Last week, Google announced the winners of Project 10^100, their two-year call for ideas and search to change the world by helping as many people as possible.. People from more than 170 countries submitted more than 150,000 ideas by October 2008 and public voting started in October, 2009 from the top 16 big ideas. The five ideas that received the most votes are the winners of Project 10^100 and will each receive funds from Google to further their ideas and endeavors. The total given away by Google is $10 million and each winner’s project is a multi-year effort ensuring this is not the last we’ll hear of these amazing organizations. Here is the list of winners from their blog:
Idea: Make educational content available online for free
Project funded: The Khan Academy is a non-profit educational organization that provides Project 10^100 high-quality, free education to anyone, anywhere via an online library of more than 1,600 teaching videos. We are providing $2 million to support the creation of more courses and to enable the Khan Academy to translate their core library into the world’s most widely spoken languages.Idea: Enhance science and engineering education
Project funded: FIRST is a non-profit organization that promotes science and math education around the world through team competition. Its mission is to inspire young people to be science and technology leaders by giving them real world experience working with professional engineers and scientists. We are providing $3 million to develop and jump start new student-driven robotics team fundraising programs that will empower more student teams to participate in FIRST.Idea: Make government more transparent
Project funded: Public.Resource.Org is a non-profit organization focused on enabling online access to public government documents in the United States. We are providing $2 million to Public.Resource.Org to support the Law.Gov initiative, which aims to make all primary legal materials in the United States available to all.Idea: Drive innovation in public transport
Project funded: Shweeb is a concept for short to medium distance, urban personal transport, using human-powered vehicles on a monorail. We are providing $1 million to fund research and development to test Shweeb’s technology for an urban setting.Idea: Provide quality education to African students
Project funded: The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences(AIMS) is a center for math and science education and research in Cape Town, South Africa. AIMS’ primary focus is a one-year bridge program for recent university graduates that helps build skills and knowledge prior to master’s and Ph.D. study. We are providing $2 million to fund the opening of additional AIMS centers to promote graduate level math and science study in Africa.
With more contests and opportunities out there for crowd-sourced ideas to get funding, the question becomes, what big idea do you have to change the world?
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