Google To Fund Ideas That Will Change the World

Peace Corps Online writes "This week, as part of their tenth birthday celebration, Google announced the launch of project ten to the 100th, a project designed to inspire and fund the development of ideas that will help to change the world. They have called on members of the public to share their ideas for solutions that will help as many people as possible in the global community, offering a $10 million prize pool to back the development of those chosen as winners. 'We know there are countless brilliant ideas that need funding and support to come to fruition,' says Bethany Poole, Project Marketing Manager for Google. 'These ideas can be big or small, technology-driven or brilliantly simple — but they need to have impact.' The project's website asks entrants to classify their ideas into one of eight categories listed as Community, Opportunity, Energy, Environment, Health, Education, Shelter and Everything Else. Members of the public have until October 20th to submit their ideas by completing a simple form and answering a few short questions about their idea."

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Re:ok

[Surt]

I think the goal here is to give some funding to profit-losing ideas that help people. It's not hard to get profit-making ideas funded.

Reminds me of Microsoft's Imagine Cup

[gringer]

This reminds me of Microsoft's Competition:

http://www.microsoft.com/nz/imaginecup09/about.aspx

In 2009, the Imagine Cup challenges the world's most talented students to "Imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems facing us today."

I find the goal a bit too broad for a challenging competition, there are also a few requirements, some of which I find a bit odd:

• Use of a Mobile device
• Implementation or consumption of a XML Web Service
• .NET Framework 2.0 or later;
• Visual Studio family (Express, Standard, Professional, or Team System) for development