I'm quite fascinated to see how this turns out. Late last year Google launched Project 10tothe100, a "call for ideas to change the
world by helping as many people as possible". More than 150,000 ideas from over 170 countries were submitted. Google have grouped them into sixteen broad ideas, each inspired by numerous individual ideas, which are open for public vote:
Promote health monitoring and data analysis
Enhance science and engineering education
Create real-world issue reporting system
Create Genocide monitoring and alert system
Work towards socially conscious tax policies
Build better banking tools for everyone
Collect and organise the world's urban data
Encourage positive media depictions of engineers and scientists
Help social entrepreneurs drive change
Make government more transparent
Provide quality education to African students
Create real-time natural crisis tracking system
Build real-time user reported news service
Drive innovation in public transport
Make educational content available online for free
Create more efficient landmine removal programmes
Clicking through to show the 'suggestions that inspired this idea' is the really intriguing bit ("Create a single world bank or supra-national currency, uniform rules and transparent public accounting", anyone?). Voting ends on October 8th. Like I say, I'm fascinated to see how it turns out. So go vote, and let's find out…
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