VOTING FOR 10^100 PROJECT

Last fall we launched Project 10^100, a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible. Your response was overwhelming. Thousands of people from more than 170 countries submitted more than 150,000 (or around 10^5.2) ideas, from general investment suggestions to specific implementation proposals. As we reviewed these submissions, we started noticing lots of similar ideas related to certain broad topics, and decided that combining the best aspects of these individual proposals would produce the most innovative approaches to solving some very pressing problems.

The result is the list you see below of 16 "big ideas," each inspired by numerous individual submissions. Which ones should we make happen? You tell us. Your vote for one of these ideas will help our advisory board choose up to 5 projects to fund, at which point we'll launch an RFP process to identify the organization(s) that are best suited to implementing them.

Thank you to everyone who has chosen to lend your energy to Project 10^100. Your idealism will inspire our own efforts to make these world-changing ideas a reality. So please cast your vote, and help us take this next step toward building a better world. Voting ends October 8, 2009.

Below are the 16 big ideas:


* Encourage positive media depictions of engineers and scientists
* Build better banking tools for everyone
* Work toward socially conscious tax policies
* Collect and organize the world's urban data
* Create more efficient landmine removal programs
* Drive innovation in public transport
* Build real-time, user-reported news service
* Make educational content available online for free
* Create real-time natural crisis tracking system
* Make government more transparent
* Help social entrepreneurs drive change
* Provide quality education to African students
* Create genocide monitoring and alert system
* Enhance science and engineering education
* Promote health monitoring and data analysis
* Create real-world issue reporting system

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LENA MARIA...AMAZING!!

She was born severely handicapped and she was born without arms. Her left leg was only and half size of her right one.
Her talent in music is obvious. Now she is a professional singer. Lena learned to drive at 18 and she designed a reconstructed car according to her special physical condition. She used to control the steering wheel by her feet.
But now she install a control stick to control the functions in the break and acceleration pedal.
Her parents taught her to swim at age 3 and she joined the world champion cup and She broke the records at 18.
She could swim the freestyle very well at 6. Therefore Lena’s potential skill in swimming was inspired. She had good records in swimming and become the swimming representative of Sweden at 15
Lena swam in the World Swimming Cup at 18 broke the records and won four gold medals in butterfly stroke. She loved music since childhood her talent in singing was obvious Though she has no arms. She plays the piano with her feet and sing with the music. After graduating from high school she entered the Music College and Majored in vocal music She was

Lena says she never feels sorry for her handicap because there are so many things to overcome in life. Dealing with her handicap At first we wanted a fork for lena use but Lena used chopsticks with As much flexibly as we did.

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