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Project 10^100 Winners

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

Friday, September 24, 2010
13 years ago18,106 views

>> http://www.project10tothe100.com

---- Background: ----

<<Here are the categories in which we'll be considering ideas.

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.>>

<<We've narrowed 154,000 submissions down to 16 top ideas.>>

---- Winners: ----

<<Idea: Make educational content available online for free

Project funded: The Khan Academy is a non-profit educational organization that provides 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 Masters and PhD study. We are providing $2 million to fund the opening of additional AIMS centers to promote graduate level math and science study in Africa.>>

<<Q: Google originally said that users would be able to vote on 100 ideas. Why are there only 16?
A: Each of the 16 finalist ideas actually represents a much larger number of related ideas. Ultimately, we recognized that many of the ideas we'd received were similar and could be strengthened by being combined with other ideas to create a new approach to solving the big problems that users wanted to tackle. >>

DPic [PersonRank 10]

13 years ago #

I should be excited, but it's been so long i'm now kind of underwhelmed.

DPic [PersonRank 10]

13 years ago #

[put at-character here]Philipp, i meant because Google took so long, not you, in case that wasn't 100% clear haha =]

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