The Authentic Eccentric

As part of their 10th anniversary celebration, Google has just announced its Project 10 to the 100th, a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible. They’re backing this up with $10m in funding, resources and support to the top five ideas that will help the most number of people.

They’re looking for big, audacious ideas to back in the following 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.

The deadline for initial entries is October 20th, 2008, so get moving!

via the always awesome Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped