From: HULIQ
Submitted by Anissa Ford on 2010-09-25
Nearly 12 months ago, Google asked people and institutions around the world to submit ideas that could change the world. Google’s mission was to help make those ideas reality with financial support.
The top five winners of Project 10 to the 100 will receive a combined $10 million from Google in order to implement their ideas.
Khan Academy University wants to make educational content available online for free. Google will give the Academy $2 million to create more courses and translate their core library into the world’s most widely spoken languages.
FIRST, a non-profit educational organization that promotes science and math education want to enhance its curriculum. Google has donated $3 million to FIRST to develop and implement new student-driven robotics team fundraising programs that will empower and encourage more student teams to participate in FIRST.
Public.Resource.org wants to make government more transparent. Google will assist their efforts with a $2 milllion donation that aims to make all primary legal materials in the U.S. available to all people.
Shweeb wants to drive innovation in public transport. Shweeb is a concept for short to medium distance, urban personal transport using human powered vehicles on a monorail. Google will fund the project $1 million for research and development testing of Shweeb’s technology. Soon, Shweeb will announce a location for its first human powered transit rail.
African Institute for Mathematical Science is a center for math and science education in Cape Town. The program wants to provide quality education to African students. Google is donating $ 2 million to fund the opening of additional AIMS centers which will promote graduate level math and science study in Africa.
Project 10 to the 100 winner chosen from 150K ideas
Overall, more than 150,000 ideas were submitted for Project 10 to the 100. The 5 finalists were chosen out of a total 16.
10 to the 100 is another way of expressing the number “googol”–a one followed by one hundred zeros. Project 10 to the 100 is a reflection of Google’s purpose and mission as a search engine: “to produce those kinds of (numeric) scalable results by harnessing users’ insights and creativity.”
Google determined winners by accepting individual entries and later identifying those individuals with companies, organizations, and institutions with which they were affiliated.
Google decided which entries were winning ideas by examining how deeply the largest number of people possible would be positively affected. They also looked at how long it would take to implement the project, how simple and cost-effective the project is, and how long the idea would impact a community or the world.