vIndianz.com (Aug. 19, 2009) — Google is finally promising to start its “Project 10 to the 100th” competition within a month or just in time for its 11th anniversary. Project 10 to the 100th is a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible.
Google said, “Project 10 to the 100th is an attempt to solicit ideas that will change the world. We have committed $10 million to fund up to five ideas selected by our advisory board.
“We received over 150,000 ideas from users which far surpassed our expectations,” said Jamie Wood, a Google spokesman.
Wood promised that Google would announce the next phase of the competition within a month. That will likely involve the release of 100 proposals for the public to vote on and choose 20 finalists, from which a Google board will choose the five lucky winners.
The process to join in this project is simple. Send your idea by October 20th. By voting- they’ll post a selection of 100 ideas and ask you, the public, to choose twenty semi-finalists. Then an advisory board will select up to five final ideas. And the last they will bring these ideas to life by committing $10 million to implement these projects.
They ask you to put your idea into one of the following categories and consider the evaluation criteria below.
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.
Criteria:
* Reach: How many people would this idea affect?
* Depth: How deeply are people impacted? How urgent is the need?
* Attainability: Can this idea be implemented within a year or two?
* Efficiency: How simple and cost-effective is your idea?
* Longevity: How long will the idea’s impact last?
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