Google is calling for ideas to help the world, to be submitted by October 20th.

Voting among 20 semifinalists will begin in January.

Google will put up $10 million US to help bring these ideas to fruition.

The criteria, copied from Google's site, where more info is available, are:

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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-- theircompetitor, Sep 24 2008

Google's call for ideas http://www.cnn.com/....project/index.html
[theircompetitor, Sep 24 2008]

Actual site for submision http://www.project1...e100.com/index.html
[theircompetitor, Sep 24 2008]

//"These ideas can be big or small, technology-driven or brilliantly simple -- but they need to have impact,"//

I nominate "Vegetable Peeler Exchange Program" for our site's submission.
-- phundug, Sep 24 2008


I'm going for Anatomically Correct Campus for both health and education :)
-- theircompetitor, Sep 24 2008


I'm going to submit my "Extra hour in bed for people born in the winter" - this would benefit about half the world's population.
-- hippo, Sep 25 2008


hmm... "Air Chariot" and "Flavoured Exhaust" from my collection.

-- FlyingToaster, Sep 26 2008



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