Google recently asked the global public for ideas to address the following societal issues:
- 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.
Thousands of people from more than 170 countries submitted more than 150,000 (or around 10^5.2) ideas. Voting is complete and Google will announce the winning big ideas in the near future.
What other answers can we dream up and enact together?
