Google’s Project 10^100, launched last year, called for ideas that would change the world by helping as many people as possible.
The huge response (over 150,000 idea submissions from 170 countries) has been grouped together into the 16 different overall themes or “Big Ideas” set out below:
- Enhance science and engineering education
- Create real-world issue reporting system
- Promote health monitoring and data analysis
- Create genocide monitoring and alert system
- Make government more transparent
- Provide quality education to African students
- Help social entrepreneurs drive change
- Create real-time natural crisis tracking system
- Build better banking tools for everyone
- Collect and organize the world’s urban data
- Work toward socially conscious tax policies
- Encourage positive media depictions of engineers and scientists
- Drive innovation in public transport
- Make educational content available online for free
- Build real-time, user-reported news service
- Create more efficient landmine removal programs
Google have committed $10 million to fund up to five ideas selected by their advisory board. To help identify which of the 16 themes the project’s advisory board should be focusing on they’re asking you to vote for the project you think will create the most positive change. The additional five criteria listed below will be used to select the winning ideas:
Reach: How many people would this idea affect?
Depth: How deeply are people impacted? How urgent is the need?
Attainability: Can this idea be implemented within a year or two?
Efficiency: How simple and cost-effective is the idea?
Longevity: How long will the idea’s impact last
Voting ends on October 8 at which point the five winning projects will be revealed and organisations will be selected to help implement the ideas.
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