Google Project 10^100 was launched on September 24, 2008 in commemoration of the incorporation of Google on September 1998. The term 10^100 is simply a numerical expression of an extremely large number, Googol, where the name Google was coined from. On Google’s 10th birthday, the company has committed to finance a $10,000,000 project that could greatly help more people. Out of more than 150,000 gathered proposals from companies and individuals around the world, the final set of projects to be selected was sapped down to 16 themes with discrete templates on how to implement them using the $10 Million funding.
The following criteria were used by more than 3,000 Googlers in offices around the world in reviewing submitted proposals:
The following criteria were used by more than 3,000 Googlers in offices around the world in reviewing submitted proposals:
- 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 your idea?
- Longevity: How long will the idea's impact last?
Collect and organize the world's urban data
Category : Community
Support efforts to
organize, analyze and make accessible online the world's urban and population data. A majority of the global human population lives in cities, and more people continue to migrate into urban centers. 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. Users interested in this area submitted ideas ranging from creating a website where residents can text or upload photos that highlight city issues to building a comprehensive database of city projects and using mobile phones to collect information about, and eventually be able to predict traffic and congestion patterns.Vote for this idea
Build better banking tools for everyone
Category : Opportunity
Partner with banks and technology companies to increase the reach of financial services across the world. Users submitted numerous ideas that seek to improve the quality of people's lives by offering new, more convenient and more sophisticated banking services. Specific suggestions include inexpensive village-based banking kiosks for developing countries; an SMS solution geared toward mobile networks; and ideas for implementing banking services into school curriculums.Vote for this idea
Encourage positive media depictions of engineers and scientists
Category : Education
Support groups and programs that promote positive depictions of engineers and scientists in popular media. Generally speaking, career services are only offered in earnest during university years, when many opportunities have already passed by. These proposals are designed to encourage more young people to pursue careers in this field by supporting groups that work toward enco uraging positive images of engin eering and science in pop culture. Our users submitted a number of suggestions for making engineering and science "c ool," including online libraries of "day-in-the-life of an engineer" vi deos, an online channel devoted entirely to IT news, live performances with massive robots, and te lling inspirational real-life stories about how individual engineers and scientists have changed the world. This proposal will require finding the right public advocacy groups to partner with in pursuing these objectives.Vote for this idea
Work toward socially conscious tax policies
Category : Environment
Fund the most promising efforts to make the tax system more transpar ent and better at supporting societal sustainability and development. This idea is inspired by many tax-related ideas from users around the world, including: replacing income taxes with smart consumption taxes; tax discounts for citizens who participate in socially beneficial works; and giving citizens more visibility and control into the allocation of their tax dollars. User ideas in this category highlight tax policy as a perhaps surprisingly fertile area in which intelligent, data-driven analysis could make a huge difference in the effectiveness of the public sector.Vote for this idea
Provide quality education to African students
Category : Education
Support efforts to increase young Africans' access to quality education. This idea's many user-submitted inspirations include an initiative to provide quality education and facilities to children who lack access; giving leadership training to outstanding young people who will comprise tomorrow's African leaders; and providing an online networking space for knowledge sharing and collaboration among teachers in Africa.
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Make government more transparent
Category : Community
Create a website that enables people from any country or municipality to e asily learn about the workings of their government, and rally their fellow citizens to take action to improve it. Numerous user ideas embraced variations on the theme of governmental transparency, with specific proposals ranging from publishing details of proposed laws and politicians' voting records to making public budgets searchable online and leveragin g social networks to let communities make their voices heard by their representatives by voting on pressing issues.Vote for this idea
Create real-time natural crisis tracking system
Category : Community
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. Numerous user ideas embraced variations on the theme of governmental transparency, with specific proposals ranging from publishing details of proposed laws an d politicians' voting records to mak ing public budgets searchable online and leveraging soci al networks to let communities make their voices heard by their representatives by voting on pressing issues.
