Google Project 10^100 update ‘within a month’

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.

project_10-100 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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Google Project 10^100 update ‘within a month’

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