How Can I Change the World? Answer:

Google, shaping the world?

A few posts back I wrote, “What Can I Do for the World?”

Google has answered me!

They’ve decided to hold a world-wide contest of sorts and fun the winners from a 10-million dollar pool. Google will accept entries from any of 25 languages up to October 20, 2008. They’ll pick 100 ideas as semi-finalists and then let the world vote to pick the winner(s). There may be more than one winner, they mention 1-5. If 5 winners, each will have 2 million dollars allocated toward funding their idea.

You need not have the technical knowledge to implement your idea. What you will gain is your 15 minutes of fame as Google will publicize winners I’m sure.

Do you have what it takes to come up with one of the top 100 ideas for helping others?

Your idea will need to fit in one of the following categories.

Community: How can we help connect people, build communities and protect unique cultures?
Opportunity: How can we help people better provide for themselves and their families?
Energy: How can we help move the world toward safe, clean, inexpensive energy?
Environment: How can we help promote a cleaner and more sustainable global ecosystem?
Health: How can we help individuals lead longer, healthier lives?
Education: How can we help more people get more access to better education?
Shelter: How can we help ensure that everyone has a safe place to live?
Everything else: Sometimes the best ideas don’t fit into any category at all.

Here is the Google site set up for idea submissions. Get yours submitted now! Multiple entries allowed!

Project 10 to the 100th Degree

One Comment, Add YOUR comment or Ping

Jason Avery

I believe we can change the world in 1 week using stickers. If you start with 1 person handing 6 people a sticker and saying you respect them as human beings and the world is a better place with them in it. then each of those 6 people give another 6 people a sticker ad so on and so on for a week I think we can touch millios of people Then we will realize that we are all in this world together and just by doing some small things we can change the world. some changes might be cleaning up our streets and forests. Just imagine what would happen if every body in the world picked up 1 piece of litter and put it in the trash once a day for a week I am no mathematician and cant predict how much garbage would be picked up but I would think it could change the world. Just imagine what a sticker couldpossibly do.

Nov 16th, 2008