Google launched a call for ideas in 2008 called "Project 10 to the 100". The only criteria was that the idea would need to "help the world". They selected 16 of the best ideas and now are asking for the public to vote. Google is committing $10 million to these projects.
While all look amazing, one caught my eye immediately:
Making online educational content
available for free!
available for free!
This is an incredible opportunity for those of us in medical education (and a niche in educational technologies).
Other ideas include:
- Encourage positive media depictions of engineers and scientists
- Build better banking tools for everyone
- Work toward socially conscious tax policies
- Collect and organize the world's urban data
- Create more efficient landmine removal programs
- Drive innovation in public transport
- Build real-time, user-reported news service
- Make educational content available online for free
- Create real-time natural crisis tracking system
- Make government more transparent
- Help social entrepreneurs drive change
- Provide quality education to African students
- Create genocide monitoring and alert system
- Enhance science and engineering education
- Promote health monitoring and data analysis
- Create real-world issue reporting system