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Help social entrepreneurs drive change
Category : Opportunity
Create a fund to support social entrepreneurship. This idea was inspir ed by a number of user proposals focused on "social entrepreneurs" -- individuals and organizations who use entrepreneurial techniques to build ventures focused on attacking social problems and fomenting change. Specific relevant ideas include establishing schools that teach entrepreneurial skills in rural areas; supporting entrepreneurs in underdeveloped communities; and creating an entity to provide capital and trainin g to help entrepreneurs build viable businesses and catalyze sustained community change.
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Make educational content available online for free
Category : Education
Make educational and course materials more accessible online to students worldwide. Lots of educational content is not indexed or accessible on the public web. Various users have proposed finding ways to help content owners put formerly exclusive content online, including offline materials (lectures, textbooks, videotaped workshops) and limited-access materials (scholarly papers, research dissertations); help teachers themselves become more available online (access to online profs, 24/7 homework help, cross-country study groups); and to make all this material and academic help accessible through both computer and mobile plat forms.
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Drive innovation in public transport
Category : Energy
Develop new transportation technologies to help move more people with less energy, greater efficiency and fewer casualties. Millions of people still use methods of transportation invented a hundred or more years ago. Even small improvements in speed, safety, cost and environmental efficiency would have a large impact on people's lives, and on the planet as a whole. With such improvements in mind, transportation-minde d users submitted ideas ranging from a hydrogen-powered bicycle to an airship optimized for commuter travel. By aligning with and supporting organizations that share these goals, this proposal aims to drive innovation in this sector a nd make the best of these ideas a reality.
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Create more efficient landmine removal programs
Category : Shelter
Fund global organizations that are developing efficient strategies for lan dmine detection and removal. Landmines remain a significant global problem. 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 c ivilians, and nearly half of those are children.* Effective new landmine-removal programs offer a wide range of societal benefits beyond the obvious development of mine-free areas, including the repatriation of refugees and better distribution of emergency aid. Numerous suggestions for this topic include robotic, human and animal-facilitated detection strategies. *www.icbl.orgVote for this idea
Create real-world issue reporting system
Category : Community
Build an issue-reporting website that lets people report problems to proper authorities. When software testers find errors, they generally submit them to a tool which automatically routes them to the right team to be fixed. Implementing proposals for this ide a might involve creating an analogous system for the real world that lets anyone report a problem of any kind (e.g., a dangerous pothole), and routes problems it deems sufficiently important to the proper authorities (e.g., the relevant road agency). The aim would be to incorporate all the niche applications that users suggested, including reporting crimes to the police and environmental issues to local governments.Vote for this idea
Enhance science and engineering education
Category : Education
Support initiatives that enhanc e young people's engineering a nd science education. Users fro m many countries agreed that encouraging science education was an ideal way to insure the brightest future for technology development itself. Specific ideas ranged from building a virtual science lab and a live multiplayer math game to putting Lego robots and local high-tech professionals in schools.
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Create genocide monitoring and alert system
Category : Community
Build and refine tools capable of disseminating genocide-related m a pping and related information in order to save lives. Much of the necessary technology and data-gathering methodology already exists bot h for general crisis mapping and for early warning systems capable of preventing mass atrocities. A key remaining step is to make this data more widely available to strengthen international aid agency coordination, improve resource allocation, develop timely policy and help evaluate current humanitarian practices.
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Promote health monitoring and data analysis
Category : Health
Predict and minimize medical problems and emergencies through real-time tracking of individuals' health data and analysis of historical data. Several ideas submitted in multiple languages recommend this concept, offering various ideas about which types of monitors and devices to use; which vital signs to measure (with var ying levels of invasiveness); which diseases and conditions to track; and so on. The idea could work both in the developed world (through wearable, mobile or in-home devices) and in the developing world (via publicly accessible locations and devices ), and the data could be used both to track individuals' health status and to spot community trends and prevent disease outbreaks.
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