Could your idea change the world? Tell Google
Submission Deadline: October 20th, 2008.
To celebrate its 10th birthday Google has created Project 10 to the 100th, with US$10 million funding:
Project 10100 is a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible.
Never in history have so many people had so much information, so many tools at their disposal, so many ways of making good ideas come to life. Yet at the same time, so many people, of all walks of life, could use so much help, in both little ways and big.
In the midst of this, new studies are reinforcing the simple wisdom that beyond a certain very basic level of material wealth, the only thing that increases individual happiness over time is helping other people.
In other words, helping helps everybody, helper and helped alike.
The question is: what would help? And help most?
At Google, we don’t believe we have the answers, but we do believe the answers are out there. Maybe in a lab, or a company, or a university — but maybe not.
Maybe the answer that helps somebody is in your head, in something you’ve observed, some notion that you’ve been fiddling with, some small connection you’ve noticed, some old thing you have seen with new eyes.
If you have an idea that you believe would help somebody, we want to hear about it. We’re looking for ideas that help as many people as possible, in any way, and we’re committing the funding to launch them. You can submit your ideas and help vote on ideas from others. Final idea selections will be made by an advisory board.
[Via : Project 10 to the 100th.]
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October 1, 2008 No Comments
Do we start our changes with ourselves?
Britt Bravo wrote recently in her Have Fun • Do Good blog about compassion:
Thing is, you can sign petitions, make donations, organize rallies, and spread the word about do-good things all you want, but if you’re not being kind to the people around you, are you really a changemaker? …
[Via Have Fun • Do Good: 29-Day Giving Challenge Takeaway: Compassion is Hardest to Give.]
And she included this 4.5 minute YouTube video — one that I think we could all do well to view. I hope that next time I’m aggrieved at the neighbours who park inconsiderately or the hoons who race their cars nearby at midnight I think of this video. Thanks Britt.
And what a good way for the organisation who created this video to both spark a change in the world and arouse interest in themselves. Note the subtle, but clear credit at the end of the movie, and consider also the ‘get service’ message that shows up (appropriately) a couple of times in the video itself.
May 21, 2008 No Comments
