) Drive innovation in public transport – Develop new transportation technologies to help move more people with less energy, greater efficiency and fewer casualties.
14) Make educational content available online for free
15) Build real-time, user-reported news service
16) Create more efficient landmine removal programs – There are an estimated 110 million landmines still active in 70 countries; they have been blamed for over 5,000 casualties annually, ~70% of which are civilians, and nearly half of those are children.* (www.icbl.org)
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