Google has launched a number of new sites as part of its 10-year anniversary celebrations and one of the websites that caught my eye (well, a site that a friend flagged to me) is Project 10^100, which has been described as "a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible."
Google explain more about their thinking behind the project:
"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 project is called Project 10^100 because 10100 is another way of expressing the number "googol," a one followed by one hundred zeroes. This expresses Google's goal of achieving great results through smart technology that starts small and scales dramatically over time to have a tremendous long-term impact. Project 10100 is a similar attempt to produce those kinds of scalable results by harnessing Google's users' insights and creativity.
It's a great idea as no one knows what ideas would help the most people. Google's project has the premise that maybe its hundreds of millions of users might.
Google said that it would post a selection of the 100 best ideas and ask the public to choose 20 semi-finalists. Following this selection process an advisory board will select up to five final ideas.
I've got an idea that I'm thinking of submitting (more on this very soon), but in the meantime here is the official promo video:
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