Google is offering $10 million as prize money in a competition aimed at transforming the world’s best ideas into useful products.
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The competition is open to anyone. The seven categories include sustainable energy use, environment, health, education, shelter, encouraging communities, and building opportunities to help people better provide for themselves and their families. An eighth category is simply titled “everything else”.
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.
Ideas can be submitted through a form available on the Project 10 to the 100th website , which poses questions including, “If your idea were to become a reality, who would benefit the most and how?” and “Describe the optimal outcome should your idea be selected and successfully implemented”.
Members of the public have until 20th October to submit their ideas by completing a simple form and answering a few short questions about their idea. Entrants can also include a link to a 30 second video either demonstrating their idea in action or giving a more detailed explanation.
Entries will be accepted in 25 languages and Google have placed no limit on the number of ideas any one individual can share.
An advisory board will work with Google employees to narrow the entrants down to the top 100, with the results to be announced on 27th January, 2009. It will then be up to the public to vote for their favourites before 2nd February when the top 20 ideas will be passed on to a panel of judges to whittle down.
All the best my friends!! I hope atleast one idea in top 20 from OUR INDIANS
